{"id":2457,"date":"2008-03-25T12:17:56","date_gmt":"2008-03-25T17:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/?p=2457"},"modified":"2008-03-25T12:17:57","modified_gmt":"2008-03-25T17:17:57","slug":"indian-blackberry-network-given-15-days-to-allow-government-snooping-or-shut-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2008\/03\/indian-blackberry-network-given-15-days-to-allow-government-snooping-or-shut-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Blackberry network given 15 days to allow government snooping or shut down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2008\/03\/25\/indian-blackberry-network-given-15-days-to-allow-government-snoo\/#comments\" >Indian Blackberry network given 15 days to allow government snooping or shut down<\/a>: &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/category\/cellphones\/\"  rel=\"tag\">Cellphones<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/common\/storypage_c_online.php?bKeyFlag=IN&#038;autono=34871\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogsmithmedia.com\/www.engadget.com\/media\/2008\/03\/3-25-08-india-blackberry.jpg\"  alt=\"\" \/><\/a>The last we&#8217;d heard, the Indian government had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2008\/03\/14\/indias-blackberry-network-lives-to-fight-another-day\/\" >ruled out the threat<\/a> of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2008\/03\/12\/indian-blackberry-network-to-be-shut-down-unless-rim-allows-gove\/\" >Blackberry ban<\/a> if RIM didn&#8217;t allow it to snoop on messages, but it looks like some overzealous bureaucrat is getting his way after all: the Department of Telecom has issued a 15-day deadline for RIM to either open up for the G-men or get shut down. RIM says it won&#8217;t comment on regulatory issues as a matter of policy, but it looks like the Indian government is playing hardball, with Telecom Minister A Raja saying that national security will not be sacrificed at any cost. Hmm, hear that? That&#8217;s the sound of over 400,000 Indian Blackberry users desperately grabbing at their devices to get another quick fix &#8212; something tells us this isn&#8217;t going to end well.<\/p>\n<p>[Via <aeds.engadget.com\/~r\/weblogsinc\/engadget\/~4\/257748701\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\" >Engadget<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Blackberry network given 15 days to allow government snooping or shut down: &#8220; Filed under: Cellphones The last we&#8217;d heard, the Indian government had ruled out the threat of a Blackberry ban if RIM didn&#8217;t allow it to snoop on messages, but it looks like some overzealous bureaucrat is getting his way after all: &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2008\/03\/indian-blackberry-network-given-15-days-to-allow-government-snooping-or-shut-down\/\"  class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Indian Blackberry network given 15 days to allow government snooping or shut down<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-DD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}