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.
The agencies had asked RIM to share the encryption codes but, the root of the problem lies elsewhere.
The key problem was that Indian agencies do not have the required technology to monitor data that has encryption codes higher than 40 bits.
Indeed. Could somebody from Narus kindly call these people?