India Demanding That RIM Let It Snoop On Encrypted Email Messages
from the let-us-eavesdrop-or-no-more-crackberry dept
It's certainly no secret that governments like to snoop on various forms of communication whenever possible, but they're usually not quite so blatant about the specifics. Endgadget points us to the news that Indian security officials have demanded that RIM open up a backdoor to unencrypt all messages sent via the Blackberry network or face being shutdown in India. With approximately 400,000 Crackberry users in India, that's likely to upset quite a few people. At this point, though, do people doing things likely to attract the attention of the feds not know to seek out more secure means of communication?
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what right's ???
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RIM needs to refuse. The Indian government is basically trying extortion tactics to acquire trade secrets.
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Why bother asking, anyway?
With all the brilliant engineers India produces, why can't they just infiltrate RIM's local ops, and do it on the sly like the FBI did with Carnivore .. ?
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Also, this is not just a problem with India. Politicians all over the world are the same, be it the US that often blindly prides itself on its (technical) superiority, or some crappy underdeveloped African country. It's only a matter of scale.
P.S. I'd any day take the Indian Govt.'s open, albeit ham-handed attempt at raising the security bogey compared to the US Govt. that has repeatedly shown a complete and utter disregard for any sort of privacy for its own citizens. You want brazen phone tapping? How about snooping on your e-mails, text messages etc.? You name it, it's been and is being done to you already. If you like it, then be proud of staying in the US, UK etc., where even George Orwell would be shocked...
P.P.S. If any of you dismiss this as the ramblings of a deranged, delusional conspiracy-theorist, my friend, you're so sadly out of touch with reality that it is actually painful. Kindly do wake up before it is too late...
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This seems pretty clueless
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Really?
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Terrorism in India......
Compare that to India where hundreds of thousands of people have been victims of terrorism. Even now tens of people die every week. With terrorists becoming tech savy I am not surprised by this move (although it concerns me)
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Really?
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To bad for the citizens of India.
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Who has secrets?
But people with real things to hide won't depend on RIM's encryption. The Indian goverment wants to find the stuff thats being encrypted by something other then RIM's system.
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