Comments on: RIM May Hand Crypto Keys To Indian Government http://www.planetsean.com/rim-may-hand-crypto-keys-to-indian-government/ "Life goes by pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." Mon, 26 Jan 2009 04:23:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Lucas http://www.planetsean.com/rim-may-hand-crypto-keys-to-indian-government/comment-page-1/#comment-48 Lucas Thu, 22 May 2008 00:41:57 +0000 http://www.planetsean.com/rim-may-hand-crypto-keys-to-indian-government/#comment-48 Yeah, my first thought on reading this was that RIM is taking a bigger risk by releasing its cryptography keys and hanging its customers out to dry (and not just non-corporate Indian customers - once RIM betrays one segment of customers, they'll lose their reputation with many other, supposedly unaffected customers). If it weren't for India being a such a high growth sector these days, I'd say RIM should hold their ground, give up that market segment, and let the Indian government play the bad guys in this little melodrama. Or the Indian government could just hire some better hackers... Yeah, my first thought on reading this was that RIM is taking a bigger risk by releasing its cryptography keys and hanging its customers out to dry (and not just non-corporate Indian customers – once RIM betrays one segment of customers, they’ll lose their reputation with many other, supposedly unaffected customers). If it weren’t for India being a such a high growth sector these days, I’d say RIM should hold their ground, give up that market segment, and let the Indian government play the bad guys in this little melodrama.

Or the Indian government could just hire some better hackers…

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