“Truly a case of the biter bit.” That was the response of computer security researcher Ross Anderson at the University of Cambridge to reports last week that the French national security agency (SGND) has banned government ministers from using their BlackBerry PDAs. The agency says phone calls and emails routed through BlackBerry servers in the US and UK are too easy to intercept.
Leaving aside the fact that BlackBerry maker Research In Motion has its servers in the UK and Canada, not the US, Anderson is bemused by the SGND’s sudden concern for digital security. It was French opposition to…
