Friday, September 3, 2010

Why India wants Blackberry to be Banned?

Why? The coding and encryptions used in the email and messenger service in a blackberry is impossible to crack and has become the primary mode of communication for terrorists and high value money lenders.

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Indian threatens to ban Blackberry for security reasons. There are legitimate reasons why the Indian Governments has asked for a ban. 
 The main danger lies in the Email and Messenger services available on a blackberry. Blackberry uses a extremely high level of encryption and coding methods through servers located in Canada and are merely impossible to crack. This high level security has become a concern for Indian Intelligence agencies who believes it has become the primary mode of communication for terrorists and high value money lenders.

On 30th Aug'10 blackberry gets a breather- Indian government has extended its ban for two more months.

Along with india UAE suspects Blackberry to be a spy tool and have plans to ban it by October.





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RIM averts BlackBerry ban in India... for now


It was facing an August 31st deadline before India banned BlackBerry service in the country, but it looks like RIM has now managed to avoid that scenario -- at least for a little while. According to India's Ministry of Home Affairs, 'RIM have made certain proposals for lawful access by law enforcement agencies and these would be operationalized immediately,' and that 'the feasibility of the solutions offered would be assessed thereafter.' Details are still a bit light beyond that, but India's assessment will apparently come after 60 days, and there's still no guarantee that we won't end up back at square one at that point. Interestingly, India is also still raising complaints about Gmail and Skype, with it now saying that it wants Google and Skype to set up servers in the country that would give it greater monitoring capabilities.