Canadian government intercepts millions of BBMs, arrests more than 30 linked to organized crime

In the French Canadian province of Quebec, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, arrested several people in connection with Italian based mob activities. The charges range from conspiracy, drug trafficking, and kidnapping.



That is good news for everyday Canadian citizens. The investigation, dubbed Project Clemenza, involved all the tools one might expect in a law enforcement operation. What is also interesting is the RCMP’s acknowledgement and highlighting of the interception of “Pin to Pin messaging” between BlackBerry devices.



More than a million messages were intercepted to identify, ...