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Blackberry Gives India Access To Servers

Posted by timothy on from the good-thing-we-can-trust-governments dept.

Meshach writes "As happened earlier in Saudi Arabia Blackberry has reached a deal that allows Indian authorities access to the transmissions of hand held devices. Much of the fear comes from worries about terrorists: Pakistani-based militants used mobile and satellite phones in the 2008 attacks that killed 166 people in Mumbai."

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  1. Re:How long... by Jazz-Masta · · Score: 5, Funny

    How long before every country decides that in order to allow RIM to operate they need to open up their servers?

    Monday.

  2. Re:Gag order by TheGratefulNet · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'll tell you:

    uA)u2j2la*jh2o(*&seH uj* jj3&m*j3hH

    (and, yes, someone at RIM has just run that thru their indiaFilter() and are laughing at the joke. sorry, I can't explain it to you.)

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  3. Re:Excuse for corporate espionage, really by TheGratefulNet · · Score: 2, Funny

    I guess to spy on foreign firms.

    my eyes must be going. at fist, I read it as foreign films and I'm thinking, hmmm, is there some DRM angle to this? maybe something about region codes?

    yes, I must get new glasses soon.

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  4. Re:Story should be titled ... by plover · · Score: 4, Funny

    How about "Another RIM job for Blackberry Users"?

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  5. Re:How long... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just curious how any government would go about decrypting a 128 bit RSA message in real time? Was there an article proving P == NP while I wasn't paying attention?

  6. Re:Niggers by OrangeCatholic · · Score: 1, Funny

    India just gave 38% of smartphone users a RIMjob.