Blackberry's response to India

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So the Indian government wanted access to the encrypted data sent from blackberrys in india to RIM's servers in Canada. Guess they are following the other countries that are complanining that Blackberries = major terrorist threat.

Anyway the response from RIM CEO was awesome

"This is about the internet...everything on the internet is encrypted," Mr Lazaridis said.

"[and] this is not a Blackberry-only issue...if they can't deal with the internet, they should shut it off," he added"
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I love it :)
 
RIM havent rolled over for the Saudi's yet...in discussion with them to see if they can come up with a solution to all of this.

Problem is that the respective govts of those countries want access to the data which is passed through RIM servers...RIM has never ever allowed any world govt that luxury of them being able to 'spy' on their people and im totally with Mike L on this...screw them i say and the good thing about all of this is that i no longer have to be worried about some perverted Arab or Indian asking for sexy time on BBM :/

Hopefully RIM wont give into their stupid demands...
 
Spawn said:
RIM havent rolled over for the Saudi's yet...in discussion with them to see if they can come up with a solution to all of this.

Problem is that the respective govts of those countries want access to the data which is passed through RIM servers...RIM has never ever allowed any world govt that luxury of them being able to 'spy' on their people and im totally with Mike L on this...screw them i say and the good thing about all of this is that i no longer have to be worried about some perverted Arab or Indian asking for sexy time on BBM :/

Hopefully RIM wont give into their stupid demands...
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They appear to have to have come up with a solution that will allow the Saudis to monitor BlackBerry Messenger:

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6751Q220100810
 
Defcon5 said:
I have a work blackberry, does this mean my employer cannot see my emails and stuff?
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They can see your emails as they run the system that processes your email.

Emails on Blackberrys are encrypted end to end, from BES server to device.

So anyone sniffing the traffic inbetween the 2 cannot read them.

But your employer has access to the emails at their end where they aren't encrypted (the other end when they aren't encrypted is on your device).

All a BES server does is effective'y watch your mailbox, and when something comes in it pulls the message out and puts it through the BES, through the Blackberry network, and onto your device.

Can send an email and have it hit my Blackberry before it hits Outlook on my desktop :)

Blackberry messenger however is different, that runs purely on the Blackberry network and doesn't touch your work network.
 
Stolly said:
They rolled over for the Saudis and they wil roll over for the Indians.
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They rolled over for the US Canada and the EU a very long time ago, now other countries was the encryption decyptors also.
Indonesia is one they should certainly give it to, as they have the largest muslim population of any country, and are quite moderate after a fashion. They've made a good policy of taking down terrorist cells in recent history, another one just last week, although this time they took prisioners, in recent times then tended to just execute everyone during the raid.
They disliked the smiling faces of the Bali bombers when found guilty and then taken for execution. Instead chosing to kill them so they couldn't get camera time. This week they took a batch of prisoners.
 
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