Ex-NSA lawyer: Apple and Google may end up like BlackBerry if they make their phones

[Wireless News]

http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/WEs0y1utunywpLoQh3cB1g--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_US/News/BGR_News/blackberry-sign-23.jpg (http://news.yahoo.com/ex-nsa-lawyer-apple-google-may-end-blackberry-140557544.html)We’ve heard government officials make a lot of questionable claims-to try to get Apple and Google to-not encrypt data on their smartphone platforms. However, this might be the most ridiculous and shameless scare tactic we’ve seen anyone use yet. The Guardian-brings us word that former NSA general counsel Stewart Baker is now claiming that Apple and Google shouldn’t encrypt their smartphones’ data because they’ll end up like BlackBerry. RELATED: The government is shamelessly trying to scare Apple and Google from encrypting their phones “Blackberry pioneered the same business model that Google and Apple are doing now — that has not ended well for Blackberry,” said Baker, who went on to explain that BlackBerry has been-throwing away potential government customers in



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