Earlier this month, as first reported by ET, Canada’s RIM had told the home ministry that it had complied with the Indian government’s mandate to provide interception tools for BlackBerry Messenger chats.
"We are happy to confirm that as per the compliance schedule agreed by both Research in Motion and the Ministry Of Home Affairs , RIM infrastructure is ready to receive and process via the cloud computing based system, lawfully intercepted BlackBerry messenger data from India service providers," the Canadian company's vice president of industry, government and university relations, Robert E Crow had said in a communication to the home ministry.
In a communication to the telecoms department, home ministry’s joint secretary Dharmendra Sharma said that RIM had agreed to provide a final solution to its messenger chat services by January 31, 2001, while adding that ‘according to the Canadian company, the cloud based computing system was the final solution it was putting in place by January-end’ for this facility. ET reviewed the December 23 communication from the home ministry to the telecoms department on this issue.
On Thursday, ET had reported that RIM had offered to to install a network data analysis system at its premises in India, to end the three-year standoff between the Canadian company and security agencies here that have been demanding access to BlackBerry communications. But, RIM on Thursday in a statement said that it had not provided any access to its highly-secure corporate emails.
"There will be no change to the security model of BlackBerry Enterprise Service,” the company said. "The government of India has in fact accepted and acknowledged that any concerns about the use of strong encryption for corporate and government data is not a matter specific to BlackBerry and that lawful access to such encrypted data is actually an industry matter," its statement added.
The home ministry’s note sent internally said that RIM’s network data analysis system, which it proposed to install in India, had the capabilities to automatically decode data flowing on the Canadian company’s network, "In the final solution proposed by RIM, the decoding will be automatic. Intercepted and decoded data will not travel out of India. RIM has proposed to install [network data analysis systems] in India. In the final solution, intercepted and decoded data will travel between service providers and RIM India,” the home ministry note issued by its deputy director Arvind Kumar had added.
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