Indian Government May Opt for Third Party BlackBerry Decryption

By Nathesh, TMCnet Contributing Editor An announcement from the Ministry of Telecom in India has stated that if Research In Motion (RIM) sticks to its inability to provide ways to decrypt the BlackBerry e-mail encryption than the government will be forced to look in to the option of third party tools to crack BlackBerry. "If they fail to come up with any satisfactory solution, we will invoke other options. We have been approached by other companies with solutions to decrypt the data passed over the BlackBerry network," said Telecom Minister, A Raja, during a presentation to the country's Department of Telecommunications. This problem started when the Indian security agencies began to ask for access and the ability to intercept e-mails sent over RIM's BlackBerry service from RIM. The Indian government feared that such a device... [read full story]