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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. How long... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

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

    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. Gag order by traindirector · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The better question may be "where has this already happened with a gag order attached to the request?"

  3. Excuse for corporate espionage, really by Gopal.V · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I know RIM is only providing meta-data on the content, but honestly, are you telling me that this *wont* be used to spy on a corporate competitor?

    India is corrupt in a very "Who me?" way. This law has only abuses, in a country where you can buy a SIM for 5 dollars, with a photocopy of just about anybody's id. The terrorists don't need to bother with the BB or anything even remotely expensive - the underworld maybe (The D Company), but not the "kill them all and let God sort them out" category of terrorists.

    But it's not like India is the first place to do this. Echelon was used similarly, I guess to spy on foreign firms.

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  4. Are you sure it's *securely* encrypted? by Xenographic · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Verizon has delegated enough authority to let the UAE write SSL certificates impersonating any site which will get automatically accepted by most browsers, so don't you think it's getting hard to know if your communications are actually secure from eavesdropping?

    Part of the problem of secure communications is that there are too many governments who don't want people to have them because people can (and do) plot nefarious things with them.

  5. Re:Phfft. by zbyg · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Terrorism and pedophiles has become the best argument for invading privacy nowadays.

    FTFY