Newspaper: BlackBerry sends the client traffic to the Indian authorities
Canadian BlackBerry is ready to provide opportunities for the Indian authorities to intercept communications of its clients, working with BlackBerry Meggenger. It is reported by the Indian business publication Times of India with reference to closed government documents at the disposal of the publication. Publication said that officials in the country promised to abandon plans to block BlackBerry work in India in exchange for access to client traffic. Interestingly, the article says that authorities have access, including to corporate servers and BlackBerry Enterprise Server.
The system is hosted on the servers and the BlackBerry client is not physically have access to it. The article does not say exactly how the Indian federal government will have access to a BlackBerry Enterprise Server in the data centers of companies. edition, however note that these solutions - it's isolation nearly 4-year-old dispute between the two parties. In 2010, the country has threatened to close the operation of the service BlackBerry, if the company will provide access to messaging clients. The authorities declared that it was necessary to fight terrorists and religious extremists. In the BlackBerry (at that point yet Research in Motion) has stated that access to the traffic is encrypted strong encryption algorithm, and even the company itself just does not have the ability to open traffic.
Moreover, the company has not once said that she has no "master key" , which would give access to traffic of any client, regardless of passwords and encryption standards. Times of India wrote that access to corporate servers India can not just physically, but BlackBerry, probably, will supply lists of corporate clients and those authorities will be able to do with contact them for access. The article said that the Ministry of Telecommunications of India gets access to consumer version of BBM, can see what messages have been sent and received, as well as monitor the websites visited.
The Indian representative BlackBerry does not give detailed comments on the topic of collaboration with the secret police, but say they provide "legal information" to the authorities. Note that having understood the BlackBerry, the authorities set about Apple and its system of iMessage, access to the office, they also want to get. According to The Wall Street Journal, Apple has refused the demands of the authorities. The company said that the traffic in iMessage is encrypted at the end-user - the sender and the recipient, which are themselves set the keys and the company has no access to these keys.
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