Leicester Mercury political correspondent
They’re addictive these smartphones. They call the Blackberry a ‘crackberry’ for a reason, and I break out into a cold sweat when I don’t have my iPhone by my side.
So which local councillor is having to do a little bit of cold-turkey after council chiefs confiscated his handheld companion?
Answers on a postcard…
jamil ahmad: hi
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Lily Canter: Looks like an overseas student to me, due to the broken English.
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about 1 year ago
I guess things aren’t going well for RIM, Google and Skype in India. Apparently the Department of Telecom (DoT) in India in going to ban BlackBerry, Gmail and Skype services unless they provide a readable format of data going through their networks to security agencies. In addition, they’re amending IT laws to force foreign companies without a local license to provide all data required by Indian law enforcement agencies.
My thing is, if a readable format becomes available from RIM, Google and Skype, doesn’t that make it more insecure in terms of access by a malicious user? If one person has access to a readable format of the data I’m sure it won’t be too hard for an ambitious black hat to find a hole in the system eventually, especially if that data is out in the open within Indian government agencies. What do you all think?