Germany ousts BlackBerry for government VIPs

RIM may have recently opened a facility in Bochum, but that apparently wasn't enough Bavarian love to save it from being canned as the German government's platform of choice for its high-security needs. Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-Systems has been selected to lead up an effort to procure "several thousand" customized handsets with mega-uncrackable encryption, winning the deal over the old BlackBerry standby thanks to concerns that state secrets are being transmitted overseas -- to Canada, specifically. Canada has always struck us as a pretty trustworthy bunch of good, hard-working folks, but then again, it's all fun and games until Canadian Motor Works, Canadawagen, Canada-Benz, and Canadorsche all come out of nowhere.

[Thanks, Toby]

[xinjii Posted Nov 30th 2009 12:43PM]

CMW? Hilarious!

[RileyFreeman Posted Nov 30th 2009 1:34PM]

"Canada has always struck us as a pretty trustworthy bunch of good, hard-workingfolks, but then again, it's all fun and games until Canadian Motor Works, Canadawagen, Canada-Benz, and Canadorsche all come out of nowhere."

lmaoooooooooooooo lol. this gave me a good chuckle (i am canadian)

[SamTime Posted Nov 30th 2009 3:05PM]

Those Canadians are far too friendly to be trusted! =)

[Shlooky Posted Nov 30th 2009 5:16PM]

Hehe that was funny!
We are friendly for a reason, we are always drunk on good beer :-)

[nothingnewunderthesun Posted Nov 30th 2009 9:01PM]

"...thanks to concerns that state secrets are being transmitted overseas ..."

Two words: Enigma Machine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_machine

[twm17 Posted Nov 30th 2009 10:42PM]

that's wrong,im with BB

[surur Posted Dec 1st 2009 7:25AM]

What the article (typically for engadget) does not mention is that the german government will be using a more secure Windows Mobile solution instead.

http://wmpoweruser.com/?p=10907

You did not think they were going to use iPhones, did you?

[Chris Ziegler Posted Dec 1st 2009 10:50AM]

@(Unverified) Where do we say that?