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UAE spying on citizens through an Etisalat BlackBerry update?
Author → Asif → in Tech → on Jul 15 2009 7:22PM
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UAE
Etisalat
BlackBerry
SS8
JAR
Tbilisoft
Etisalat, the carrier responsible for bringing the BlackBerry solution to the United Arab Emirates, released a very suspect official update. A member on the official support forums did some detective work, and found some suspicious code in the update. According to the user:
“Blackberry subscribers for Etisalat (one of the official service providers in the UAE) received a WAP Push to download a JAR named “registration”
The description of the “update” was as follows:
“Etisalat network upgrade for Blackberry service. Please download to ensure continuous service quality.”
Unzip it.
Connect your device to the computer.
Run "Remove Registration.bat" file
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