Saturday 28 August 2010

WHY BLACKBERRY IS A HEADACHE FOR GOVERNMENT?

Blackberry is an Canadian based service provider with millions of users in almost every big country which includes India also but what is there which government does not like about Blackberry? It is their messaging services which does not allow intelligence agencies to intercept the mail send from the a Blackberry user to other. This is because Blackberry has its server in Canada and encryption level is so high that it is almost impossible to crack the message.
So you will think what is problem with that, Blackberry providing one good feature to its customers. But this the concern of Home Ministry and Intelligence agencies is that terrorist groups can also use these services to transmit their messages to each other and this can't be monitored by intelligence agencies so it poses national threat to national security.
So what is the solution?
Government is saying that Research in Motion (RIM), the makers of Blackberry should set up their server in India so that intelligence agencies could monitor the messages sent via Blackberry phones. If Blackberry does not comply with the conditions of government millions of Blackberry customers will not be use this service in future.

India is not the inly one to raise this issue , United Arab Emirates also put forward similar kinds of concern in front of RIM.

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