What exactly is RIM Blackberry?

What is happening to RIM (makers of blackberry) in India?

• Answer:

  Research in Motion (RIM), the maker of BlackBerry family of smartphone devices, has appeared to have resolved issues with the Indian government over monitoring its data services in the country after Security agencies raised concern over BlackBerry messenger services. The agreement was achieved soon after the Authorities announced an August 31 deadline for the company and telecom service providers to offer a solution to the address security concerns raised by home ministry and security officials. The home ministry was concerned about monitoring data services on these handsets and had raised the issue with the company. The ministry has asked the telecom authorities to give RIM a period of 15 days to align its email and other data services with the Formats that can be read by the security and intelligence agencies. Security officials have said that continuation of BlackBerry services in the present format is dangerous for the security of the country. They indicated that the security personnel are unable to or find it very difficult to intercept or decipher messages that rely on codes with high encryption and are sent from these phones. The mechanism scrambles the emails when sent and then unscrambles them when it reaches its destinations. The security agencies were concerned over the BlackBerry’s Enterprise and Messenger services which can be used by potentials threats to the country. To reach an agreement RIM has given security agencies an existing tool that’s allows them to monitor text on encrypted BlackBerry messenger and the company is developing a tool to give to security agencies around the world. RIM Vice President Robert E Crow met Home Minister P Chidambaram to discuss the issues over BlackBerry. India is concerned that these services can be used unlawful activities. Similar security issues are also being raised by authorities in some other countries around the world.