BlackBerry Blog Hacked for Helping Police Quell London Riots

Hackers defaced the semiofficial Blackberry bush Web log today in retaliation for Research In Motion's pledge to aid police "in some way we nates" in their efforts to quench the riots in London in Recent epoch days.

Later vandalizing the BlackBerry blog website, the hackers, who call themselves TeaMp0isoN, posted to the Internet an open letter to RIM, which makes BlackBerry smartphones, explaining the motive behind their actions.

[Related story: Londoners Take to Social Media Outlets During and After the Riots]

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"You Will _NOT_ assist the UK Police because if u do innocent members of the public who were at the wrong place at the wrong time and owned a blackberry will get charged for no reason in the least," they wrote unfettered by rules of grammar and punctuation, "the Police are looking to arrest as numerous people as possible to save themselves from superfluity…"

"if you dress attend to the police aside bountiful them chat logs, gps locations, customer data & access to peoples BlackBerryMessengers you bequeath regret it," the hackers threatened. "We suffer access to your database which includes your employees information; e.g – Addresses, Names, Phone Numbers etc."

"now if u assist the police, we _WILL_ make this entropy public and pass information technology onto rioters…," they continued, "do you really desire a bunch of angry youths connected your employees doorsteps?"

The attack on the Blackberry bush blog was spurred past RIM's reaction to reports that BlackBerrys were being used by rioters to orchestrate their activities. "It seems that BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) is the perfect instant electronic messaging tool for rioters, given that it's free to use (unlike text edition messages), and you throne outright see when someone has study a message," the UK edition of The Next Web noted.

"Also," information technology added, "whilst Twitter is a good deal a public platform, BBM can glucinium ill-used to communicate between groups in camera."

In light of evidence that its computer hardware may be organism used by rioters, RIM, which has shown in the onetime strong electric resistance to government regime interfering with its customers' secrecy, told the world finished Twitter that it was leaving to cooperate with law enforcement government. "We feel for those compact by the riots in London" IT tweeted. "We have committed with the regime to attend to in whatever way we can."

That ambiguous statement was ulterior refined in a statement by Patrick Spence, Brim's managing conductor for global sales and regional marketing. "As in all markets around the world where Blackberry bush is available, we cooperate with local telecommunications operators, law enforcement and regulatory officials," he aforementioned. "Similar to other technology providers in the UK, we abide by with The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Routine and co-manoeuvre in full with the Home Office and GB police forces."

Abide by freelance technology writer St. John the Apostle P. Mello Jr. and Today@PCWorld on Chitter.