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Written by Dave Burstein
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Saturday, 04 August 2012 13:19 |
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RIM denies corporate Blackberries are tappable. India has wanted total wiretap ability on Blackberries since the Mumbai attacks in 2008 but the company has been resisting. Since RIM obviously provides similar to the U.S. government - we wouldn’t allow them to operate otherwise - the grounds for resisting the Indian government demands were unclear. According to the Economic Times, RIM is now providing “encryption keys for its secure corporate emails and popular messenger services ... satisfies India's core demand that RIM provide intelligence and security agencies with automatic solutions to monitor all communication on BlackBerry smartphones on a real-time basis.” Their source was inside the Indian government.
RIM denied this story to Reuters, whic h is why I added the question mark to the headline. Truth is elusive on most deep security issues. Blackberry has fallen far behind iPhone and Android. Asia, especially India, is the only strong market for RIM. It’s hard to imagine they continued to resist the government threat to totally shut them down. They have ambitious plans to come back, which Jennie documented for them at http://www.blackberryappsproject.com/
This kind of security issue underpins the real fight at WCIT over who controls the net.
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