BUSINESS COMMUNICATION

The Blackberry
Case
(INDIA)
THE PRESENTERS
ASHISH CHAWLA RAHUL SHARMA
AKANSHA JAIN SAGAR RAHEJA
MEHUL KARIA VAIBHAV NARKAR
 The key issues addressed…
• Who’s involved?
• How is communication through the
Blackberry smart phone different from
normal SMS /chat clients?
• Why is the government interfering in the
Blackberry smart phone?
• What does the government want exactly?
• What are the problems /issues faced by
the involved parties?
• What are The solutions?
• What is The impact?
•
 WHO ’ S INVOLVED?
•RESEARCH IN • GOVT OF INDIA
MOTION(RIM)
 ABOUT RIM…
• LAST 5 YEARS

• Founded in 1984.
• Led by Co-CEO
JIM BALSILLIE and
President and Co-
CEO MIKE
LAZARIDIS.
• Headquarters in
Waterloo, Canada.
• Launched the
BlackBerry *indicates Q2Results
 ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE
TABLE…
• The Ministry of Home Affairs
• Department of Telecom (DoT)
• Indian Security Agencies

OTHER PARTIES
•Te le c o m Se rvic e Pro vid e rs i.e
Vo d a fo n e , Airt e l
CONNECTED 
WHAT DOES THE GOVT WANT FROM RIM?

BlackBerry
Enterprise
Server
 WHY ?
o NATIONAL SECURITY :
The government is worried that
militants could use BlackBerry's heavily
encrypted services to plan attacks.
o
o Supervision:
To ensure that they can monitor
electronic messages at all times for
security reasons.
 WHAT THE GOVT IS
SAYING…
"We are very clear that any BlackBerry service that
cannot be fully intercepted by our agencies must be
discontinued. Offering access to data is part of the
telecom licensing guidelines and has to be adhered
to.”

“The government
imposed a deadline of August 31 asking
RIM to either provide a solution for
monitoring encrypted data or shut shop” .
 What RIM is saying…
•
•

 `Encryption' is a  It is impossible for it

fundamental or any other third
technology party to read
required in any encrypted data
country that wants sent via
to attract and BlackBerrys and
maintain that it could not
international share its
business. customers’
encryption keys.
 We have no "master
key" to unlock •

encryption codes
of clients which
 THE GOVT’S
DEMANDS
• Indian government rejected all these
proposals and asked RIM to install a SERVER
in India for real time information rather than
a deferred one in the interest of national
SECURITY
•
• “The Ministry has made it clear that any
communication through the telecom
networks should be accessible to the law
enforcement agencies and all telecom
service providers including third-parties
have to comply with this.
•
 RIM’S Solution
 ‘Metadata’
• is a summary of data attributes,
 it shows how long a text document is, who the author is,
and when the document was written. It also shows
picture size, color, depth, and when the image was
made.
 It would provide information on the phones’
identification and the Blackberry server’s Internet
address.
 RIM provided solutions for local security agencies to
monitor the company's BlackBerry corporate email
service. RIM had already provided access to other
services such as messenger and chat.
 RIM has prosed that an industry forum be established to
help governments manage lawful intercept, in the hope
of forestalling India's threatened ban.
TH A N K
YO U ! !