“Imagine for a moment that everybody’s front door has the same key. Now imagine that the police have a copy of that key, and can saunter into your living room to poke around your belongings while you’re out, and without your knowledge. If I’m not on the [Business Enterprise Server], I’m a dead chicken. That’s the reality of it, that’s what we don’t want the general public to know.”
The RCMP intercepted and decrypted over one million messages.
Source: Exclusive: How Canadian Police Intercept and Read Encrypted BlackBerry Messages