BlackBerry manufacturer Research In Motion (RIM) has said Tuesday that despite claims from some countries do not make a backdoor to their encrypted data for any government.
Already in 2007 India complained that BlackBerry encrypted emails, and thus could be used by individuals who could not be traced. Late July rattled India again with swords and threatened to completely stop RIM’s business in the country.
Recently criticized both Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates RIM for not giving them access to data from BlackBerry phones. The two countries have therefore planned blocks of several of BlackBerry’s functions, it is judged that they did not follow its laws.
One of the criticisms has been that data from the phones sent to RIM’s servers in Canada and the U.S., where the United Arab Emirates has no authority over them.
RIM’s response has been a message to its customers in which they list on the form explaining why they will not disclose encrypted data. Among other things they mention that data is encrypted so that not even RIM itself can read it, because only the client itself, which holds the key to decrypt the information.
RIM does not possess a ‘master key’, nor does any “back door” exist in the system that would allow RIM or any third party gain two Unauthorized access to the key or corporate data. Research In Motion
Ambassador in the U.S. for the United Arab Emirates, however, considers that the requirements are unreasonable. He mentions that they only require the same adjustments as RIM already successor in the U.S., and for the same reasons: to protect national interests.
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