It appears India is not the only country concerned with getting access to BlackBerry Messenger conversations. The UAE (United Arab Emirates) telco was unable to monitor what people are saying on their BlackBerry’s. The solution is to institute a ban on internet access, email, and instant messaging on BlackBerry devices starting in October. BBM is not going to make it until October, the UAE plans to block that service later this month. Now RIM can bypass this block by complying with the request, but that will have a serious impact on RIM globally.
RIM is in one of the worst situations. RIM likely will not comply with the request (demands) of the UAE or India, but what if 5 or 10 more countries threaten a ban? If they comply how many countries will ask for the same data. It is almost damned if you do, damned if you don’t. Time will tell how this play out.
so for years RIM has done there best to keep our conversations BBM on there celfones as private as a letter dropped into a mailbox … the way it should be … right ???
suddenly governments decided we no longer have that privacy…
is some angry drunk fat redheaded commi going to start openning our letters at the post office to read our private conversations…is that next?
is that freedom …
if the government fears its citizens in such a way they need to read our correspondence … they must know they are sticking their heads way too far up our asses and fear retaliation…
if you kick a dog enough times it will turn on you and thats what they really fear…
keep inventing new taxes and new laws and noone will be able to stop what will ensue …
you cannot control what people think you morons …
There is a reason. And it has got nothing to do privacy. You do not have that even in the US. ALL your calls are snooped by the FBI or CIA. It’s just a simple procedure to get access to your phones. In India the Mumbai attacks were co-ordinated by people in Pakistan and some planners in the UAE (from where the funding was made). The UAE is an open country. You can come and go. Do business and what not .. no taxes. It’s a free zone. So it seems to be an ideal place for these kinds of guys to have a base out here where there is access to technology and communication. So it’s a co-ordinated plan. The messages made on blackberry messenger is encrypted communication. Messages was found on the handsets with the Guys in the Mumbai attacks. So Blackberry must comply with the agencies. There is no other way.
If the UAE is a fee zone then why would they want to ban the BB? See to me that they just like every other censoring governments are stickin their noses where it doesn’t belong. How much longer before everyone in the world decides it”s time their privacy being invaded has gone on long enough. We are not allowed access to their thoughts and memos nor should they be allowed in ours. My other concern if BB complies with these commy governments will that be a breach on our phones as well. Big brother has gotten way to big for our own good and needs to stop.