• RIM Gives India Access to Consumer Messaging

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    Joe Jerde
    Published on 01-13-2011 04:43 PM
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    Research In Motion has finally settled its long-running dispute with the Indian government over its BlackBerry Messenger Service–part of it, anyway. Now giving wireless carriers in the country the ability to intercept messages sent over its BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) service and BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) if requested by the government.

    “The lawful access capability now available to RIM’s carrier partners meets the standard required by the government of India for all consumer messaging services offered in the Indian marketplace,” RIM said in a customer update.
    This statement isn't entirely true. The Indian government also wants access to communications sent over RIM’s corporate service. RIM hasn’t yet provided that and continues to argue that it’s impossible to do so.

    “No changes can be made to the security architecture for BlackBerry Enterprise Server customers since, contrary to any rumors, the security architecture is the same around the world and RIM truly has no ability to provide its customers’ encryption keys,” RIM explained in its customer update.
    So, basically RIM has provided a partial solution to the government of India.





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