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    Security agencies in India are testing ways to access emails on BlackBerry devices through a solution provided by Research in Motion (RIM). RIM was given a deadline of August 31st to provide an intercept solution for its email and messenger services or face a ban. Officials are checking if they can monitor emails when they are briefly stored on an enterprise server between BlackBerry devices. RIM is working with security agencies to resolve the issue and provide a solution that allows monitoring while maintaining encryption.

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    Security agencies in India are testing ways to access emails on BlackBerry devices through a solution provided by Research in Motion (RIM). RIM was given a deadline of August 31st to provide an intercept solution for its email and messenger services or face a ban. Officials are checking if they can monitor emails when they are briefly stored on an enterprise server between BlackBerry devices. RIM is working with security agencies to resolve the issue and provide a solution that allows monitoring while maintaining encryption.

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    Blackberry Security Issue 0810

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    Security agencies in India are testing ways to access emails on BlackBerry devices through a solution provided by Research in Motion (RIM). RIM was given a deadline of August 31st to provide an intercept solution for its email and messenger services or face a ban. Officials are checking if they can monitor emails when they are briefly stored on an enterprise server between BlackBerry devices. RIM is working with security agencies to resolve the issue and provide a solution that allows monitoring while maintaining encryption.

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    Security testing on for

    BlackBerry solution
    BS REPORTER/AGENCIES
    New Delhi, 19 August

    ecurity agencies are test-

    S ing ways to access emails


    on BlackBerry devices
    through a solution provided by
    its makers, Research in Mo-
    tion (RIM).
    The company was given a
    deadline of August 31 for giv-
    ing an interception solution for
    its email and messenger serv-
    ices or face a ban.
    According to agencies, the
    government is now checking fering the Enterprise email serv- designed to secure those emails.
    whether they have the tech- ices on the BlackBerry plat- The company had earlier
    nology to monitor emails when form. said the emails could be in-
    they get briefly stored in an en- The government has ex- tercepted when it is temporarily
    terprise server. “There have pressed security concerns over stored in an Enterprise server
    been a number of suggestions the highly encrypted data that in a decrypted form while trav-
    offered and this is one of them. flows through BlackBerry. elling between two BlackBer-
    A technical team will check RIM is working in associa- ry devices and it does not have
    those suggestions over the next tion with the department of a master key. The officials of
    few days," said a senior gov- telecommunications and se- RIM, which has a subscriber
    ernment source, who did not curity agencies to resolve the base of nearly one million in
    want to be identified. issue. RIM uses powerful codes India, have informed the gov-
    Earlier, DoT in a letter to to encrypt email messages as ernment that they would be
    home ministry said if the so- they travel between a Black- coming again next week with
    lution is not acceptable to the Berry device and a computer a more precise solution which
    government, service providers known as a BlackBerry En- will help the Indian security
    would be instructed to stop of- terprise Server (BES) that is agencies monitor the services.

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