Pakistan Is Ordering Telecom Companies to Ban BlackBerry Encrypted Messaging:
The government of Pakistan is “requesting” that three telecom companies stop providing BlackBerry’s encrypted messaging services to customers, according to documents obtained by civil rights group Bytes for All Pakistan.
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“This demonstrates, at a policy level, that a very large government is willing to ban communications if they can’t gain access to it,“ said Chris Parsons, a post-doctoral fellow at digital rights group Citizen Lab.”Maybe it’s just Pakistan, and nobody else will do it, but it’s certainly a strong change to, ‘If we can’t backdoor it, then we will ban it,’” he added.
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