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Research In Motion (RIM), the Canadian company behind the BlackBerryhandheld, has refused to give the Indian government special access toits encrypted email services. Indian authorities have previouslyevinced concern that terrorists or criminals might use BlackBerries tocommunicate free from government interception.
According to the Times of India, the company said in a statement:
The BlackBerry security architecture for enterprisecustomers is purposefully designed to exclude the capability for RIM orany third party to read encrypted information under any circumstances.We regret any concern prompted by incorrect speculation or rumours andwish to assure customers that RIM is committed to continue servingsecurity-conscious business in the Indian market.
Previous reports have suggested that the Indian government hadsought only the ability to read information sent between consumerBlackBerry users, rather than enterprise platforms. There had beenmedia talk of a "master key" to be given to Indian officials.
Regarding the assertion that third parties are completely unable toread BlackBerry messages, this contradicts the view taken by the Frenchgovernment. France recentlybanned the use of BlackBerries by its top officials. French securitytypes had apparently noted that BlackBerry's secure traffic passedthrough servers in Britain and the US, and felt that there was at leastsome chance of interception by the likes of GCHQ and the NSA.
India currently has a little over 100,000 BlackBerry users. Thesecurity/intercept issue became public when Tata teleservices was askedto delay its BlackBerry launch date until the Indian Department ofTelecoms had intercept methods in place.