After mondays meeting with RIM, Home Ministry officials gave BlackBerry a two-month reprieve. The Indian Ministry of Home Affairs said in an official statement that they would come back to the subject in 60 days after the “Department of Telecommunications studies the feasibility of routing BlackBerry services through a server in India.” BlackBerry’s owners, Canada based Research in Motion, were given time to assess the easibility of the interception solutions they had offered. To ward off any insinuations that it was targeting only BlackBerry services , the ministry has decided to widen its net and ask other firms like Skype and Google to also provide access to their instant messaging services.
“RIM have made certain proposals for lawful access by law enforcement agencies and these will be operationalised immediately. The feasibility will be assessed thereafter,” a home ministry spokesperson said.
Their main concern is BES as well as BlackBerry Messenger, the two services that so far cannot be decrypted by intelligence agencies.Why this is considered a threat globally? Well because these governments fear these services could be misused by terrorist elements.
via: hindustantimes