What's new

Backing off the Blackberry ban

Hafizzz

SENIOR MEMBER
Jun 28, 2010
5,041
0
3,525
India Backs Off On Blackberry Ban Threat
India Backs Off On Blackberry Ban Threat : NPR

India has followed the United Arab Emirates in backing off from a threat to ban popular services on Blackberry devices, amid growing global concern over access to encrypted information.

The Ministry of Home Affairs said Friday that Research in Motion Ltd., the Canadian maker of the smart phones, has agreed to an interim arrangement for lawful interception of Blackberry messenger services — an instant messaging application — and pledged to provide a final solution by January.

"Accordingly, the ... services will continue to be available," the ministry said in a statement.

Citing national security concerns, India had threatened to ban corporate e-mail and messenger services by August if Research in Motion didn't come up with a way for the government to monitor them. It then extended the deadline to October. It remains unclear what solution the parties may have reached over encrypted corporate e-mails.

RIM, whose competitive edge rests on ensuring security to its global users, has given no details of the possible concessions that led the UAE and India to back off from their October deadlines for access.

The company said in a statement that it is optimistic about reaching a final solution with Indian regulators. RIM said it had not changed the security architecture for corporate e-mail and that it does not make special deals on access with individual countries.

India is now asking all companies that provide encrypted communications — not just RIM — to install servers in the country to make it easier for the government to obtain users' data. That would likely affect Gmail provider Google Inc. and Internet phone company Skype SA.

Freedom of speech and information restored.
 
yep and the reason for backing off was BB willing to give relevant authorities access over BB traffic.
 
Freedom of speech and information restored.

Yupp very true. Considering all the Indians communicate via blackberry only. Thanks God! Freedom of speech and information is finally restored, We were not able to share any information all this while.

Thanks for posting such a brilliant Pakistani point of view on the topic!
 
Yupp very true. Considering all the Indians communicate via blackberry only. Thanks God! Freedom of speech and information is finally restored, We were not able to share any information all this while.

Yeah, Geelani, Arundhati Roy, Bajrang Dal, VHP etc will retain their voices/Blackberries.
Oh, the never-ending joys of "freedom of speech"!!
 
:hitwall:
Freedom of speech and information restored.

yep and the reason for backing off was BB willing to give relevant authorities access over BB traffic.


From the same link:

The Ministry of Home Affairs said Friday that Research in Motion Ltd., the Canadian maker of the smart phones, has agreed to an interim arrangement for lawful interception of Blackberry messenger services — an instant messaging application — and pledged to provide a final solution by January.
"Accordingly, the ... services will continue to be available," the ministry said in a statement.

Do you ppl even read the links you post or just post for the heck of it .??

No wonder the quality is going down south these days.
 
Freedom of speech and information restored.

:lol: Is he crazy??? BB was banned until RIM doesn't give Indian authorities the required access to encrypted service provided through BB messenger and other services. RIM initially denied access to the service saying that such encryption is key to its business. But later they bent and agreed with GoI norms.
 

Users Who Are Viewing This Thread (Total: 2, Members: 0, Guests: 2)


Pakistan Defence Latest Posts

Back
Top Bottom