[LINK] Have RIM, Nokia & Apple provided Indian Military backdoors to eavesdrop on US Govt.

[Tom Worthington]

On 09/01/12 20:49, Kim Holburn wrote:
> Government enforced "lawful intercept" backdoors come back to bite said government.
> http://www.zdnet.com/blog/india/have-rim-nokia-apple-provided-indian-military-with-backdoor-access-to-cellular-comm/838

Australian law requires telecommunications companies to cooperate with 
monitoring of phone calls and data communications. It is not surprising 
if India does the same: http://www.acma.gov.au/WEB/STANDARD/pc=PC_581

But it is not credible, as the article seems to suggest, that RIM, Nokia 
and Apple would provide India with the capability to intercept the 
communications of US government officials in the USA. These companies 
would derive far more revenue from the USA than from India. Being shut 
out of the US market would be a high price to pay, even assuming the 
executives of the companies managed to avoid the death penalty for 
espionage: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_United_States#Crimes_subject_to_capital_punishment

Of course one part of the US government might sanction India spying on 
another part of the US government. ;-)


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