India's encrypted BlackBerry network lives to fight another day
By Thomas Ricker 
posted Mar 14th 2008 7:24AM
posted Mar 14th 2008 7:24AM
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 
Was it really necessary to post the last part about beef ?
Yes.
It Was
I'm Indian, and I thought it was funny as hell. Jai Hind!
same here, deep. It was pretty funny to me and I'm indian!! Don't get why you people are offeneded
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?
Hahaha! That was catch-y... That was really funny!
CHICKEN!! :P
I want to know why everyone screws up while replying ;)
@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.
Thank You...spy again !
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. =)
I'm an Indian and no offense taken, I found it pretty funny, it was just one person offended anyway... keep it coming...
Get a life, sir. And while on that quest, get a sense of humor too.
That was meant for @Jeeper's Creeper.
and here come the fun police....
You know I went to India once and I don't think I saw anyone laugh...
Jeez.....Cheer up ppl
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... ;)
ALL THE RACISTS PLEASE ENJOY THE LAST LINE.
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. =)
dude, I'm indian and I thought that was funny. You're stupid to think racists would enjoy the last line
I lol'd at the beef comment
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.
To be funny.
duh?
You really dont see the humor in it do you? Get a life...Im an Indian and I felt it was pretty funny.
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!?)
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.
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.
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?
To all the people complaining of racism or sectarianism- notice that all the *actual* Indians here are laughing? Maybe y'all should loosen up.
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' =)
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.
It was funny.
Get over yourself.
Obviously you left your sense of humor on the bus.
This was supposed to be a reply to Jeeper's Creeper.
The Indian Govt would like to parse the airwaves cos we have some very friendly neighbours.
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...
insert 'FlashPoint' 'tcc3' 'roole' and 'Rynth' comments here =)
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
following the footsteps of Jeeper's Creeper
obviously this is some screw up of the comment reply javascript when the original commenter's nick has a ' character in it :D
Oh, FFS... get a life.
@Jeeper's Creeper
Sounds like someone needs to watch a Mel Brooks movie...
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!
I would have really liked it if blackberry was banned in India, too much valuable information is being snooped by NSA.