As a deadline looms to decide the fate of the BlackBerry Messenger service in Saudi Arabia, Research In Motion is reportedly testing a series of in-country servers that would enable government monitoring of communications over the BlackBerry network. RIM is reportedly working with the kingdom’s three mobile-phone operators to test the servers, which would support the government’s stated desire to monitor user communication on BlackBerry devices so as to prevent terrorism and illegal activities.
countries have always had some form of surveillance ability, so all that's happening here is BBM conforming to the norms of other media. how is this even worth writing about? isn't the real question "why did anyone think BBM was un-surveillable"? if you're serious about secure communication, you use your own auditable app...
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RIM's Capitulation to Saudis Could Set Off Domino Effect
Posted by: Katherine Noyes August 9, 2010 11:34 AMAs a deadline looms to decide the fate of the BlackBerry Messenger service in Saudi Arabia, Research In Motion is reportedly testing a series of in-country servers that would enable government monitoring of communications over the BlackBerry network. RIM is reportedly working with the kingdom’s three mobile-phone operators to test the servers, which would support the government’s stated desire to monitor user communication on BlackBerry devices so as to prevent terrorism and illegal activities.