Yesterday was the day a meet was organized in India for the security and telecom agencies of the country and the Research in Motion (RIM) officials to talk about the solutions for the security risks that the encrypted data transaction that BlackBerry phones use. The meeting was to decide whether BlackBerry can give a solution to monitor the encrypted data that was going out of the country from the BlackBerry phones used in the country, to a server that the Canadian company maintains in Canada.
Its been two months since the country's officials first asked Research in Motion for the access to these encrypted data. RIM had stated that the matter is out of its hand and it can not help in anyway. As a result of this, the Indian government gave it time till today to finalize its decision and if RIM gave a NO again, all its services would be banned from tomorrow.
As a result of this, RIM has to obviously find a way to avoid the ban. Now, the company has agreed to give the access to encrypted data and this is to maintained in a local server inside India. So RIM is to now set up a server at India so that the security agencies could easily monitor the traffic.
Nearly 1.1 million people in the country can be relaxed and dont have to change their phones now. This monitoring will be done for two months and will be examined later to see if the monitoring is proper and enough. If not, future steps will be taken accordinly.




