from the government to provide a mechanism for lawful interception of its messenger services and Nokia has been
asked to follow suit.
During a high-level meeting at the Union Home Ministry recently, officials of the security agencies were informed
that Canada-based Research in Motion has installed the servers in Mumbai.
The servers have been inspected by a team of officers and permission for direct linkage for lawful interception was
expected to be issued shortly, a presentation made at the meeting held in the office of the Home Secretary said.
About the Nokia Push Mail, the Department of Telecom also prescribed a similar policy as in the case adopted by the
BlackBerry, the presentation said.
The government and BlackBerry manufacturers were in a logjam over its services in India as security agencies had
raised a red flag over its operations citing non availability of method to intercept its messenger service and
enterprise mail.
However, there was a climbdown by the government on intercepting mail sent through BlackBerry Enterprise Services
(BES) which decrypts the messages and sends it to email server of the service provider where it remains stored in
decrypted form. Then the message is pushed to the BlackBerry device in encrypted form. (More) PTI SKL ZMN 02201643
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The DoT secretary informed that currently there are about 5000 Enterprise Servers for BES. Director Intelligence
Bureau Nehchal Sandhu noted that these are communications between the employees of the enterprise only and,
therefore, are not of "high concern" for security or Intelligence agencies.
"However, it was decided to obtain list and location of the servers from telecom service providers," the
presentation said.
RIM representatives had explained that BlackBerry mobile device sends the encrypted email which is sent to BES
located with the service provider
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