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Originally Posted by cthomp81
but you can still hack into them
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You can hack pretty much anything. Wired networks are harder cause you have to have phsyical access to plug into a network but ANYTHING wireless can be hacked. Microsoft once said it servers where C2 compliant as long as it did not have a NIC or a modem in it. Now wouldn't anything without a NIC or a modem be secure anyway lol. Wireless phones have been hacked WITHOUT bluetooth even being on the phone, phones have been cloned also.
I am in the IT field and anyone in the IT field that says thier network can't be hacked is a fool plain and simple. Microsoft has put servers outside thier firewall saying how secure it was and they have also been brought down within 20 minutes of going public saying it can't be hacked. RIM is a network and a wireless network at that which means it can be hacked just like the goverment and pretty much any other network has been hacked in the past and will be hacked in the future. I would like to believe a bank has more security in place than RIM has and they get hacked all the time.
I bet if RIM actually went public and said they have never been hacked and it is impossible to hack them that thier network would go down in under 24 hours. Would be surprised if it made it to 10 hours. You know the new bills that were made to reduce conterfit bills they said they CAN"T be reproduced and within a day maybe 2 guess what they were made and shown to the FBI why cause it was said it couldn't be done. Bluetooth is a very low risk cause you have to be within like 50 feet of the device at best most is 30 feet. Other wireless proticals like "g" you could be hundreds of feet away or across the street. Look at Vonage they are coming out with a portable phone and guess what you can pretty much use that anywhere cause no one seems to know how to secure a wireless network. So with ANY unsecured wireless routers you can jump on someones network and use that phone to call anywhere.
I do not beleive it is a security issue as much as it seems only cause guess what just try to get a laptop without a built in wireless NIC now a days. There is more risk with wireless NICs in laptops cause they can be accessed at farther distances than bluetooth to begin with. After all would you be more likley to have a database on a BB or a laptop? But if people went by it is a security risk we wouldn't have the Internet, wireless PCs, wireless phones, or anything like it. After all if we just shutdown the Internet there would be less security risks wouldn't there? Isn't that where pretty much all virus' are from it is not like the old days where you get them from floppys anymore. The real secure stuff for companies DO NOT have internet access and are segmented from the main network to begin with. If someone stores top secret informantion on a BB they should be shot to begin with.
If security is the issue passwords should also be forced without the need for a BES yes it was said that it is for the BES to lock down and inforce a password policy but than agian couldn't the same BES disable bluetooth????? YES IT CAN AND COULD. If all companies where like RIM and dont do things for security there would be NO Internet, NO wireless ANYTHING. Cause after all isn't being on the Internet alone a security risk?
why blackberry
