Reports out of India this morning claim that RIM has agreed a deal with the local government to permit its security agencies to "
monitor" email and messaging done on BlackBerry devices. There's even a roadmap for this snooperiffic rollout, as all consumer email is expected to be opened up within 15 days and tools are being developed over the next six to eight months to allow chat surveillance as well. A very detailed report indeed, but the IDG News service reports RIM has rubbished the entire thing, stating it's in a continuing dialog with the Indian government and discussions remain confidential. Then again, we'd expect RIM to keep up the facade as long as possible, considering the likely domino effect a capitulation in India would have in nearby states that have
similar security concerns. In the mean time, Nokia has meekly announced it'll be complying with the Indian government's rules for push mail and is "installing the required infrastructure." For more on that and the
BlackBerry saga, hit the source links below.
posted August 3rd 2010 7:12AM
@Predaking82
Gotta love the GOP scare tactics . If you don't approve it America won't be safe and most dummies stared acting like chicken Little..,aaah the terrorist aaah"
Free BB Phone to all Politicians then only they will allow in INDIA
India seriously wants to deal with terrorists. Saudia Arabia wants to control ts citizens. In any case, I hope RIM stands up for privacy. If you give up your privacy for security you end up with neither.
Translation:
Indian government: "we want access to stock tips and business transactions. Oops, did we say that out loud?"
@rederikus Guys who down-ranked me, I had to use those words because this fellow literally wrote BAD against my country. I won't tolerate that and neither you should.
I'm confused.
RIM explicitly states that it is not possible for them or anyone else to read BlackBerry encrypted emails:
"• The BlackBerry security architecture for enterprise customers is purposefully designed to exclude the capability for RIM or any third party to read encrypted information under any circumstances. RIM would simply be unable to accommodate any request for a copy of a customer's encryption key since at no time does RIM, or any wireless network operator, ever possess a copy of the key." (see http://blogs.thenational.ae/beep_beep/2010/08/full-rim-customer-statement-on-blackberry-security-issues.html for full RIM statement on this). But India, UAE, et al. keep demanding this ability and the US claims to already have it.
How can the various governments continue to demand something which RIM says is not even theoretically possible?