U.A.E. Hates on the Blackberries

[Lunar]

A1 of NYT online atm

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/02/business/global/02berry.html?_r=1&hp

The United Arab Emirates, long regarded as one of the most business friendly economies in the Middle East, announced Sunday that starting in October it will prevent BlackBerry owners from sending and receiving e-mail and other messages and browsing the Internet because the security-minded government cannot adequately monitor those features on the popular electronic devices.

[Bo]

Not really news.

[The Mikado]

Not really news.

F**k off and stop threads**ting.

Anyway, good for Research in Motion.  They should use this as their new ad campaign.  "The UAE had to ban us because our security was too good."

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

Then I guess they would be banned from most dictatorships in the world as well, or I miss something.

[Kevin]

Then I guess they would be banned from most dictatorships in the world as well, or I miss something.

India also has voiced concerns about the Blackberry.

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

Then I guess they would be banned from most dictatorships in the world as well, or I miss something.

India also has voiced concerns about the Blackberry.

And I just heard on France24 that KSA planned to do the same thing, after the 500,000 users of UAE, plus all people transiting by Dubai airport (1st airport in Mid-East) deprived of it, it will be the 700,000 users in KSA as well. And if UAE has just raised a suspicion that didn't exist before, then if a state like China takes similar measures, unless Blackberry accepts to screw itself, maybe all of this can be pretty bad for its business, and bad for free speech and communication as well.

[cannonia]

There's a very frightening trend against freedom in the world.  Hopefully there will not be any new campaign against cryptography here.

[Kevin]

Then I guess they would be banned from most dictatorships in the world as well, or I miss something.

India also has voiced concerns about the Blackberry.

And I just heard on France24 that KSA planned to do the same thing, after the 500,000 users of UAE, plus all people transiting by Dubai airport (1st airport in Mid-East) deprived of it, it will be the 700,000 users in KSA as well. And if UAE has just raised a suspicion that didn't exist before, then if a state like China takes similar measures, unless Blackberry accepts to screw itself, maybe all of this can be pretty bad for its business, and bad for free speech and communication as well.

I wouldn't be surprised if China or for that matter Russia decides to follow suit as well.

[Lunar]

Not really news.

F**k off and stop threads**ting.

It should be said, that anything that goes out on the NYT print edition A1, as this story did, becomes news.  

I think it's unquestionably arguable, if not fairly persuasive, that the guy that makes these types of decisions for the Grey Lady [too lazy to research, is it Bill Keller?] is one of the most influential people, with a small plurality, in shaping the media narrative in the world, if not the #1 person with an outright plurality under some sort of attempted objective measure.

So if a story which is not news goes out on the NYT A1 is not news, that itself is news, yaddamean?  If the NYT ran a story entitled "Random darker speckle of sand appears within a one foot square radius location in the desert, 80 miles away from Muscat, Oman" -- even though it was useless, it'd be worthy of a discussion as to why such a useless event was featured by the Grey Lady

So, the "not news" comment was backwards.  You, as a poster, don't get to determine what is news and what is not.  If Paris Hilton has a new socialite boyfriend, every single news station in the country will carry the story, I promise you, but that doesn't make it "news" in any of my own definitions.  

If anyone wants to say that this is not news, they should say why.

[Beet]

Research In Motion has a good chance of becoming the next Palm anyway.

[Earth]

One day, the UAE will develop their own Echelon program, so banning certain devices won't be necessary.

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

One day, the UAE will develop their own Echelon program, so banning certain devices won't be necessary.

I heard there would already be talks between Blackberry and UAE to eventually open their servers based in USA and UK to UAE eyes.

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

'lol', goes fast.

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http://www.france24.com/en/20100807-blackberry-services-remain-functional-ban-saudi-arabia-privacy-canada



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[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

An other measure from an other country now, something different though:

http://www.france24.com/en/20100809-germany-senior-officials-blackberries-iphones-government-cyber-attacks-security

But that bit is interesting:

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[cannonia]

An other measure from an other country now, something different though:

http://www.france24.com/en/20100809-germany-senior-officials-blackberries-iphones-government-cyber-attacks-security

But that bit is interesting:

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The sharks smell blood in the water!

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

Maybe.

Anyhow, in case other people hadn't noticed, India tries also to concretely negotiate something with RIM.

Surprised nothing came from China so far.