Why were Blackberries considered more secure then phones of other operating systems? Are blackberries still more secure then what we currently have ?

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Edit; Blackberry as in the phone company/ OS. Not the fruit.

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Current Blackberry Products are just regular android devices.

The benefit that Blackberry used to give you came from the combination of their own devices and the servers running in the background and how they connected to each other. It was secure and locked down and admins had some ability to ensure it stayed that way.

Most of that is history.

There are many types of mobile device management solutions that provide many of the security benefits that Blackberry enterprise server used to give you, but it is not quite the same.

One of the things that make modern device inherently less secure is the fact that you can install all sorts of apps on them. The old blackberry phones had only their build in apps for phone, mail and some other stuff, but no third party products.

Modern android and apple device can’t possibly as secure as they were as they come with a ton of different apps that provide all sorts of extra attack surfaces and companies that you just have to trust.

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