Looks like we have another naïve official in office. The director of telecommunications has dubbed the requests made by India to view encrypted data sent and received on mobile devices as a “genuine request”.
I could rant for hours on this and other Government Idiotics, but I’ll leave that to our readers’ opinions.

According to the AP, Hamadoun Toure, secretary-general of the International Telecommunications Union, said that RIM should give law enforcement agencies around the world access to its customers data. According to him these lawful agencies need to access this data to fight terrorism. He told the AP:

“Those are genuine requests. There is a need for cooperation between governments and the private sector on security issues.” 

Ronen Halevy from Berry Review has a great thought: “I wonder how the UN would feel if they suddenly made all UN and NATO communication like email have an encryption backdoor? Then they could offer the solution to Iran because they have a “genuine interest” in knowing what sanctions will be placed on them next.”

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Source: BerryReview

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