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At today and in the shadow of , BlackBerry reiterated their stance on security and encryption. It's a nuanced position: compliance with legal requests but also protecting their customers' privacy.
A BlackBerry spokesperson said:
BlackBerry abides by lawful access principles — at the end of the day we want to ensure that we're not helping criminals or terrorists. With that said, we don't create backdoors and that's something we stand by.
If you'll recall, after to BlackBerry servers. They "made it clear to the government that that wasn't something they would do."
BlackBerry CEO John Chen that:
Security is what we do. Privacy is what you get. We have the most trusted networks outside of the carriers themselves – it is what we offer and how we think about our business.
BlackBerry stated that they will always comply with lawful legal requests — and declined to comment on their potential involvement with . Additionally, Blackberry declined to comment on if they possess the capability to decrypt the internal storage of the , which uses whole-device encryption. Apple's fight with the FBI has revolved partly around device encryption, which Apple claims is secure enough that they do not have the ability to break into their own devices.
