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Old 2nd Aug 2010, 04:40
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Originally Posted by nolimitholdem
The Canadians would help track down a credible terrorist threat, but they're not so much interested in helping the local yokels track down who's sending naughty sex-texts to whom.
Well RIM have refused to co-operate with requests twice now - so you can understand why the government is getting peeved with them.

If the Government in the US can access Blackberry messages when it wants I dont think that telling other governments around the globe that they cant is really sustainable in the long term.

Given the alternatives for secure communications that governments cannot readily access I really cannot see why RIM are so adamant about not allowing the same sort of access to their system as every other manufacturer.
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