When Security Is Not An Advantage

Privacy is really an intangible asset which value is difficult to overestimate. Common people rarely think on the issue while their conversations or data transmissions are secure. But when some of the info which they view as a secret is reveled at some local porno-site or is used against them by authorities, they immediately remember about their rights and begin to cry about infringements and violations.

Smartphone users got to think that security and concern for private information is one of the most valuable smartphone advantages and an option to look for.  Not any smartphone possess that extremely useful feature but if one does like RIM’s Blackberry for example, it is powerful enough to promote even a relatively old gadget with an obsolete OS and limited functionalities when compared to the current line-up of modern Android and Apple smartphone offers.

Now at stake is the following dilemma: what’s more important consumer privacy or national security? At least a range of governments are not limited by some reasonable considerations when presenting their natural strive for more control in such an unequivocal manner.

In fact, most part of the mentioned  cases when some scandal private details have been revealed  is due to some pushful journalist or blogger looking for some juicy fact in order to get some short-lasting fame, or  an inability to buy the necessary cooperation from both sides. It is hardly doubtful that Western governments do not have any means to eavesdrop people whose activity or way of life they find extremely interesting.  But either they have enough skills to decode Blackberry’s security protections themselves  or they were very persuasive when offering RIM to share its access to the customers’ personal messages and letters.  At the same time Western law-enforcement agencies have more chances to enquire about some personal data just due to the fact they have an access to servers of the leading mail services such as Yahoo or Hotmail or Gmail, as all of the above are situated in the US.

Some Eastern States do not have similar advantages, as were too busy selling oil and building luxurious hotels instead of iPhone Development the high-tech industry. In addition, they seem strangers and  do not possess anything which could interest the leading smartphone companies such as RIM. So, the only way out for them is to threaten  with complete banning the out-of favour services making a huge campaign in media almost positioning smartphone manufacturers as terrorists abettors.