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Forum: BlackBerry and Mobile Security

08-29-2010, 12:15 PM

Replies: 152

BIS - No Better Security than Web Based Mail

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Posted By CanuckBB

By all means, trust Emoze. By perusing...

By all means, trust Emoze.

By perusing their website, can you tell us who they are? Where they are located?

Most of us have more experience with RIM technologies than the guys answering the...

Forum: BlackBerry and Mobile Security

08-26-2010, 08:27 PM

Replies: 152

BIS - No Better Security than Web Based Mail

Views: 67,656

Posted By CanuckBB

Blackberry.net addresses are not polled. The...

Blackberry.net addresses are not polled. The servers are internal to RIM. When mail hits the mailbox, they are pushed to the handset. Blaberry.net servers communicate with the outside world like...

Forum: BlackBerry and Mobile Security

08-26-2010, 03:43 PM

Replies: 152

BIS - No Better Security than Web Based Mail

Views: 67,656

Posted By CanuckBB

Not sure what you mean here. blackberry.net...

Not sure what you mean here. blackberry.net servers interact with the device through the cell network and the world through port 25. Like every other email server out there.

Time aside, it is...

Forum: BlackBerry and Mobile Security

08-26-2010, 08:31 AM

Replies: 152

BIS - No Better Security than Web Based Mail

Views: 67,656

Posted By CanuckBB

And I'm saying that BIS CAN do SSL. The fact that...

And I'm saying that BIS CAN do SSL. The fact that they don't for certain providers may have more to do with the provider.

For me, the gain in battery life afforded by the BIS push as opposed to...

Forum: BlackBerry and Mobile Security

08-25-2010, 06:38 AM

Replies: 152

BIS - No Better Security than Web Based Mail

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Posted By CanuckBB

Nokia does not have servers contacting mail...

Nokia does not have servers contacting mail servers. That makes a difference.

You're right, we don't know. But given the fact that the BIS servers do us SSL, I'd speculate that there is a reason...

Forum: BlackBerry and Mobile Security

08-24-2010, 02:28 PM

Replies: 152

BIS - No Better Security than Web Based Mail

Views: 67,656

Posted By CanuckBB

Did you ever think that the choice may not be...

Did you ever think that the choice may not be RIM's, but the email providers not wanting the BIS servers hammering at the SSL connection?

Forum: BlackBerry and Mobile Security

08-20-2010, 08:03 PM

Replies: 152

BIS - No Better Security than Web Based Mail

Views: 67,656

Posted By CanuckBB

But you still end up with no encryption between...

But you still end up with no encryption between BIS and HH. That's the one to truly complain about.

Forum: BlackBerry and Mobile Security

08-20-2010, 05:24 AM

Replies: 152

BIS - No Better Security than Web Based Mail

Views: 67,656

Posted By CanuckBB

Yet, the overwhelming majority of users of those...

Yet, the overwhelming majority of users of those email services will read their email through the web interface on their computer.

Do you realize how much email traffic is 'recipes', mundane and...

Forum: BlackBerry and Mobile Security

08-19-2010, 03:08 PM

Replies: 152

BIS - No Better Security than Web Based Mail

Views: 67,656

Posted By CanuckBB

The 'consumer' doesn't care. The 'consumer'...

The 'consumer' doesn't care.

The 'consumer' routinely access Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail and the like from their browser. They don't care about SSL. They cae about being able to send a recipe to aunt...

Forum: BlackBerry and Mobile Security

08-19-2010, 12:42 PM

Replies: 152

BIS - No Better Security than Web Based Mail

Views: 67,656

Posted By CanuckBB

And 99.9% of BIS don't actually give a crap about...

And 99.9% of BIS don't actually give a crap about it. They get their Yahoo, Gmail and Hotmail through the web. They use the simple setup on the phone to do their email setup. For most, SSL is not a...

Forum: BlackBerry and Mobile Security

08-19-2010, 06:55 AM

Replies: 152

BIS - No Better Security than Web Based Mail

Views: 67,656

Posted By CanuckBB

However, when I access mail.yahoo.com, it is...

However, when I access mail.yahoo.com, it is always a clear http connection. accessing htps://mail.yahoo.com it gives me a cert error and dumps me back to http://mail.yahoo.com. So Yahoo has no...

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