Ahead of the August 31 deadline for BlackBerry to put on the table a solution to intercept its corporate email service, the government will hold a crucial meeting next week that could signal if the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) would face a blackout in India. Government sources said. The meeting would be chaired by Home secretary GK PIllai to review the progress
From August 31, The Indian Govt has extended the Deadline for 60days by thinking the BlackBerry customers and of course company too.
The U.A.E. market is relatively small for Canada’s Research In Motion Ltd., which makes the BlackBerry Smartphone. But the suspension comes amid unease by at least one other government, India, over the inability to monitor or review electronic communications via the device in criminal, terrorist or national-security investigations.
BlackBerry Issue: RIM offers technical solution
The India government has given RIM and service providers a deadline of August 31, 2010 to comply with its security requirements over BlackBerry email and messaging services. Authorities sent formal notices to the mobile operators informing that they must have the right equipment to monitor Blackberry services before 1 September 2010. Mobile operators including Tata Teleservices confirmed the receipt of letter from the Department of Telecommunications to ensure proper interception mechanism.
RIM technical team started discussions with India's telecommunications ministry and intelligence agencies to come up with a technical solution to avoid the ban on some of BlackBerry's services. The makers of the BlackBerry smartphone reportedly agreed to provide a monitoring method which would allow emails and chats shared between two BlackBerry devices to be intercepted and read by security agencies. RIM has already assured a manual access to its instant messages by September 1 and automated access by year end.
- 5,000 phones are actuality clearly broke circadian by Central agencies alone
- 11 Lakh users of BlackBerry in India
However, India wants more for its security issue. It wants a alongside BlackBerry server so that it can accept absolute time admission to the absolute network, including the awful defended and encrypted BlackBerry Action Account (BES) and the BlackBerry Agent Account (BMS). BlackBerry's email account through the BES is the defining action of the phones. It offers accumulated entities a defended way of centralized advice through a committed personalised server.
Cracking the Berry
India is not the abandoned country to arise burden on BlackBerry over aegis concerns
UAE: Suspension of BlackBerry email, agent and web-browsing casework from October 11
SAUDI ARABIA: Suspended casework for a day on August 6 to put burden on BlackBerry to abide their aegis concerns. Talks are on.
INDONESIA: Wants a server to be placed in the country. Considering a ban.
LEBANON: Reviewing the service
FRANCE: Ministers and bureaucrats are banned from application BlackBerrys over abstracts aegis issues
US: President Barack Obama acclimated a BlackBerry abundantly and banned to accord it up at Oval Office. He was accustomed to accumulate it with added security, about which he abundantly said that it was "no fun."
Off the Radar
Some advice casework abide out of borer range
Skype: Popular computer application that enables users to accomplish articulation calls over the Internet and additionally for burning messaging. Skype has become the better articulation carrier in the world.
Google: While Indian intelligence agencies accept been able to breach Yahoo and Hotmail msn messengers, it has bootless to breach into Google mail and Google Talk agent service, which use avant-garde encryption.
Freeware: In accession to accepted encrypted services, there are innumerable chargeless softwares accessible on the Internet, which a user can artlessly download to encrypt emails, added abstracts and articulation calls.
Inmarsat: 4 accessory buzz Fresh bearing sat phones can be monitored off the air but the chat cannot be decrypted, authoritative it accepted with terrorists and added anti-social characters.
A home admiral official said that these are all abiding solutions, which are actuality looked into. "We cannot sit aback and avoid what is staring us in the face. These technologies affect the adeptness of intelligence agencies to analyze agitator operations," he added. That may be true, but the Government is consistently disturbing to accumulate up with abstruse advances and counter-measures. While it is anytime accessible to arrange technology that invades privacy, technologies that enhance aloofness accomplish it nervous. Just like the 11 lakh BlackBerry users.
