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RE: RIM to give in to GAK in India
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Korn)
Tue May 27 16:55:35 2008
From: "Dave Korn" <dave.korn@artimi.com>
To: "'Florian Weimer'" <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Cc: "'Perry E. Metzger'" <perry@piermont.com>,
<cryptography@metzdowd.com>
Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 20:08:11 +0100
In-Reply-To: <873ao33af2.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
Florian Weimer wrote on 27 May 2008 18:49:
> * 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
> **************
>> its encrypted email services. [ ... ]
>>
>> According to the Times of India, the company said in a statement:
>>
>> The BlackBerry security architecture for enterprise customers is
> ********************
>> 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.
Well spotted. Yes, I guess that's what Jim Youll was asking. And I
should have said "seemingly-contradictory". This is, of course, what I
meant by "marketeering": when someone asks if your service is insecure and
interceptable, you don't say "Yes, our ordinary service will give you up to
the filth at the drop of a hat", you spin it as "No, our enterprise service
is completely secure [...other details elided...]".
cheers,
DaveK
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