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RIM In Trouble For Not Violating Privacy

Posted by kdawson on from the end-to-end-baby dept.

sufijazz writes "The US government is not alone in wanting to snoop on everything citizens do over email/phone. The Indian government wants that right too. RIM is stating they have no means to decrypt, no master key, and no back door to allow the government to access email." The article notes that 114,000 BlackBerries are in use on the Indian subcontinent. The government is concerned about attacks by militants and sees the BlackBerry as a security risk.

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  1. Re:can't work even if they wanted it to by saforrest · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And yet in North America (or Canada at least) they want to fight murder by banning guns.

    That's because they (myself included) believe that knives, books, and privacy have inherent value that exceed the virtue of banning them for the purposes of controlling murder, hate speech, and conspiracies, and further believe that guns do not have such value for most private civilians.

    You could argue this by saying, I guess, that declaring that something must have value to be permitted is meaningless, since any dictator who wanted to ban books would just declare that books lack value (and indeed they do). I suppose this notion of "value" has to be defined by popular consensus, so if you can get enough people to say guns have inherent value (e.g. to overthrow the government through a "well-regulated militia") then go ahead. Such a popular consensus in favour of guns does not exist in Canada, so they ought to be banned.