RIM Refuses to Give Codes as BlackBerry Faces Bans
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Research In Motion Ltd., whose BlackBerry smartphone faces bans in Saudi Arabia and Indonesia, risks losing out on expansion in emerging markets after saying it won’t reveal codes for reading some users’ communications.
RIM can’t meet requests for corporate customers’ encryption keys since it doesn’t have the codes, the company said in an e-mailed statement. The BlackBerry corporate service was designed to prevent RIM, or anyone else, from reading encrypted information and any claims that RIM provided “something unique to the government of one country” are unfounded, it said.