Can RIM Win the Final Showdown With India?
Research In Motion is entering last-ditch meetings with Indian security officials in an effort to meet demands of government access to encrypted communications, says Reuters. This is a considerable problem for RIM, because business customers create their own security codes, and RIM doesn’t have access to those codes. Indeed, RIM’s very strength of allowing enterprises to control security of internal communications appears to be the sticking point of the current showdown, which has a deadline of Aug. 31. In prior meetings with Indian officials, RIM has said it will provided a manual solutions to monitor instant messages, which it will follow up with an automated means by November. But without a “master-key” or back-door method to access enterprise communications, RIM appears to have little chance of meeting India’s demand, which is largely based on national security measures. The closest RIM has come so far towards keeping Indian security officials happy is a proposal to share the IP ad
