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Is Blackberry more secure than iPhone?

Hi Experts,

We have been, still, mostly using Blackberry through BES and exceptionally only a couple of iPhones. Currenlty we are trying to evlauate if we should discontinue using Blackberry and the BES, and completely transfer to using iPhones. Can you tell me if there are some pros and cons, in terms of say, security, etc? Or simply iPhone is the one to go?

Please help. Thanks.

tsaico

From a technical perspective, yes, blackberry is more secure, but only because it controls the entire process of synchronization if you have the BES. The BES will encrypt the email being send to and form your phone, whereas a man in the middle attack and/or traffic sniffing is possible with IOS and DROID (via the active sync traffic)

Though many security people have already proven the BB messages can be intercepted, and while they are programmed in Java in the J2ME API which helps, they were hacked at a convention last year, http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/pwn2own-2011-blackberry-falls-to-webkit-browser-attack/8401

And there is also a vulnerability with the BB Native Development kit that allows applications to run outside of the J2ME environment, meaning you could get malware to run on the phone and get into all sorts of different things.

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