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Citizen Lab's new project aims to track BlackBerry traffic
By siliconindia
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Friday, 22 October 2010, 19:09 IST |
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Bangalore: Canadian computer scientists have launched a project to track BlackBerry traffic exiting Rim's encrypted network, with a focus on countries that have sought greater access. The project, called RIM Check, is being conducted by the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab and Ottawa-based think tank SevDev Group. "It is inspired by a broad need to monitor the activities of private sector actors that own and operate cyberspace. Particularly as they come under increasing pressure to co-operate with governments on national surveillance and censorship laws, policies, and requests," Citizen Lab said on its website.
RIM has granted Indian authorities access to Messenger but remains locked in negotiations over access to encrypted data sent via the Waterloo, Ontario-based company's enterprise servers. Whereas The United Arab Emirates said this month that it had resolved a dispute with RIM, and sources says that RIM has settled the matter by providing the code to the authorities. Even though RIM typically declines comment on deals with specific countries, but says it cannot access enterprise data and will not alter the security architecture of its corporate offering.
