Canadian police have had master key to BlackBerry's encryption since 2010

It's all about trust. This makes me nervous, obviously like blackberry said it's not good marketing to say one works with the police. To me just reading about a story like this I never want to own a blackberry. It makes one wonder how much of apples resistance to the court case as just a big marketing ploy to gain more customers. How safe is our data on our phones? I think we need a way to encrypt our data and hold the keys ourselves on our phones, removing the need to trust these companies.

"For consumer-grade phones, the decryption key is in the company's possession. BlackBerry, however, also offers the option to run their BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) which allows clients to run their own network of phones, and keep possession of their own decryption key. The RCMP's technique likely would not work on those phones."

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