Report: RIM Allows Saudi Arabia to Monitor Users

[irh_1974]

[citation][nom]TommySch[/nom]Thats why SA should be an oil producing colony and nothing more.[/citation]
Not sure how you're gonna do that, that would involve not paying them for it somehow, I'm not sure they would give it up without a fight.

But hey, seems to be a cakewalk over in Iraq, so why the hell not!

 

[ss78]

Yup then cry and moan over US troop casualties when you do it. How about you guys stop your hateful statements and say something constructive. The ones making the most money are the foreign oil companies who sell the oil to you at some ridiculously inflated price to buy bugattis. Oil producers make only a fraction of what oil companies make off us.

 

[jgiron]

then what's the point of encryption in SA?

 

[gm0n3y]

Reuters cites a source that says RIM will share the unique pin number and code for each BlackBerry registered in Saudi Arabia

So if Saudis buy their phones outside of Saudi Arabia and then use them there, then their government wouldn't have access? Unless to sign up for a cell plan in Saudi you have to register you phone there. Either way, if you have money and/or are really paranoid, then you can just use a phone registered somewhere else and pay roaming charges.

 

[Guest]

what a bunch of crap....
at least Google stood up to the Chinese, blackberries are fading anyways so I hope this sign from the company seals their own demise....
the rich, ruling class in both Saudi and China need us far more than we need them.. just a matter of the world standing together and telling them that....