Is your CrackBerry being tapped?
Research In Motion, the manufacturer of BlackBerrys says: no way, but the French government has banned the use of the BlackBerry by civil servants because their mail gets routed through servers in the USA. Actually, the ban came into effect 18 months ago, but a reminder was issued this week.
In fact, the US government has required copies of all telecommunications crossing their national boundaries since before the Second World War, and more recently has passed laws such as the USA Patriot Act and CALEA which require communications to be made available to the US government or law enforcement agencies. We won’t mention ECHELON either, will we? So my guess would be that the French government is justified in assuming their Blackberrys are being monitored.