Indian Blackberry network given 15 days to allow government snooping or shut down
Written by admin on March 25th, 2008 in Gadgets.
Posted Mar 25th 2008 12:11PM by Nilay Patel
Filed under: cellphones
The last we’d heard, the Indian government had ruled out the threat of a Blackberry ban if RIM didn’t allow it to snoop on messages, but it looks like some overzealous bureaucrat is getting his way after all: the Department of Telecom has issued a 15-day deadline for RIM to either open up for the G-men or get shut down. RIM says it won’t comment on regulatory issues as a matter of policy, but it looks like the Indian government is playing hardball, with Telecom Minister A Raja saying that national security will not be sacrificed at any cost. Hmm, hear that? That’s the sound of over 400,000 Indian blackberry users desperately grabbing at their devices to get another quick fix — something tells us this isn’t going to end well.
[Via Cellpassion]
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