What if Germany and France had been victims of espionage because their leaders failed to detach from their iPhone or their personal Blackberry? The Tagegesspiel Berlin newspaper, citing government sources, says that the cellular Chancellor Angela Merkel spied on by the NSA was not the presidential phone but which has as president of the Christian Democratic Party CDU.
German press agency says, however, that the phone used was the “official” one prepared to be ultra-safe. In fact, the German government has for some months about Blackberry Z10 (which cost about 2,500 euros per unit).
In France, officials have a specially encrypted phones built by Thales for the state, whose price is 3,300 euros each. According to the National Security Agency Information Systems of France, these devices can send secret messages classified as “national security”.
The problem is that in practice, these special phones require rigorous protocols use. The cell Teorem (Thales) for example require about 30 seconds to make a call, because the keys to be used, which may annoy someone accustomed to faster methods.
are rulers, businessmen, bankers or journalists, and even if they bought a special phone “everyone has at least one iPhone or a Blackberry,” says Robert Avril, Cryptofrance company founder, who launched the first mobile encrypted in 2008 .
“all matter little awareness sessions that are made, that managers listen carefully, once you go home say it’s just something that happens to others. We keep telling our clients to stop having professional conversations and to send emails with normal smartphones, “he adds.
Severalcybercrime experts stress that one of the most hated leaders encryption system Teorem was former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, while the current president, Francois Hollande, has retained its smartphone after coming to power, although the encrypted devices available margin.
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