RIM to give in to GAK in India

[Florian Weimer]

* Dave Korn:

>>    In a major change of stance, Canada-based Research In Motion (RIM)
>>    may allow the Indian government to intercept non-corporate emails
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>>    sent over BlackBerrys.


>   Research In Motion (RIM), the Canadian company behind the BlackBerry
>   handheld, has refused to give the Indian government special access to
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>   its encrypted email services.   [ ... ]
>   
>   According to the Times of India, the company said in a statement:
>
>     The BlackBerry security architecture for enterprise customers is
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>   purposefully designed to exclude the capability for RIM or any third
>   party to read encrypted information under any circumstances. We regret

>   [  Hmm, two contradictory stories, whoever woulda thunk it?  There's
> probably some politicking going on, mixed up with marketeering and
> FUD-spinning.  ]

If you look closely, there's no contradiction.  Non-enterprise customers
don't run their own gateway, so RIM just acts as a telco, which
naturally has got access to all the data.  The Indian government doesn't
need "special access", either, because Lawful Intercept services etc.
aren't that special anymore.

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