RIM changes course, promises to keep Indian Blackberry network secure
Although several Indian news outlets reported last week that RIM was preparing to let the Indian government monitor the domestic Blackberry network, it appears that the outcry has prompted the company to change course and announce that it's committed to "serving security-conscious businesses in the Indian market." That's a big reversal from the rumored plan, which would have allowed Indian security agencies access to the network in exchange for taking the blame for any leak of user data. Of course, not everything's quite settled yet: the Indian government is still demanding that RIM furnish "satisfactory answers" to its security questions, and RIM told the AFP that there are some other ways for "government to take care of security concerns" without elaborating further. Based on RIM's enterprise-heavy statements and refusal to comment on the consumer service, we'd guess that enterprise customers will probably get to keep their networks locked down, but that consumers shouldn't expect their messages to be secure. Not the best compromise, but we'll see how this all plays out.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
CUBSWILLWIN @ May 27th 2008 4:11PM
Doesn't the Blackberry netowrk get monitored in america because it's a law? Theres not much of a difference here.
Watchbut Donttouch @ May 27th 2008 4:34PM
Encrypted comms means the answer is "No".
[they can do traffic analysis fo your comms but cannot, in theory at least, read them]
CUBSWILLWIN @ May 27th 2008 6:30PM
My bad. Though, the question in my post wasn't rhetorical. It was actually a question.
Watchmy Envelopes @ May 27th 2008 6:47PM
And my answer, though couched "in theory" since we have little idea what the National Security Agency actually CAN decrypt without overt keys, was the actual answer.
No, they do not monitor diddlysquat in America because they cannot. In theory.
[we ALL have the ability to send messages back and forth with no prying eyes other than the recipients knowing what those messages say; the prying eyes WILL, however, know when and to whom those messages were sent and from where]
kal326 @ May 27th 2008 4:20PM
Ah ha, the RIMjob strikes again.....take that bureaucrats!!
ReggieXuk @ May 27th 2008 6:07PM
ah man, you got yours in before me, oh well
Imagine going to a job centre:
guy 1: err are there any RIM jobs?
guy 2: *snot flies out of nose*
guy 1: JOBS, at RIM, i wont lie, i look like i want work, but im only searching for RIM jobs.
guy 2: oh, i have a blackberry, i see
guy 1: whos talking about Blackberrys?
*door slams*
Reader @ May 27th 2008 4:42PM
I read the article halfway through before I noticed it was talking about India Indians; guess that's what happens when you jump to a tech article after reading antebellum history.
Bout Time @ May 27th 2008 4:55PM
"First Americans" is the term being used in some schools now.
Or "Earliest Americans".
But no longer "Native Americans" nor "Indians".
I like it.
phanbouy @ May 27th 2008 4:59PM
last I heard, they've adopted "American Indian" or just "Indian" for themselves. IMHO, "earliest americans" is pretty lame, just as "African American" is lame... how do we assume that someone's American or even of African descendentry from their skin color? Guilty white man PC-isms are really craven and condescending.
Head Scratcher @ May 27th 2008 5:11PM
Earliest Americans (or First Americans) is the perfect designation that has nothing to do with genetics - or the false science thereof - it strictly is based off of time of arrival and, unlike "Native Americans", does not convey "specialness" to an early entity other than being early.
thak @ May 27th 2008 5:32PM
what came first....America...or the Early American?
CraigJ @ May 27th 2008 5:46PM
what about the pre-early-Americans
Matt @ May 27th 2008 7:37PM
Isn't that a David Bowie song?
Herbie555 @ May 27th 2008 5:41PM
Can't we just call them Aboriginal North Americans? ;-)
ReggieXuk @ May 27th 2008 6:09PM
how bouts you guys ask them what they called the place before it was claimed and renamed, then you guys decide if your gonna add that to the end of what your call yourselves.
Techdoc1 @ May 27th 2008 9:37PM
f--c--g racist.
In 10 years you will be running to North American Aboriginal Land to get a job there, enjoy it while you can here ,then the fall of Rome cometh upon you.....
Even Warren Buffet says so.
Dark @ May 27th 2008 6:42PM
Common RIM grow a pair of balls and stand up for users privacy.
Herbie555 @ May 28th 2008 10:08AM
Woah woah there Techdoc1. I hope the racist comment wasn't directed at me. (You replied to my comment, looks like).
ab·orig·i·nal
Pronunciation:
\ˌa-bə-ˈrij-nəl, -ˈri-jə-nəl\
Function:
adjective
Date:
1667
1: being the first or earliest known of its kind present in a region
I wasn't trying to be a dick, I was serious. The Canadian Government already recognizes "Aboriginal Peoples in Canada" as a legal category for those who self-identify as such, for the groups of Inuit, Metis, and Indian people who "have not chosen to accept the extinction of their rights of Sovereignty or Aboriginal Title of their lands." (Wikipedia).
And as for ReggieXuk, I'd be happy to ask "them" what they called the place but you'd have to specify whether you mean the people who live in the part of the country where I live now or the place where distant relatives came from. This is a really big place with literally hundreds of groups of aboriginal, indigenous, or "first" peoples, all with unique cultures and languages, which means hundreds of different names for the place.
If its the former, I would be a European-Kumeyaay. Having ancestors in both the Shawnee and Tuol peoples I suppose I could lay claim to European-Shawnee or Swedish-Tuolumne.
But then again, I've always just called myself an American.
Nelson @ May 29th 2008 4:03PM
That could never happened in America or could it! *drastic soap opera sound* Muahhhhh hahahaha muaahhh hahaha!
SKhan @ May 30th 2008 8:57AM
India is not the only country where RIM is offering their services then only indians have all these concerns and not rest of the countries ??