U.S. Immigration and Customs to Drop BlackBerrys for iPhones

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Posted October 22, 2012 at 7:57pm by iClarified

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency has announced that it will drop RIM's BlackBerry and buy iPhones for its more than 17,600 employees. The purchase is worth about 2.1 million, according to Reuters.

The agency said that RIM's technology "can no longer meet the mobile technology needs of the agency".

It had analyzed Apple's iOS-based devices and Google's Android operating system and concluded that for the near term Apple's iPhone services offer the best technology for the agency because of Apple's tight controls of the hardware platform and operating system.

The iPhone will be used by a "variety of agency personnel, including, but not limited to, Homeland Security Investigations, Enforcement and Removal Operations, and Office of the Principal Legal Advisor employees".

"The iPhone services will allow these individuals to leverage reliable, mobile technology on a secure and manageable platform in furtherance of the agency's mission," said the ICE.

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FawazAl - October 24, 2012 at 4:47am

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Detour - October 23, 2012 at 3:45am

This is good then also bad news for us. If this is true, more hackers will investigate ios to find a loophole. More people means faster to be hacked. Which also gives us better successful rate of getting the iphone jailbreaks. But take a look at android. They are easily moddable. And hackable too.

BrawlBro1 - October 23, 2012 at 4:32am

Think about it for a second. This is a bad thing. There are two types of hackers. One of them hacks for the purpose of stealing your personal information the other one hacks to install Cydia. The more exploits those hackers release then Apple will patch them, which will increase the time it takes to develop a jailbreak every time Apple releases a new firmware. If those hackers purpose is not Cydia then it's a bad thing for the jailbreak community.

Copperhead - October 23, 2012 at 12:51am

Reason for this is our own law informant agents cant be trusted and they are stealing the Blackberries and there is no way if tracking it like the iPhone. And the agencies need something they can track right away , hence the ( find my phone ) application. Also the law ingot cement agrncies has a special app that tracks each officers location with a embedded Check-In feature that let's an officer check in every hour with a special pass code. - it's mostly for the safety of the officers as well as keeping tabs on the device itself....

Chris - October 22, 2012 at 10:18pm

Just what RIM needs...

odedoo1 - October 22, 2012 at 8:30pm

trying again,

odedoo1 - October 22, 2012 at 8:27pm

sorry they won't let me write the truth

BrawlBro1 - October 22, 2012 at 10:01pm

The truth? Of course eventually hackers will target iOS, but it will take them a long time to hack it. It took some random hacking team (I forgot what they were called) 3 weeks to hack iOS. It takes the dev-team or some other random person that hacks iOS months to hack it. If hackers target iOS it won't be easily hacked like Android.

BrawlBro1 - October 22, 2012 at 8:21pm

odedoo1 - October 22, 2012 at 8:17pm

that's bad news for us because now all kind of viruses and worms will start showing on Apple devices, before hackers said that it's not worth it to write viruses and worms for Apple devices because

BrawlBro1 - October 22, 2012 at 8:19pm

Because?