Both the Saudi Arabian and Indian government have been giving RIM the gears over the past couple weeks over security concerns. They’ve threatened at one point or another to shut down the BlackBerry service if RIM doesn’t comply with their security requirements, specifically when it comes to BBM, internet browser and e-mail. RIM has issued a statement that outlines 4 basic points where they would allow “lawful” access:
1. The carriers’ capabilities be limited to the strict context of lawful access and national security requirements as governed by the country’s judicial oversight and rules of law.
2. The carriers’ capabilities must be technology and vendor neutral, allowing no greater access to BlackBerry consumer services than the carriers and regulators already impose on RIM’s competitors and other similar communications technology companies.
3. No changes to the security architecture for BlackBerry Enterprise Server customers since, contrary to any rumors, the security architecture is the same around the world and RIM truly has no ability to provide its customers’ encryption keys. Also driving RIM’s position is the fact that strong encryption is a fundamental commercial requirement for any country to attract and maintain international business anyway and similarly strong encryption is currently used pervasively in traditional VPNs on both wired and wireless networks in order to protect corporate and government communications.
4. RIM maintains a consistent global standard for lawful access requirements that does not include special deals for specific countries.
Source: RIM
via: IntoMobile & BBCool
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