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Blackberry Email Too Secure for Governments
The governments of India and several other countries are demanding that Telecommunications Company and maker of the Blackberry mobile, Research In Motion, address security concerns. “If they don’t follow our guidelines, we will have no option but to ask them to stop their operations in India,” the Press Trust of India (PTI) quoted an unidentified government official as saying.
The Blackberry smartphone uses high encryption technology that Indian security forces are unable to intercept and decipher. Other governments that have recently expressed security concerns are Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Indonesia, Lebanon, Algeria and Germany. Saudi Arabia has ordered its phone operators to halt Blackberry services while the UAE plan to ban the services starting from October. France cautioned officials against using the service back in 2007.
Bans in both Saudi Arabia and the UAE means that domestic and International roaming travellers will not have access to Blackberry services.
The Canadian company has more than 41 million users world-wide, the percentage of those in the primary middle-eastern countries threatening to ban the use of Blackberry technology is less than 3 percent. There are around 700,000 Blackberry users in Saudi Arabia and some 500,000 in the UAE.
Government Compliance Vs Customer Privacy
RIM finds itself in a difficult situation: in order to do business in these countries who demand access to customer data, RIM will have to make a compromise with them or even cave completely to their demands. By capitulating to these governments however, RIM risks alienating its customers who value their privacy, especially its enterprise customers who fear having their confidential business transmissions read by governments.
While India is the latest country to express concerns that the encrypted Blackberry services will help facilitate terrorism, the battle between governments and communications companies over access to data has occurred over decades. In the 1980s, the US government unsuccessfully pushed for backdoor encryption keys and access to computer data. In 1994, the US passed CALEA (Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act) that allowed phone and electronic communications monitoring under certain circumstances, particularly in cases where national security is threatened. This was extended in 2005 to include Internet and VoIP phone systems.
Australia Settled This 20 years Ago, Until the War On Terror
Australia had a similar debate during the 1990s about the potential for encryption to thwart government from legitimately accessing communications and other data. The Australian government concluded at the time that they were powerless to intercept encrypted data. In 2004, The Australian Parliament approved the Surveillance Devices Bill (No. 2) 2004 and Telecommunications (Interception) Amendment (Stored Communications) Bill 2004, allowing easy access to emails, SMSs and voicemail by police. The spyware law authorises police to install spyware on user’s computers for offenses that carry penalties of 3 years, less than is required for a wiretap.
A Parliamentary Committee report cited a calculation that by comparison with the US for 2003-04, Australia issued 75% more warrants than the total number of US wiretap warrants, and that this represented 26 times the rate on a per capital basis.
Where There is a Will, There is a Way (to undermine surveillance)
Despite RIMs Blackberry service being the target of governments worried about terrorists being able to circumvent having their communications monitored, there is plenty of third party software available to encrypt data so that not even the government can intercept communications. A free app for Google’s mobile phone platform Andriod was recently released called RedPhone, a voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) program that encrypts phone calls, and TextSecure, an app for sending and receiving encrypted text messages and scrambling the messages stored in their inbox.
It would seem that despite any governments best efforts, those individuals who are knowledgeable of Internet security will get find a way around attempts to eavesdrop on their private conversations. The recent demand from these governments to be able to intercept and read Blackberry communications for the sake of national security sends the message that businesses cannot expect a right to privacy as communications providers are progressively forced into the unenviable position of choosing between customer privacy and legal compliance with regard to police and secret service surveillance.
Encryption is Legal Here and We Can Help
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Government’s Feminist Tyranny Exists Denying Men Their Constitutional Due Process
Tyrannies begin by promulgating policies of good intentions. Such intentions fool the public into allowing government to fund such programs. Feminism was accepted by most as simply fostering equal opportunity for women. So, government-funded programs began.
And so began the tyranny against fathers, family and freedom both here and throughout the western world. This article is a first of a series exposing the nature of this tyranny and how we must take back government’s tyrannical control of society to secure freedom for all.
…But the funding grew more programs which supported lobbying for more and for perverse changes in the laws – changes that denied men and fathers their fundamental rights. Feminist-instigated government policies and laws viewed their intentions as a ‘greater good’ than the rights that keep us all free – a view which is the hallmark of tyranny.
With ‘feminist jurisprudence’ established, especially within domestic-related jurisdictions, ‘greater good’ intentions like ‘best interest of the child’ or ‘safety of women’ are now used to deny the constitutional rights and protections of all – but most especially of men and fathers.
Based on both denials of rights and constitutional protections, fit fathers under divorce or paternity actions and men accused of specious domestic violence become the excuse and fodder for government control over their lives and their earnings. This tyranny has fostered the growth of a 0+ billion government-affiliated industry feeding off constitutionally deprived fit fathers and the public for its ever-increasing control and demands.
In a nutshell, this government’s feminist tyranny employs the noble-sounding greater good intentions as ‘best interest of the child’ and ‘safety of women’ for reason to justify denying men their rights and protections. The ‘best interest of the child’ principle is used in divorce and paternity actions to deny a fit father his parental rights to legal and physical custody of his child – at least equal to the mother’s.
This allows the court- and thereby the state- to virtually kidnap his child and, then demand extortion payments euphemistically called ‘child support’ for up to 20 years or more. The government-affiliated industry feeds off these payments, the continual litigation for more, and a host of other government-assisted programs to control and manipulate the father’s life, earnings, property and his pursuit of happiness for himself and his child.
If the father won’t – or most often can’t – comply with the extortion payments (perhaps 30% or more of his gross income), he’s jailed without constitutional due process under feminist-perverted contempt judgments. He can have his state license to practice his profession revoked, his driver’s license revoked by any administrator of his state’s revenue department and his passport taken to extort payments from him. If he leaves his country to secure freedom, he becomes a felon subject to 10 years in jail. The system reduces him to the status of a slave. And remember, he’s never done anything wrong – but he has been seriously ‘wronged’.
The ‘safety of women’ principle is used both in divorce and paternity suits and in any domestic circumstance to throw a man out of his house and restrict where he can go. It only takes an ‘accusation of abuse’ – no trial, i.e. no rules of evidence to punish him. By law, ‘abuse’ can be a subjective – and not even physical – state of the ‘woman’s (read victim’s) mind. He can be thrown in jail until a hearing – perhaps for 3 months; but if he admits he abused, he’ll be let out so he can keep his job. That’s a good way to get those phony ‘abuse numbers’ up to justify more abuse programs; extortion works wonders.
No constitutional due process to protect against false accusations means that innocent men are thrown out of their houses, lose their possessions, denied seeing their kids, and go to jail – all the time. And, of course, it means a malicious woman can count on the feminist’s government tyranny to help her steal a man’s rights, property, income and children.
Is what I’ve quickly summarized about the circumstance that men and fathers face true?
Yes. But why should you believe it to be true? You should because the constitutional protections – i.e. our fundamental rights and the high standard of due process protecting them is wholly ignored for men and fathers put into divorce, paternity actions and domestic violence actions.
The aptly named government-affiliated child support and domestic violence industry’s enormous funding allows it to propagandize the inherent ‘badness of men’. That fathers run away from marriage or don’t want to support their children. That they don’t have the best interest of their child at heart nor the safety of women.
That’s phony propaganda. But it’s important to vilify those who you’ll deny rights to. That’s the way tyrannies always work.
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