This is great. A real alternative to surveillance tainted iOS and Android.
In addition to this, there's a new Firefox OS phone coming soon (I hope).
In addition to this, there's a new Firefox OS phone coming soon (I hope).
Open source is nice, but it doesn't solve anything in terms of government or corporate spy groups snooping. The cat is out of the bag on that one and I don't think they're going to magically stop spending billion or trillions snooping anytime soon. Google/facebook/twitter/microsoft make billions off of spying on customer behavior and serving them ads. Governments have a vested interest in either citizen safety or maintaining power by trying to control the population.
In either case, there is just too much money and power for spying to ever go away or become less sophisticated.
That's internet and wireless surveillance. That's a lot less than the direct access to the phone that closed source OSs may provide.
Doesn't have to be that way, you know. You can use VPN, SSH, OTR or any other way to secure your communications, if the endpoints can be trusted at least to some extent.
Ergo, Blackberry is not a real alternative not from a security perspective but from a usability perspective.
I'm not saying this is correct, only trying to codify the public perception for your benefit.
The feeling I get is that it occurs to very few people that Blackberry could even be an alternative. I doubt that many people would notice if they went under tomorrow.
The whole thing got very confusing, the customers data might still be safe and secure, but it's not really an area where doubt and stories about the opposite are easily brushed over.