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Blackberry Gives India Access To Servers
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."
I'ts generally accepted that most of the 1st world countries actually don't need that. USA, Russia, Israel, China, etc, all have the means to decrypt those communications in real time and that's why they never needed to demand access from RIM.
"RIM always claimed that enterprise mail is encrypted with a unique key end to end from the enterprise server to the device and that nobody else has this key" ...and you believed that?
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
This is a joke. When the article was about Saudi Arabia the article showed how ignorant, backward, and censored they are.
Here when it comes to India. Oh yea they blocked it because the "Pakistani"-Based militants! It is their right to have local RIM servers.
Saudi blocked for security reasons just like UAE. which mainly came from the assassination that happened few months ago.
"Pakistani-based militants used mobile and satellite phones..."
Were they Pakistani? Or Pakistan-based?
Just like a person can be English or England-based but there's no such thing as English-based person, there's no such thing as a Pakistani-based person.
Grammar nazi? Perhaps. But it's kind of unfortunate when we can't even get regional cultural terms right before setting ourselves up as experts and discussing the nuances of what's morally right or wrong for that region.