RIM, the Canadian maker of BlackBerry, has announced that it will provide the Government of India access to enterprise messaging on their phones. India had set a deadline that expires on January 31 for the company to offer a solution that would allow authorities access to emails and messages that are exchanged business through RIM's own system.
The Canadian company had agreed that the Indian authorities could control the exchange of public chats and instant messaging, but the problem occurred with the corporate mail using powerful encryption. India could shut down RIM's service for reasons of national security. RIM has in the country 1.1 million subscribers.
"There is no solution. There is no decryption key for business messages," said one manager of the company. The key is in the hands of companies that use the service. Had been raised to install servers in India, as demanded by the Government to other companies (Google and Skype, among them) but this did not solve the access to this type of messaging, highly encrypted, and that the Indian authorities fear it is used for terrorist purposes.
India is not the only country where RIM is facing such a request. This year has blocked access to pornographic sites in Indonesia. 
The Canadian company had agreed that the Indian authorities could control the exchange of public chats and instant messaging, but the problem occurred with the corporate mail using powerful encryption. India could shut down RIM's service for reasons of national security. RIM has in the country 1.1 million subscribers.
"There is no solution. There is no decryption key for business messages," said one manager of the company. The key is in the hands of companies that use the service. Had been raised to install servers in India, as demanded by the Government to other companies (Google and Skype, among them) but this did not solve the access to this type of messaging, highly encrypted, and that the Indian authorities fear it is used for terrorist purposes.
India is not the only country where RIM is facing such a request. This year has blocked access to pornographic sites in Indonesia.
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- UPDATE 1-RIM says no access to corporate email in India (27/01/2011)
- RIM: Indian access to corporate BlackBerry mail impossible (27/01/2011)
- RIM gives India access to BlackBerry data (18/01/2011)
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