| WHY SHOULD INDIAN GOVERNMENT REJECTS | | | | the firm in turn will decrypt the BlackBerry Messenger |
| BLACKBERRY OFFER | | | | (BBM) and BlackBerry Enterprise mail Service (BES) of |
| Indian government rejects | | | | the smartphones in question, sources in the Telecom |
| Blackberry offer because of the toughening is stand | | | | Ministry said. |
| and the government has conveyed to the blackberry | | | | The RIM officials were ready to provide the |
| maker to install it server in Indian for tracking its | | | | information initially manually and later through a |
| messager and the enterprise mail service as the | | | | non-human interface using the "cloud computing |
| offer made by its provide data from its canada | | | | environment" method under which a separate wall |
| based server could be detrimental to national | | | | created in the server and code and pass-code is |
| security. | | | | handed over to the overall coordinator, in this case |
| oficals of the blackberry | | | | India, the sources said. |
| maker RIM(Research In Motion) had offered to | | | | However, the proposal was rejected prima facie as |
| provide information on a deffered basis after if faced | | | | security agencies claimed that handing over telephone |
| the threat of a shutdown of the core features by | | | | numbers for monitoring was fraught with the danger |
| augest 31 if security agencies cannot gain access to | | | | of exposing the source to an outside company and |
| heavily encrypted corporate email sent on a | | | | thus can be detrimental to country's security, the |
| blackberry handset | | | | sources said. |
| The RIM had provided an | | | | Even the automated system of extracting |
| option to the security agencies and officials of the | | | | information from Canada-based server was not free |
| Home Ministry that they could hand over the details | | | | of danger because the information could be hacked |
| of BlackBerry phones needed to be monitored and | | | | midway, the sources said. |