|
India to Ban Blackberrys... Google, Skype could be next |
|
|
|
|
Wednesday, 02 March 2011 |
|
India’s government has reiterated to BlackBerry manufacturer Research in Motion, and other companies providing encryption in their products, that they will have to be open to internal security and intelligence services if they wish to continue operating in the region.
Under this premise, Google and Skype could also be forced to shut down in the country if it cannot provide keys to its services.
Research in Motion has already given provision to the Indian security and intelligence agencies to intercept BlackBerry Messenger, used by many in oppressive regimes to avoid detection by state authorities by younger users in particular, under the premise of preventing future terrorist attacks in the country.
But the BlackBerry manufacturer stresses that it cannot give away encryption keys to corporate email services, because the company simply does not have access to them to give them away, and are instead held by the customer who bought the technology.To explain the difficulty of allowing a government to access Skype’s communications, one of the worlds leading intelligence organisations, the US National Security Agency, is still offering ‘billions’ for a solution to their eavesdropping needs on the peer-to-peer voice network.
|
