RIM Growing A Backbone – Why Did It Take So Long?

Thanks to Raffy for sending this one in. RIM is finally holding its own against the requests from India’s government. They have answered that they do not have the technology (and should not) to decrypt and spy on their users emails.

From the coverage by the WSJ’s Livemint.com:

“The Blackberry security architecture for enterprise customers is purposefully designed to exclude the capability for RIM or any third party to read encrypted information under any circumstances,” the company said in a statement.

I personally thought that this whole fiasco should have ended at day 1. RIM should have just made the same statement and said sorry guys no-can-do. Did they really think it would be a good idea to set a precedent for monitoring the BlackBerry email network? That would compromise the whole security not to mention the reputation of the BlackBerry infrastructure as a whole.

So RIM, I have to ask. What took so long?

• Digg
• Delicious
• Facebook
• Google
• Sphinn
• Newsvine
• Reddit
• Slashdot
• SphereIt
• StumbleUpon
• Technorati

You can follow any responses to this entry through the Comments Feed.
Previous Post: Proxpro Beta – Proximity & Traffic Alerts Free On Your BlackBerry »
Next Post: Severe Weather Alerts By RSS, SMS, Or Email »

Related Articles:

• Are You Worried About People/Government Snooping on your Email?
• Bell Canada crippling BB Maps?
• Yammer: (Practically) Free Private Corporate Social Network with a BlackBerry Client
• FAQ: Understanding MicroSD File Encryption Modes On Your BlackBerry
• RIM Spies on Their Employees BlackBerry phones… Surprised?

Latest Articles:

• Send A Tip And You Could Win $50!!! June Winner Announced
• Where Babies Come From & Other Answers to Hard Questions
• WhereAmI: See Your Location on Your Storm Background (9500 GSM Only)
• WiFi Cafe Spots Stores Database of Free WiFi on Your BlackBerry