India Now Wants Access To Google and Skype 366
crabel writes "A couple of weeks ago India went after RIM and its mail service; it has extended its hunger for data now to all telecommunications. All telecom companies have to give them access to all voice over IP services that go in/out or happen within the country. Heck, they are even going after VPNs used by corporate employees working remotely."
Well... (Score:5, Informative)
Fuck doing business with India or Indian corporation/nationals.
S/MIME (Score:5, Informative)
There is a solution: Use S/MIME. This is the email encryption standard supported by all major mail clients without need for plugins. It can even work with web-based gmail using a firefox addon: http://richard.jones.name/google-hacks/gmail-smime/gmail-smime.html [jones.name]
You can create your own certificates or get free certificates from places like Comodo.
One quirk of S/MIME is that the subject line is not encrypted. This is a good place to add the text "India can suck my beef jerky" to every encrypted message.
vrtual privacy networks? (Score:3, Informative)
virtual private network, surely.
Or did some group decide to replace a perfectly good name with a crappy one?
Re:If only ... (Score:3, Informative)
Any action by the US government on this issue would not go over well diplomatically.
Re:Sevens Sins (Score:1, Informative)
I don't think a nation state with polytheistic Hindu as it's official religion
Nitpick time. India does not have a official religion, though the majority of the population follows Hinduism.
Re:Well... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:India = not all that democratic (Score:3, Informative)
"Lean toward?" India took billions of rubles in Soviet military equipment and actively participated in Soviet intelligence activities. Yeah, that's just "leaning toward."
Re:Well... (Score:4, Informative)
Case in point. In the '93 time frame, I worked in a AT&T factory (before they split off Lucent). One of the devices we manufactured was a small device that you connected to your telephone headset to encrypt your conversation (the other end would have to have a similar device).
The US government caught wind of it, came in and bought all the stock, and paid AT&T to not produce any more.
All the digital switches we produced were required by law to have a backdoor that the government could use at will to monitor calls.