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(ZDNet) Interesting Apple, RIM and Nokia giving backdoor access to their phones to India military?   (zdnet.com) divider line 11
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WTF Indeed
2012-01-08 04:40:00 PM
With a population of billion people, I'm surprised they didn't give each general in the Indian military a rim job.
 
GreenAdder [TotalFark]
2012-01-08 04:46:45 PM
WTF Indeed: With a population of billion people, I'm surprised they didn't give each general in the Indian military a rim job.

They're giving them backdoor access. Isn't that enough?
 
Snarfangel
2012-01-08 05:53:13 PM
India's government is surely more trustworthy than some company that cares only about profit.
 
JasonOfOrillia
2012-01-08 05:59:58 PM
RIM went through a whole thing a couple of years ago where there were going to be banned from India if they didn't allow government access to their e-mail traffic. This isn't that surprising.
 
WhoIsNotInMyKitchen
2012-01-08 06:25:39 PM
How is this any different from what other police-state nations are doing?

N. Korea (check!)
China (check!)
Saudi Arabia (check!)
United States (check!)

Thank you patriot act for continuing to make the US a shining light for freedom in the world and setting an example for other nations to follow.
 
airsupport
2012-01-08 06:32:14 PM
Is English the standard language of internal Indian bureaucracy?

Also, anyone else catch that part in the stolen USCC communications about General Electric clandestinely slipping engines and avionics to China?

That can't be good.
 
zedster [TotalFark]
2012-01-08 06:44:06 PM
old news is old

RIM has been doing this for awhile, the security features of personal devices are given up in return for governments allowing RIM to do business there, the BES (BlackBerry Enterprise Server) business features are left untouched. So all the Pakistani terrorist have to do is run a BES server

For the most part things like Carrier IQ are not actually needed as GSM has been cracked for a long time and the cell com servers are able to read any un-encrypted data. All that is happening is the cell companies/governments are given access to any encryption keys included with the consumer devices.

Also, the NSA has data taps sitting on most if not all tier 1 servers in the US, don't think this level of access is left to governments like India and Qatar
 
CBob
2012-01-08 06:56:26 PM
Not news.

The fact that anybody got access to the documentation - BAD

The underplayed (oh, it was an old version) news is they had the source code to SEP & lost that as well.

SEP (was) a decent client based enterprise platform.
 
Tourney3p0
2012-01-08 07:10:19 PM
If this was true, Anonymous wouldn't even exist anymore. Hipsters love iPhones. All three RIM users have already been taken into custody.
 
pup.socket
2012-01-08 09:55:52 PM
I doubt very much that this is limited only to India, or only to Apple, Nokia and RIM. I've seen transcripts of skype chats from the secret service of a fresh East European democracy.


Tourney3p0: If this was true, Anonymous wouldn't even exist anymore.

If you'd seen that very old movie in which Natalie Portman shaved herself bald, "Brazil" was the name I believe, you'd realize anonymous is a part of the government and that the ending was just a dream in the torture chamber.
 
imagonyx123
2012-01-09 12:12:30 AM
With the RIM, isn't backdoor access kind of expected?
 
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