Blackberry security risk for ministers

Ministers, MPs and civil servants should not use the popular hand-held Blackberry computers to send and receive confidential information, the secret service AIVD warns in today’s AD. The AIVD says that the machines are not secure enough.


Only the Defence ministry works with Blackberries with extra security, but those have not been approved by the AIVD either, the paper reports.

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