A spokesperson for Quebec’s provincial police Thursday morning refused to confirm or deny a media report that investigators obtained access to a series of encrypted BlackBerry messages during their probe into the Mafia-style slaying of Salvatore Montagna.[montrealgazette.com]

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BlackBerry messenger is “significantly less encrypted compared to the BlackBerry email that corporations are using,” Leif-Olof Wallin, an analyst at Gartner Inc., based in Sweden, recently told Bloomberg News. “Any kind of cryptographer should be able to crack it without the involvement of (parent company, Waterloo, Ont.-based Research in Motion)."[montrealgazette.com]