Comments: "BlackBerry war" meaning
Following the Google Street View car for illegal collection of home Wi-Fi network information in trouble after another well-known Canadian company RIM BlackBerry produced recently in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Germany, India and other countries have also encountered problems : These countries either ban or warning, partial or full ban on the use of certain features of the BlackBerry. Reason is "to protect national security."
more interesting is that starting from August 6, only news reports that RIM's home country the Government of Canada began with the UAE Minister of Foreign Trade in contact on this matter, but in Canada the United States could not stand a good neighbor U.S. Department of State to speak out to come out of the UAE announced that the ban expressed regret, the U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also involved in the relevant negotiations.
U.S. intervention, just to some extent reflects the key concerns of these countries - the problem is not the BlackBerry itself, but rather the challenge of blackberries on the state power, more specifically, the national control information, capacity challenges.
back to the basic technical level, the trouble is precisely the BlackBerry the most important feature: When the BlackBerry 1998, RIM, get out, they do not a cell phone, and is a "mobile e-mail system terminal." The target group locked in with the customers on enterprise applications to push-based email (that is often said that the Push Mail) as the main selling point, to ensure that wherever customers can be "safe" to access their corporate internal e-mail server. Correspondingly, the BlackBerry system uses a powerful encryption system to ensure the safety of commercial confidentiality enterprise customers. In layman's terms, when any one person, group of people use BlackBerry to communicate with each other, even if someone intercepted the network from the public they Chuandi of Xin Xi, the information still is in encrypted state, the content will be very difficult to be cracked in Huozhewufa . Of course, large companies like it, because Business is war, which prevent competitors spying, but also the need for secret contact with terrorists, human rights groups and other such organizations to increase Blackberry Green eyes, because it also means that you can conduct secret secure communication, without being monitored, the government apparently had relatively large heads.
for now, There are basically two kinds of solutions: the first one kind of typical representative of the United States, publicly authorized the Government to monitor the network Tongxin curricula, network service providers and government cooperation, to allow for Xiang Guan Guo Jia Anquanjigou information.
"9.11" incident, the U.S. government passed the "Patriot Act", "Homeland Security Act", amended in 1978, "Foreign Intelligence Act," 1934 "Communications Act" to empower the relevant authorities to monitor, provides service to government departments, including access to the server hard disk data in various ways, including collaboration with the Government. Based on these laws, by virtue of its natural area of information technology's monopoly advantage (the large number of critical infrastructure networks in the Shou United States law of the territory), the U.S. government to ensure the 挑战 its Yingdui IT capacity, including Yunxuzhengfu departments necessary, ordered the closure of some servers, and even cut off a certain type of domain name parsing to disappear from the network.
second Zeyi involved in this incident represented by the UAE government. July 22, 2009, the UAE telecom operator Etisalat main unveiled by the United States, California, developed BlackBerry SS8 "upgrade" the software to require users to upgrade, the software is actually a spy monitoring software, upgrades will be in the phone to open a "back door" allowing the government to monitor. This is a typical temporary alternative means to seek technical manner outside of the server can not monitor the conditions, make up for inadequate monitoring capacity.
from the effect, alternative technical solutions are not ideal, the upgrading of a large number of users complain about the battery consumption of mobile phones increased, performance declined dramatically. In the end, the United Arab Emirates, India and other countries back to the U.S. model to law enforcement Yaoqiu BlackBerry selection: either in its encryption system for the government to retain control of the government a backdoor program, and set up the server in the corresponding national Guo Nei, supervision; or on complete ban on encrypted messages and instant messaging.
United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and even India, Germany BlackBerry concern from many of its domestic groups (including human rights activists, terrorists) move the encrypted communications system with organizing and planning, and implementation challenges to government power and even threats national security act. From this point of view, the occurrence of such disputes in 2010, Google plans to leave the mainland market turmoil is a side of the coin: one side is the continued growth of information technology to give non-state actors challenging the state power of the new capabilities, and with specific joint implementation of national challenge; the other side is the feeling of being a "threat to the survival of" the countries within its capacity to meet this challenge.
consequences are obvious: If you continue to laissez-faire the spread of technology development and capability, the end result will be a force in all countries in the world of information and build and strengthen the various types of borders, weaken and eventually cut off the free cross-border information flows, and block the free flow of information may bring benefits and drawbacks.
from the government point of view, countries in their own way to deal with information technology development, information technology has been unable to keep up with the global epidemic. Including encryption devices, including mobile Internet access all the latest achievement in information technology development, the growing demands of the international community as a whole to establish a common set of information management and control standards, to respond to the challenge accordingly. Take advantage of the country first and worry about how security and control capabilities to reach a compromise, establish and improve management of global information space of common standards or international standards, will increasingly become important topic worthy of all parties concerned, blackberry storm meaning, lies.
