Tuesday, February 1, 2011

India calls on BlackBerry tracking corporate messages

The situation of the Canadian manufacturer of BlackBerry, RIM, worse in India. After opening the offer messaging from their smartphones excluding channel tracking corporate messages, the Indian government has said it is insufficient supply of RIM. "RIM has a solution for their messaging service but also insist that the service must be offered for business." The authorities believe that this channel is used by terrorists and wants access to track your traffic.

RIM has insisted that the company can not offer because the encryption system is a high level and is in the hands of the client companies, not the manufacturer. India had given a deadline that expires today for RIM offer a satisfactory alternative. It is unknown what the consequences of the statement of discontent.

India has threatened to ban the sale of their phones. RIM had offered partial access to messaging about 400,000 customers in the country. RIM has sold about 600,000 units last year in India. Such requirements on the BlackBerry messaging are not unique to India. Saudi Arabia made a similar claim in Indonesia, RIM has blocked access to sites deemed pornographic by the authorities.

Initially, the company considered satisfy the authorities that demanded access to your messaging with the installation of servers in countries that pose the conflict, but installing them does not solve the access to corporate traffic encryption.

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