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Re: RIM to give in to GAK in India
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Tue May 27 13:56:41 2008
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: "Dave Korn" <dave.korn@artimi.com>
Cc: "'Perry E. Metzger'" <perry@piermont.com>, <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 19:48:49 +0200
In-Reply-To: <044501c8c015$b4154c40$2708a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> (Dave Korn's
message of "Tue, 27 May 2008 17:21:22 +0100")
* Dave Korn:
>> In a major change of stance, Canada-based Research In Motion (RIM)
>> may allow the Indian government to intercept non-corporate emails
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>> sent over BlackBerrys.
> Research In Motion (RIM), the Canadian company behind the BlackBerry
> handheld, has refused to give the Indian government special access to
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> its encrypted email services. [ ... ]
>
> According to the Times of India, the company said in a statement:
>
> The BlackBerry security architecture for enterprise customers is
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> purposefully designed to exclude the capability for RIM or any third
> party to read encrypted information under any circumstances. We regret
> [ Hmm, two contradictory stories, whoever woulda thunk it? There's
> probably some politicking going on, mixed up with marketeering and
> FUD-spinning. ]
If you look closely, there's no contradiction. Non-enterprise customers
don't run their own gateway, so RIM just acts as a telco, which
naturally has got access to all the data. The Indian government doesn't
need "special access", either, because Lawful Intercept services etc.
aren't that special anymore.
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