India in row over BlackBerry security
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February 1, 2011, Tuesday
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The Indian government rejected yesterday Research In Motion's offer to allow it only partial access to its BlackBerry data services, while neighboring Pakistan reversed its earlier decision to restrict the popular smartphone's services.
It was not immediately clear what the Indian government, which says it is driven by security concerns, would now do after the Canadian smartphone maker failed to fulfill demands to monitor encrypted corporate email by a January 31 deadline. RIM had previously said it was -confident India would not ban its services.
Earlier this month, RIM said it had given India the means to access its Messenger service ahead of the deadline but reiterated that it could not give the authorities access to monitor secure corporate emails.
Indian Home (Interior) Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram told a news conference the government still wanted access to emails.
"I think a decision will be taken today by the MHA (Ministry of Home Affairs)," Chidambaram added.
RIM encrypts email messages as they travel between a BlackBerry device and a computer known as BlackBerry Enterprise Server.
The Canadian smartphone maker has said that it does not have a master key to decode emails, adding that each organization would have the technical capability to grant access to its own encrypted enterprise emails.
It was not immediately clear what the Indian government, which says it is driven by security concerns, would now do after the Canadian smartphone maker failed to fulfill demands to monitor encrypted corporate email by a January 31 deadline. RIM had previously said it was -confident India would not ban its services.
Earlier this month, RIM said it had given India the means to access its Messenger service ahead of the deadline but reiterated that it could not give the authorities access to monitor secure corporate emails.
Indian Home (Interior) Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram told a news conference the government still wanted access to emails.
"I think a decision will be taken today by the MHA (Ministry of Home Affairs)," Chidambaram added.
RIM encrypts email messages as they travel between a BlackBerry device and a computer known as BlackBerry Enterprise Server.
The Canadian smartphone maker has said that it does not have a master key to decode emails, adding that each organization would have the technical capability to grant access to its own encrypted enterprise emails.
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