Blackberry Devices and P2P Communications

I posted recently on Blackberrys here. Computerworld picked up the story (not from my post) and asked me to comment. Here is what ended up being printed:

The news should come as no surprise to security professionals, said Pete Lindstrom, an analyst at Malvern, Pa.-based Spire Security LLC. "Most people think of peer-to-peer communications as being a person-to-person thing. But somewhere in between there’s almost always a server intercepting this stuff and logging it."

Of course, logging traffic is not as absolute as this indicates. It is the possibility of logging, and the existence of an aggregation point somewhere, that I wanted to get across.