http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/ Engadget Comments for BlackBerry email, web and messaging to be banned in UAE due to 'security concerns' http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/Aug 1st 2010 10:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/Blackberries in the UAE are now officially dumbphones.]]>Aug 1st 2010 11:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/and is obama gunna fight to have that to? Lol]]>Aug 1st 2010 11:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/Aug 1st 2010 11:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/Aug 1st 2010 12:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/Aug 1st 2010 12:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/
Um you're being ignorant. Don't confuse the UAE with the KSA.

I'm from neither, for the record.

This isn't any different from the Patriot Act. Except it only applies to BlackBerrys instead of your whole life.]]>Aug 1st 2010 12:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/I know they have really cool tourist attractions too.imagine their gas prices ....]]>Aug 1st 2010 1:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/Aug 1st 2010 1:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/Aug 1st 2010 2:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/Aug 1st 2010 2:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/
I don't buy the "terrorist" argument, thats such an overused word like the boogeyman that governments now just apply to anyone they don't like. Not like "terrorists" are going to be communicating anything secret in a literal sense, unencrypted or otherwise. It'll be really sly encrypted stuff like "the market opens at noon tomorrow" rather than literally saying "get your ass down to the market with a bomb vest and blow yourself into pizza toppings."]]>Aug 1st 2010 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/For all of you trying to say the Patriot Act is worse...

At least the US government doesn't ban services and products that don't allow easy access to obtaining data. They may want to snoop, but you are not forced to make it easy for them like these countries want.]]>Aug 1st 2010 2:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/
You are 100% correct. The biggest difference the reason this is a problem is that the UAE wants constant control and ability to alway see what the person is doing on their blackberry. They want to be able to play "big brother" for lack of better words, for which RIM is saying no.

That is why they are getting banned.]]>Aug 1st 2010 2:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/You said bomb on the internet!
Terrorist!!]]>Aug 1st 2010 2:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/
Ever heard of CALEA? I love it when people make ignorant comments thinking they are actually more "free" and don't realize that they are already subject to the same restrictions other countries (UAE, India) are now planning to use.

FYI, Wikipedia states: "CALEA's purpose is to enhance the ability of law enforcement and intelligence agencies to conduct electronic surveillance by requiring that telecommunications carriers and manufacturers of telecommunications equipment modify and design their equipment, facilities, and services to ensure that they have built-in surveillance capabilities, allowing federal agencies to monitor all telephone, broadband internet, and VoIP traffic in real-time."]]>Aug 1st 2010 3:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/
So you mean like Pak is saying "you dawg lemme get root" and RIM is like "step off homey, ain't fo you no how". ]]>Aug 1st 2010 3:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/Aug 1st 2010 3:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/Aug 1st 2010 4:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/FYI, Obama extended the Patriot Act...]]>Aug 1st 2010 4:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/Aug 1st 2010 5:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/Well, at least in the US sites like Engadget don't censor comments unless they are truly offensive. Oh... wait... 500+ comments and the only one removed was in this thread which referred to women's rights in UAE.
]]>Aug 2nd 2010 5:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/Aug 1st 2010 10:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/Aug 1st 2010 11:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/Aug 1st 2010 11:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/Oh, the wonders of the Islamic revolution.

Seriously, eff you.]]>Aug 1st 2010 11:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/
Do you even realize why they're doing this? The UAE is one of the few countries that hasn't experienced the terrorism of other middle eastern countries. Can't blame 'em for wanting to keep it that way.

Can't believe you're so blindsighted to claim that a Western company doesn't have to oblige to other country's requests. RIM does sell in that market, so they should be required to follow the laws regulated in the country. ]]>Aug 1st 2010 11:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/Aug 1st 2010 11:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/Aug 1st 2010 11:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/Aug 1st 2010 11:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/
RIM is a big company and should try to throw their weight around and help their customers have more free access to information. I think that if a government doesn't want you to have access to something as simple as a blackberry, they are up to no good.]]>Aug 1st 2010 11:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/Jackass! BB is being misused by terror groups! If you don't have enough information don't talk bullshit. I am from India and we are facing the same issue! This has become a big problem for us and our government had almost banned BB. But 1-2 days back RIM assured India that it will work towards giving Indian govt access to the encrypted mails. When the lives of hundreds are at stake, I don't give two hoots to a company. Neither do governments. Remember USA war since 2001?]]>Aug 1st 2010 11:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/
Dude but one terrorist is not very likely to E-mail to another terrorist " Hey Morehammad, let's bomb the place like we agreed" he will probably just say "we are still on" or something of the sort. That will not help government prevent terror. ]]>Aug 1st 2010 11:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/
Keep signing away any liberties you have in the futile search for absolute "security."

The US has done much of the same, unfortunately, but we haven't gotten that bad (yet). It's one of the reasons I'm glad I live here, and that my parents moved here from India. Much better.]]>Aug 1st 2010 11:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/Dude, this HAPPENED! This also happened in Mumbai attacks (a few months before the attack). That was when the govt brought up this issue with BB. I dislike whenever freedom of citizens are compromised but I can see the bigger picture here. I will happily let go of my privacy to stay secured.]]>Aug 1st 2010 11:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/
Also I doubt any of the royal families will get hit with this ban due to the fact that they do so much business with the west that they always want to stay in contact. ]]>Aug 1st 2010 12:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/
They are doing to maintain control over their population, silence free expression and any dissent. There is no terrorism in the UAE because they have lots of money and can buy their way out of it. RIM should not compromise it's ethics to cater to theocratic, backwards governments. In fact Canada should mount a huge PR campaign/boycott against these countries. (like the Danish cartoons, but in favor or freedom of speech and without all of the violence and dogma) If you don't stand up for freedom of speech, it's lost forever. Tyrants don't just had those rights back.]]>Aug 1st 2010 12:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/
The NSA reads all communication and they do not persecute criminals who do not aim for the widespread killing of Americans and our allies, like drug dealers, embezzlers, etc. If the term 'if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear' applies to anything in the world, it applies to the NSA. The NSA is the enemy of no one but the worst people of the world.

Comparing the US's use of this information to Arab governments use of private information is disgusting. Taking every secret from ever citizen, rather it includes porn, adultery, or any other, what 'they' would consider, crime against society numbs the senses. Governments have no right to make their citizens live in fear for their lives (and limbs) for something so human. Over the next generation, exposure to the internet, the plight of totalitarian regimes, will cause the Arab world (it's civilians) to call for personal liberty. That can't happen soon enough. The men who horde all of their countries' wealth, of which no more extreme example is available than the Middle East, must be brought to justice by the hands of the people they have been exploited for so long.]]>Aug 1st 2010 12:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/If it was true, they'd offer the same service and leave others alone.]]>Aug 1st 2010 12:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/
Then you are a coward, see Ben Franklin quote above.]]>Aug 1st 2010 12:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/
dude the Indian govt just wants BB to provide them a means to access private emails or intercept communication in case of a potential terror attack. Its not to spy on its people.

But the UAE and Saudis want this to spy on their people which is wrong.]]>Aug 1st 2010 12:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/
Quite amusing reading all of these conspiracy theories.

How can point a finger at other countries when the US has aliens locked up in Area 51?]]>Aug 1st 2010 1:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/Aug 1st 2010 2:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/Aug 1st 2010 4:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/Aug 1st 2010 4:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/Aug 1st 2010 4:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/Aug 1st 2010 4:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/
...and the governments have sworn their sincere intentions to you? Bottom line is that they want it. Whether they want it to spy, intercept or play ping pong with is their prerogative. All RIM can do is either comply or show them the finger.
Don't be presumptuous enough to advocate claims of one government over the other. They're all lying and scheming bastards who do as they please as and when it is convenient for them.
It makes you look like an idiot. ]]>Aug 1st 2010 10:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/Do you even realize why they're doing this? The UAE is one of the few countries that hasn't experienced the terrorism of other middle eastern countries. Can't blame 'em for wanting to keep it that way.

Can't believe you're so blindsighted to claim that a Western company doesn't have to oblige to other country's requests. RIM does sell in that market, so they should be required to follow the laws regulated in the country.
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Hey dumb dumb

UAE changed their laws cause they didn't like the fact that their people were talking about sex with their mobile devices. With BB being secure UAE couldn't spy on their own people.]]>Aug 2nd 2010 12:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/01/blackberry-email-web-and-messaging-banned-in-uae-due-to-securi/
You wouldnt be saying this if u knew the amount of terrorist attacks India has to face every year becoz of the proxy war Pakistan is waging in Kashmir. And u would be stupid if u think the US or the Canadian govts dont have the means to access the BBN. Even the Russians made BB setup local servers in Russia.]]>Aug 2nd 2010 1:03AM