RIM Reaches Temporary Agreement With India

Canadian_Daemon writes with news that India has granted a 60-day reprieve for their threat to ban BlackBerry devices while the government evaluates RIM's proposal for "lawful access" to users' encrypted data. "The Ministry of Home Affairs said in a statement it would review the situation in 60 days after the Department of Telecommunications studies the feasibility of routing BlackBerry services through a server in India. India wants greater access to encrypted corporate e-mails and instant messaging, though it remains unclear precisely what concessions Research In Motion agreed to in order to avert the ban. About one million BlackBerry users would have been affected in India. 'RIM have made certain proposals for lawful access by law enforcement agencies and these would be operationalized immediately. The feasibility of the solutions offered would be assessed thereafter,' the ministry said."

Sneakernet

[iamhigh]

This is why sneakernets will never go away; perhaps they become even more valuable in this new era where the government must be able to know all of your communications... just in case, you know.

That was central to the plot of the Matrix; just replace machines with upper caste.

Re:Also Banning IMAP+SSL?

[alen]

you can scan the traffic from the ISP's. blackberries are encrypted at the phone itself along with 3G and other encryption

or in the real world a tiny minority of people are going to be using IMAP + SSL or HTTPS to check email. since this is outside the USA and there are less rights to worry about, just follow those people

Re:Same deal USA has

[omglolbah]

Yup, that is why you want your own layer of encryption where you have control over the keys.

Only a matter of time before such a thing is illegal again I fear.