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RIM’s woes: Company says does not have facility to allow monitoring of emails
TT Correspondent |  New Delhi |  04 Aug 2010

Research in Motion (RIM) is in for hard times not only in India but also in some of the other markets across the world.

While the company recently committed to Indian authorities that it is ready to cooperate on working towards addressing the security concerns of its services, the company in a statement issued on Tuesday said that it does not have facility to allow monitoring of encrypted emails eventually implying that the company itself does not have a security mechanism in place that can allow lawful interception.

“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,” said RIM.

On the security concerns raised by governments of different countries including India, UAE and Bahrain, RIM said, “Governments have a wide range of resources and methodologies to satisfy national security and law enforcement needs without compromising commercial security requirements.”

“RIM does not possess a master key nor does any back door exists in the system that would allow RIM or any third party to gain an unauthorised access to the key or corporate data,” the company said. This means government agencies can not have access to any backup or copy of the email communication since the RIM system itself does not retains such a copy.

RIM was under Indian security agencies’ radar earlier as well a couple of years ago when the government had asked it to implement a mechanism that will allow the security agencies to intercept communications initiated within the RIM system.

    
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