RIM Agrees To Give Intelligence Agencies In India Access To Encrypted Information To Allow Monitoring

Earlier this month I mentioned that BlackBerry, Gmail & Skype might be banned in India and more recently that the UAE wants access to encrypted info. I expressed my own concerns about RIM allowing access to encrypted info on their servers to intelligence agencies of India, but they’ve decided to “comply” with India’s demands and plan to allow them access.
“Makers of BlackBerry have assured the ministry of home affairs that the issue of monitoring will be sorted out soon. I am sure we will soon be on the same page and our concerns will be addressed,” special secretary (internal security) in home ministry U K Bansal told reporters on the sidelines of a conference organised by FICCI here.
The government has already warned RIM that if it does not comply with the formats that can allow monitoring of emails and SMSes to address security concerns, it will have to close down operations in the country.
Bansal said the department of telecommunication was the nodal authority which made policy and it was working to address the issue raised by the home ministry.
BlackBerry’s server is based in Canada where the encryption level is very high and extremely difficult to crack. Any message going through the Canadian server is encrypted and, therefore, cannot be accessed by intelligence agencies in India.
I can’t help but laugh at that last bit where India complained that RIM’s encryption level was difficult to crack. Military level encryption that’s difficult to crack and track…you don’t say? Personally I don’t think RIM should have complied (slippery slope) but I guess they’re confident they can allow access without jeopardizing total security. What do you think?
via Times Of India
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I would tell them to go to heck allowing access to those systems could jeopardize us all
My thoughts exactly!
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“go to heck blah blah ?” …. umm someone didn't learn manners now, did we ? India is adding 12 million subscribers per MONTH on average, with a peak of 20M in March. Your market/opinion is miniscule compared to the Indian market. I double dare you to ignore the Indian market. Its not like the systems are secure anyways – PATRIOT Act agencies and Canadian security agencies are trawling through your data anyways. And so is China BTW – they are already enabled to do so. Reality checks suck.
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Now that RIM has made this bad decision, I can certainly see more countries wanting in and going to the same levels India went through. I believe this was a very bad move unless RIM decides to separate their servers and keep India BlackBerry to their own room per say. I just don’t understand why RIM can’t appoint a group to monitor India’s activity.
Now that RIM has made this bad decision, I can certainly see more countries wanting in and going to the same levels India went through. I believe this was a very bad move unless RIM decides to separate their servers and keep India BlackBerry to their own room per say. I just don't understand why RIM can't appoint a group to monitor India's activity.
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