Indian Agencies Getting Blackberry Jitters

Author: Dave Lewis
July 14, 2008 at 5:01 am · Filed under Mobile, Monitoring, Politics

It
turns out that Indian government agencies are getting their knickers in
a twist over the Blackberry and its use of encryption. Love it or hate
it, its a solid piece of mobility goodness.

The real rub here, that has them bothered, is their apparent
inability to monitor the communications. The government has asked the
NSA…no, not them, but rather, the National Security Advisor to find a
way to listen in.

From The Hindu Business Line:

The discussions are being held to find a spot on RIM’s
network where the data traffic passing through Blackberry could be
intercepted by security agencies.

The agencies had earlier rejected any temporary solution to the
Blackberry controversy and told the Government that it must make sure
that traffic originating and terminating on the device should not
travel outside the country without proper monitoring.

FFS. Give me a break. They’re blaming RIM because they can’t figure out how to intercept traffic?

Bloody hell.