Government may soon find BlackBerry solution
May 16, 2008, Kalyan Parbat and Joji Thomas Philip, The Economic Times
This news report talks about the recent developments in the controversy over monitoring Blackberry traffic in India. It started when the Canadian company Research in Motion (RIM) that owns Blackberry services in India, refused to share the decryption code with the Department of Telecommunications (DoT). This had raised security concerns since the security agencies could not monitor the data that were being sent due to the high encryption codes. According to this report, San Jose-based Cain Technologies and SS8 Networks will demonstrate their interception equipment to the DoT and Intelligence Bureau (IB) and that if the demonstrations are successful, the government will direct RIM to install the interception solution on Indian mobile networks.