India eyes Google, Skype
p2pnet view Politics | Mobiles:- With Canada’s Blackberry smartphones under the gun, Google and Skype maybe next in line as India escalates its demands for access to encrypted data.
“The development comes at a time when the government has given Research In Motion, the makers of BlackBerry, time until August 31 to resolve the issue and allow interception of all types communications on the device and has said it would ban the services if the Canadian company failed to meet the deadline”, says the Economic Times.
Google and Skype “have considerable presence in the country”, it says, stating:
“According to sources, DoT may now ask Google and Skype to give access to their networks as the data travelling through them is not accessible by the security agencies in the country.”
… and identi.ca
under the gun – India, RIM, talks ‘inconclusive’, August 12, 2010
Economic Times – Govt may ask Google, Skype to provide security access, August 16, 2010
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August 16th, 2010 at 11:45 am
Making this demand public has the efect of nullifying its potential usefulness, I,m sure google and skype are aware of this and potentially the original source for this story.
Doe anyone really believe the major powers dont have enough technology on hand to crack these encryptions using the tried and trusted brute force engines, thats even going along with the pretence that they havent already obtained data or information that allows them to take many shortcuts to arrive at a solution in real time, lets be honest here, if your up to no good and you know the government is using electronic data gathering techniques to catch you out your hardly likely to help them track your movements and aid them further out by utilising methods of communication that require you to have little or no security over the traffic.
All real bad folks dont even use a cellphone let alone a fruit named keyboard weilding mini-computer version.