RIM's Encryption 'Too Secure' For Indian Government's Taste

climenole writes "Research in Motion, the creator of the widely used enterprise-cum-consumer BlackBerry device, has an uncertain position in India. The Indian government's internal security and intelligence services cannot break the encryption of the device, which makes countering terror threats and national security matters difficult — especially for a region which faces constant threats and attacks from domestic Maoist insurgents and extremist Islamic groups." Does it make you wonder how much safer everyone would be if parkas, mailing envelopes, cash, and superglue were all evaluated on the same basis?

Comments

No one does

[Rix]

So they don't care.

dupe

[phantomfive]

Wow, I haven't seen a dupe this bad in a long time. The story is still on the front page. Add to it the story of being detained at the border, Verizon changing router passwords, and the hacker tapping phones for $1500, and today is privacy Sunday, eh guys?

Re:dupe

[phantomfive]

Heh, so you are one of those guys who only reads the title and not the summary, I see. Sign up to be a Slashdot editor, they need more people like you.

Of course the funny thing

[Sycraft-fu]

Is that the very secure nature of the Blackberrys is precisely why the US government loves the things so much. They are RIM's biggest customer. They love all the security features BBs have, and love the Exchange integration.

BB Really much more secure than IMAPS/SMTPS

[simpz]

..to a server outside the country.

Or is it that most people when using other smartphones don't know or just don't bother to use the SSL versions of these services.

Just the beginning

[joeszilagyi]

Any communications product, vendor, or service that can't be backdoored by government(s) will be banned.

Re:When governments attack, only one thing matters

[countertrolling]

you are NOTHING

Ahhh, excellent :-) That's what I've been waiting for. What took you so long?