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India Now Wants Access To Google and Skype

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the voip-is-hoip dept.

crabel writes "A couple of weeks ago India went after RIM and its mail service; it has extended its hunger for data now to all telecommunications. All telecom companies have to give them access to all voice over IP services that go in/out or happen within the country. Heck, they are even going after VPNs used by corporate employees working remotely."

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  1. Well... by panda · · Score: 5, Informative

    Fuck doing business with India or Indian corporation/nationals.

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    1. Re:Well... by moogied · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Flamebait?! This is a VERY valid statement. If have sensitive documents and do a lot of work in India because you own a call center there or something, you would most certainty need to look at this.

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    2. Re:Well... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

      The Indian side of me understands completely where they are coming from. Shit, America is doing the same thing, just undercover. India is a large target for terrorist attacks and this is one way they can monitor the Indian public and anyone who communicates with the Indian public for any terrorist activities.

      I'm not saying its right, based on American laws...but what native Indian is going to fight this? They all want to be safe. They don't want to worry about another Mumbai attack.

      The American side of me understands where most of the posts here are coming from. Invasion of privacy, corrupt governments using information against its own people, and the thought of someone having all information about you at their fingertips. Again, this all happens in America, but there are atleast some laws that protect us just a little.

      To the Indian government: I hope you can come up with another way to protect our people. Demanding things from businesses such as this is a truly poor choice for international business and, eventually, the trust of your people in you. Get that census thing done right, give every Indian an ID number, map out all of the towns in the country...pretty much turn India into today's US. Train a good military force, and protect the borders. It's time to play some good defense, and when called for, put that offense into effect.

    3. Re:Well... by DrgnDancer · · Score: 5, Funny

      Businesses bend over to comply with China because of it's massive population that they can exploit. Either to harness them as cheap manufacturing or to get their Internet dollars. India can't compete on either count.

      Bwa-huhn? China's population is greater than India's, true, but only by 150 million people or so. According to Wikipedia, China has 1.34 billion people vs. India's 1.19 billion. Granted 150 million people is a pretty big number (it's slightly under half the total population of the US), but as a percentage China's population isn't that much bigger than India's. Certainly they're close enough that the effort expended to separate people from their Rupees should be roughly equal to the effort expended to separate people form their Yen.

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  2. Is India trying to *stab* its economy? by FooAtWFU · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Demanding access to all the corporate VPNs is a great way to make companies more skittish about outsourcing there!

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    1. Re:Is India trying to *stab* its economy? by CaptBubba · · Score: 5, Insightful

      This is especially true considering just how notoriously corrupt a lot of the Indian government is. It has been featured on NPR and other news outlets as being a large impediment to business.

      Then you will have someone in a position where they have access to all of your company's secure communications? For the price of a bribe anyone could find out proprietary information that could sink your company or they could gain access to listen in on calls and glean account information for identity theft or just to solicit customers.

  3. Re:Goodbye India by Predius · · Score: 5, Funny

    You wanted to be the greatest source of ICT Professionals in the world.

    You started low - call centres - but hoped high.

    Now you just shot yourself in the foot with a rocket launcher.

    As long as they got a good bounce they'll reach the Quad Damage and be rocking despite the minor health loss up front.