BlackBerry safe in India

In a windfall for BlackBerry holding company Research in Motion (RIM), the Indian government has put off its decision to ban BlackBerry Messenger and email services on the platform in September.

Several weeks ago a number of countries including the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and India came forward to voice concerns over the methods Research in Motion use to encrypt data transferred over the international BlackBerry network.

At present all BlackBerry data traffic internationally is rerouted to RIM server farms in other countries such as Canada, the US and the UK. Complainant countries have voiced concerns that the movement of this data to other territories without sufficient monitoring may pose a domestic security risk.

RIM has however agreed to allow Indian officials access to secure BlackBerry data from the 1st of September. In doing so it has rescued some one million Indian BlackBerry users from having selected services suspended tomorrow.

Although RIM still has to answer to Saudi Arabian officials in October this signals that the company is well on its way to working with complainant territories to resolve possible security risks behind its network structure.

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