'Banning BlackBerry service will be counterproductive'
New Delhi: BlackBerry manufacturers have suggested forming of a joint consultative forum comprising government, users and service providers for drawing up procedures to intercept services likes Enterprise Mail as banning the service would be "counterproductive".
In a letter to Cabinet Secretary K M Chandrasekhar, Canada-based Research In Motion (RIM), makers of BlackBerry, virtually refused to provide an intercepting technology for its BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) and said it had provided options to Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) within India's existing techno-legal framework.
The RIM said the BES service uses standard technology which was no different from any of the other encryption products used to provide Virtual Private Network on both wireless and wired networks.
RIM said it also strongly believed that the concerns of LEA and the government can only be effectively addressed in a wider dialogue between government and industry.
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