Sunday, August 8, 2010

Saudi Arabia bans BlackBerry messaging services

Things are not good for the border this week.  First place its latest flagship phone, the flame of BlackBerry, warm comments received (our assessment is in the next few days).  Friday, Saudi Arabia has made good on a threat to some of the most important functions.

Only the largest Arab country in the Middle East has been made by the ban has been pasting a wireless provider that does not conform with a hefty 1.3 dollars.Trois million other countries (UAE, India and Indonesia) have their difficulties with BlackBerry, messaging service that could ultimately similar actions follow.e-mail and instant messaging devices in Saudi Arabia, the following security concerns on the procedure of RIM, allowing airlines to check messages from the user is disabled. 

Unlike other smartphones follow BlackBerry e-mail and instant messages are not habituelle.Au rather than sending it via Internet routing path information, they are first encrypted and sent to the RIM BlackBerry, secured servers has not even access to. of course, this is one of the most important point of sale equipment, your data is safe.However, these same infallible measure has earned the ire of Governments want to keep a tab on their citizens messaging habits.

In the middle of the pressure of mounting, but Accome RIM.Dans a statement released on Wednesday of last week, said the Canadian manufacturer of telephone, 'the BlackBerry solution for enterprises was designed border, or a third party who, read encrypted information under any circumstances, since the border will not be able to save or to access the encrypted data.They added, "requests which offer us, or have something unique to the Government of a country that we do not have offered to Governments of all countries are unfounded.".

Of course, this is far solved.RIM stock has already move forward with a k in the week, so it will be interesting to see how all this plays.

[via Engadget]

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