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Originally Posted by devilsadvocate
Not necessarily a lawsuit; RIM's strong suit has always been security with its email and messaging, and UAE & Saudi Arabia want a backdoor for "judicial, social and national security concerns".
Seeing how those countries have such respect for their women and religious tolerance, I'm sure they have only altrusitic motives.  |
In fairness,
every government wants a back door like that. Some are simply a bit more blatant than others.
Mind you, if I were a bad guy engaged in things I didn't want a government to know about, I'd think twice about using Blackberries or any similar device to coordinate with my associates, unless I could be sure that all such communications used innocuous phrases that were meaningful to the associates but not to government snoopers reading my electronic mail.
And what passes for moderate Islamic states (which the Saudis and the UAE are) may be even more paranoid about people like Al Queda and the Taliban than we are. The Saudi regime, for example, came to power by overthrowing a previous government perceived as having drifted too far away from Islamic principles. The Wahabi strain of Islam practiced by the Saudis is fairly fundamentalist, and while the Saudi royalty are cosmopolitan, they remember just how they became rulers, and don't want the same thing happen to them. I suspect similar motivations in the UAE.
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By far not the only reason, just the one that sealed the deal; I was already leaning toward something running Android.
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Android has neat stuff, but from what I've seen, getting root is a non-trivial undertaking. A friend bought his wife and daughter Droid phones, but got a Nokai 900 for himself because he
could get root on it.
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Dennis