The central government seems to put serious efforts into needless things like trying to impose controls on BlackBerry messaging service. Government is claiming terrorists are using the BlackBerry services.So they demand that BlackBerry provide a back door for the government to snoop on its own citizens.This is outrageous and draconian.This is like being in a police state.In a free democratic country like India, it is unacceptable that the government reserves right to read the private communications of the citizens.
Incompetent zealots like Home Secretary G.K Pillai are willfully calling for the rights of our citizens for secure communications to be violated.What makes me wonder most is how the Indian media approached the episode.They were merely toeing the official line, and their reports were reading like press releases from the Home Ministry.The response of the Indian business world was appalling too: One business leader supposedly stated that BlackBerry needs to understand that business is done "differently" in India and needs to back down.
I would say it is unethical for the government to ask BlackBerry or any other service provider to provide a back door or escrow mechanism for monitoring of communications.
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