BlackBerry Phones Could Threaten Security : UAE telecommunition
Category Wireless | Monday, July 26th, 2010The United Arab Emirates’ telecommunition watchdog says BlackBerry smartphones are a potential threat to the country’s national security and it is seeking changes in how the devices operate.
Authorities’ alarm over the phones comes a year after the Middle East country’s biggest state-run mobile operator was caught encouraging unwitting BlackBerry users to install software on the devices that could allow outsiders to peer inside. The government has never made fully clear what happened in that case.