Dion Bisara & Bloomberg | August 04, 2010
The new BlackBerry Torch is displayed during a product introduction, on Tuesday in New York. Around the world governments are increasingly questioning the threat BlackBerry The new BlackBerry Torch is displayed during a product introduction, on Tuesday in New York. Around the world governments are increasingly questioning the threat BlackBerry's messaging and email services have on national security. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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ChrisH
11:11pm Aug 6, 2010
Agreed with ronyboy. I get so tired of the people reading n sending sms's during morning meetings. I want it to stop, I have asked for it, but it does not stop.
People here are so proud of their phones, and they all act like they have this big social life at 7 in the morning. The more functional it gets, the more it becomes a nuisance in daily meetings.
ronyboy
7:44am Aug 6, 2010
yes lets ban the blackeberries..i find them most annoying, especially during meetings...indonesians like this sense of self-importance and maybe we need this kind of wake-up call...have respect and pay attention to the matter at hand...emails can wait at the office...we have text messages for crying out loud...
Gurkha
1:40pm Aug 5, 2010
More cultural imports from feudal ARAB countries!
Roland
10:47am Aug 5, 2010
Slowly, but VERY SURELY, Indonesia seems to slide into a condition, in which every step is being observed, the government decides what can be seen and heard...
If I would be interested in conspiracies I would believe that certain stories (eg the Ariel video) are purposefully leaked and the issue artificially exaggerated to give the government 'valid' reasons to implement restriction to their citizen.
Next steps: No one is allowed to criticize the police, army, or the government...
Dangdut is porn...
Music is bad and needs to be banned...
TV is bad and needs to be banned...
School for females is bad and needs to be banned...
What else?
mauriceg
10:21am Aug 5, 2010
Perhaps in the future, we will have an additional definition of Third World or backward countries, namely: those that have banned the use of certain Blackberry services.
jacobian64
8:10am Aug 5, 2010
I am so in love with blackberry.
KokadoodleDoo
4:50am Aug 5, 2010
In terms of the redeaign, I like the floating bubbles when you mouseover headines that give us the main information. Very useful. Thanks JG.
mns_ent
3:18am Aug 5, 2010
This was definitely the joke of my day!!! :-)
OzAbroad
1:23am Aug 5, 2010
How stupid are the Indonesian authorities? Just because the Saudis want to monitor all the messaging why does Indonesia want to do this? Jeez the police can't even find their own wiretaps anyway. Maybe the MUI will declare Blackberries haram.
Jakarta. Indonesians could soon be without Internet and e-mail services on their beloved BlackBerries if authorities follow the lead of the United Arab Emirates and restrict the popular devices due to security concerns.
An official from the Indonesian Telecommunications Regulatory Body (BRTI) said on Wednesday that a ban was being considered for services such as BlackBerry Messenger, e-mail and Internet access after India and Saudi Arabia announced they might also take similar steps.
“We share the same concerns as those countries,” Heru Sutadi, a member of the BRTI, told the Jakarta Globe. “This is about our national security.”
Security is one of the main features BlackBerry maker Research in Motion has touted over its competitors, with e-mails sent from the devices being encrypted and sent through the company’s own servers and network operation centers, much of which is located in Canada.
That coveted secrecy has made BlackBerries popular with companies and government officials, including Barack Obama, who held onto his BlackBerry even after he became US president.
However, the system also makes it harder for governments to monitor communications sent via BlackBerries compared to other smartphones, which typically send data through open networks.
This has become an issue for countries worried about mobile e-mail or messaging being used by terrorist or antigovernment groups.
“All of the traffic currently goes trough their server in Canada,” Heru said. “This could be dangerous because we cannot monitor it.”
He said the regulatory body had been asking RIM for more than a year to open a representative office in Indonesia and also to set up a mirroring server here.
“Operators are even backing us to put pressure on RIM to open a mirroring server here because it could lower bandwidth cost and increase speed,” he said.
Heru said the regulator had so far been very patient over this issue, but “if it stays like this, we may [ban the service].” A possible ban will be discussed by BRTI officials next week, he added.
According to a news report from Bloomberg, RIM said it respected the regulatory requirements of governments but also the security and privacy needs of its customers.
“RIM does not disclose confidential regulatory discussions that take place with any government,” the company said in a statement.
In a separate statement to reassure its corporate customers, RIM said each company’s e-mails were encrypted with a unique key and even RIM could not decode such messages.
Based in Waterloo, Ontario, RIM has been focusing on new markets such as India, Indonesia, Brazil and the UAE as a decade of North American expansion slows.
Revenue from outside of North America rose to 37 percent of RIM’s $15 billion in total revenue in the last fiscal year, up from about 23 percent in 2005.
According to the Indonesian Cellular Phone Association (ATSI), there are as many as 1.2 million BlackBerry users across the country.
The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, meanwhile, is working on a plan to monitor the Internet for objectionable material.
http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/home/concern-spreads-over-blackberry-security/389552
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