Canadian Communication giant has made it clear that they won’t let any type of access for Indian Government to the corporate emails sent from India using a Blackberry device. As we know any information exchanged between Blackberry devices are encrypted using strong keys which makes it hard to anyone from outside to get access to whats inside. Now the Indian Government had given RIM till the end of this month to come up with a way for the security agencies to monitor the encrypted data or face a shutdown of the service.
Earlier this month RIM did hand over a solution to the carriers here for the consumer side, that is BBM and the BIS email most of us use. But when it comes to the BlackBerry Enterprise Server used by companies, RIM says there is nothing to give. Robert Crow, a senior RIM executive told reporters in New Delhi that “there is no solution, there are no keys”. According to him the keys sit with the corporate enterprises themselves and neither RIM nor the operators ever have them, so they simply cant hand them over.
Remember RIM has around 1.1 million customers in India, so a shutdown would be a real mess. Lets see what the government does on the 31st. Stay tuned!!
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