India's encrypted BlackBerry network lives to fight another day

Remember the Indian government's threat to shutdown RIM's in-country network if they didn't open it up for snooping? Ain't gonna happen. Today the Indian government ruled out banning the BlackBerry service. Instead, the government will continue working with the Telecom Commission on security matters (whatever that means) with a promise to resolve the matter soon. Look India, if the notoriously controlling Chinese allow the data to run encrypted, what's your beef chicken?

[workinghit @ Mar 14th 2008 7:34AM]

Was it really necessary to post the last part about beef ?

[adamb716 @ Mar 14th 2008 7:51AM]

Yes.

[CT A @ Mar 14th 2008 8:21AM]

It Was

[deep @ Mar 14th 2008 8:47AM]

I'm Indian, and I thought it was funny as hell. Jai Hind!

[CUBSWILLWIN @ Mar 14th 2008 9:18AM]

same here, deep. It was pretty funny to me and I'm indian!! Don't get why you people are offeneded

[IndiaTech @ Mar 14th 2008 9:43PM]

You do realise that not all Indians are Hindus, right? About 20% of Indian population follow non Indo - Aryanic faiths like Moslims, Christians, etc.
Also, even some Hindus do eat beef.

BTW you guys do realise that India is the largest exporter of leather aka Cow Hide?

[Toink @ Mar 14th 2008 7:54AM]

Hahaha! That was catch-y... That was really funny!

CHICKEN!! :P

[Jagannath A @ Mar 14th 2008 12:34PM]

I want to know why everyone screws up while replying ;)

[Flashpoint @ Mar 14th 2008 8:10AM]

Thank You...spy again !

[tcc3 @ Mar 14th 2008 8:24AM]

Jeepers Endgaget! Don't make jokes, you might offend someone. Golly we wouldn't want that.


Don't let the bastards get you down guys. Keep the comedy rolling. =)

[Akshay @ Mar 14th 2008 10:59AM]

I'm an Indian and no offense taken, I found it pretty funny, it was just one person offended anyway... keep it coming...

[roole @ Mar 14th 2008 8:50AM]

Get a life, sir. And while on that quest, get a sense of humor too.

[roole @ Mar 14th 2008 8:51AM]

That was meant for @Jeeper's Creeper.

[jamie @ Mar 14th 2008 8:51AM]

and here come the fun police....

You know I went to India once and I don't think I saw anyone laugh...

[Nash @ Mar 14th 2008 10:12AM]

Jeez.....Cheer up ppl

[jamie @ Mar 14th 2008 10:15AM]

Yeah I second that.....

I don't get why everyone's so darn sensitive these days

lighten up, go rent some of dennis leary's old stand-up, I'm sure that'll chear you up and of course leary's brand of humor isn't even remotely offensive... ;)

[Fernando @ Mar 14th 2008 8:57AM]

I lol'd at the beef comment

[Gadgetguy @ Mar 14th 2008 9:03AM]

ALL THE RACISTS PLEASE ENJOY THE LAST LINE.

[cmc @ Mar 14th 2008 9:16AM]

Racists? Why is it racist? If anything, it would be sectarian as its to do with religion and not race but don't let that get in the way of your faux-indignation. Fail.
I laughed, it was funny. =)

[CUBSWILLWIN @ Mar 14th 2008 9:19AM]

dude, I'm indian and I thought that was funny. You're stupid to think racists would enjoy the last line

[workinghit @ Mar 14th 2008 9:05AM]

Why was it not left at just beef ? By crossing this out and replacing it emphasises that the commentator knew that this might cause offence.

[Anthony @ Mar 14th 2008 9:20AM]

To be funny.

[CUBSWILLWIN @ Mar 14th 2008 9:30AM]

duh?

[allforfun @ Mar 14th 2008 10:04AM]

You really dont see the humor in it do you? Get a life...Im an Indian and I felt it was pretty funny.

[siddharth s @ Mar 14th 2008 12:28PM]

You folks ... are way too sensitive. Look, I'm Indian and I'm a Hindu.
I felt that comment was FUNNY!!! In fact I just told my wife about
that (also Indian/Hindu if that matters) and she thought it was funny
too!!

I actually don't know the profile of folks who got offended ?!?!?

Also, this isn't "racist" ... folks of the same race DO eat beef (eg.
christians in India {btw India = Hindustan in earlier days before we got rid of the *stan from the name} or muslims in pakistan/afghanistan). It *COULD* be
perceived as religious, but only to the hypersensitive - who shouldn't
be on the internet - let alone engadget (hey- cos we're elite right!?)

[Daza @ Mar 14th 2008 9:32AM]

I believe somewhere around 70% of India's population is Hindu, with approximately 15% being Muslim and the rest being miscellaneous. Sounds like IE vs Firefox market share, actually..

Anyway, it's not that offensive. I know plenty of Hindu's who actually eat beef and I know a few Muslim's who eat pork. For the record, I'm Indian, but not a Hindu and have never lived there.

[JBo @ Mar 14th 2008 9:37AM]

Really? People are going to play the "offended" card? Get lives.

And for the record, the comment wasn't racist, it was a religious joke. There is no such thing as a race of people being of a particular religion, regardless of what some relgions would like us to believe. Relgion is a choice.

[Joe Soap @ Mar 14th 2008 10:00AM]

Don't you racists know that 30% of all chickens eat fish? It's in their diet, so stop poking fun...

dhoobie or not dhoobie... what was the question again?

[Jamar @ Mar 14th 2008 10:17AM]

To all the people complaining of racism or sectarianism- notice that all the *actual* Indians here are laughing? Maybe y'all should loosen up.

[cmc @ Mar 14th 2008 10:40AM]

For what its worth, I wasn't complaining about sectarianism, I was merely pointing out that if I WAS going to complain, it would be about sectarianism and not racism. I have no problem with the original post and I laughed heartily at it.
Just sayin' =)

[kal326 @ Mar 14th 2008 10:18AM]

Whats everybody's beef with the last line? Oh shit, I probably just offended somebody else...

Seriously its a joke, if you can't take one you might as well kill yourself now and save the rest of us from having to put up with your self righteous, irritable ass.

[Josh L @ Mar 14th 2008 10:38AM]

It was funny.

Get over yourself.

[Rynth @ Mar 14th 2008 10:46AM]

Obviously you left your sense of humor on the bus.

[Rynth @ Mar 14th 2008 10:46AM]

This was supposed to be a reply to Jeeper's Creeper.

[cylonite @ Mar 14th 2008 10:48AM]

The Indian Govt would like to parse the airwaves cos we have some very friendly neighbours.

[Akshay @ Mar 14th 2008 11:00AM]

Damn it guyz, only one douche was offended and now we have around 20-30 comments on that itself... Chill out, one person, thats it. It is funny and nothing racist about it...

[Jagannath A @ Mar 14th 2008 12:39PM]

insert 'FlashPoint' 'tcc3' 'roole' and 'Rynth' comments here =)

[Jagannath A @ Mar 14th 2008 12:49PM]

massive fail :D

obviously this comment was meant as a reply to Jeeper's Creeper

Jeeper's Creeper is creepier.. he can ward off replies... guess the ' in the nick is playing doom with engadget's db ;) let me try

[Jagannath's Clone @ Mar 14th 2008 12:51PM]

following the footsteps of Jeeper's Creeper

[Jagannath A @ Mar 14th 2008 12:59PM]

obviously this is some screw up of the comment reply javascript when the original commenter's nick has a ' character in it :D

[murray @ Mar 14th 2008 3:28PM]

Oh, FFS... get a life.

[murray @ Mar 14th 2008 3:29PM]

@Jeeper's Creeper

[CraigJ @ Mar 14th 2008 5:47PM]

Sounds like someone needs to watch a Mel Brooks movie...

[Jeeper's Creeper @ Mar 14th 2008 11:25PM]

@Engadget(Thomas Ricker),do u know that there are Christians and Muslims live in India??And they DO eat beef??

Hindus don't eat beef because of religious reasons.Just like Muslims don't eat pork or drink alcohol.

Don't force your crappy jokes out.There was nothing funny about your last line.

[Ferdinand @ Mar 15th 2008 2:08PM]

I would have really liked it if blackberry was banned in India, too much valuable information is being snooped by NSA.

[Bio @ Mar 17th 2008 11:58PM]

OMG...what's the big deal with the beef part? I'm an indian, a hindu too and wasn't the least bit offended about the last line. There's absolutely nothing to get offended about and as for the people who do get offended (none of them being Indians in this post) it's your problem!