June 20, 2007
France Warns Officials on BlackBerry Use
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France Warns Officials on BlackBerry Use
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PARIS (AP) — BlackBerry handhelds have been called addictive, invasive, wonderful - and now, a threat to French state secrets. That, at least, is the fear of French government defense experts, who have advised against their use by officials in France’s corridors of power, reportedly to avoid snooping by U.S. intelligence agencies. “It’s not a question of trust,” French lawmaker Pierre Lasbordes told The Associated Press. “We are friends with the Americans, the Anglo-Saxons, but it’s economic war.”
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The funny thing is that it is a Canadian company that makes the BB.
I guess the French are still smarting over the plains of Abraham…