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Pakistan has reportedly ordered the nation's carriers to cease offering services that route email through BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES), a product that among other things encrypts email. Pakistan's Express Tribune reports that the nation's Ministry of Interior last Friday instructed the Pakistan Telecommunication …

  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Irrelevant

    Pakistan probably needs to know what the American intelligence and other security operatives are communicating while on its soil. Most informants would probably be using BBM as it would have been cheaper and much less conspicuous.

    1. jake Silver badge

      @A "4 hrs" (WETMER) (was: Re: Irrelevant)

      Yes, irrelevant. But your reasoning isn't exactly copacetic. Rather, Pakistan & and BlackBerry are both irrelevant on the world security stage.

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        Re: @A "4 hrs" (WETMER) (was: Irrelevant)

        Dear Jake, the decider of relevance and all things relevant.

        Your opinion reeks of self importance and arrogance. Perhaps you would spend your valuable time in other topics, and leave us mere mortals to ponder the irrelevant topics in peace?

  2. Captain DaFt

    Ah, yes!

    The old making us all more secure by making you less secure gambit.

    A sure fire way to make the world safe from... Uh, what exactly? Freedom?

    1. Robert Helpmann??
      Childcatcher

      Re: Ah, yes!

      A sure fire way to make the world safe from... Uh, what exactly? Freedom?

      Terrorists! They are still new to the game, so they haven't had time to work in a "think of the children" rationale, but give them time...

    2. hailbaal

      Re: Ah, yes!

      Yeah that is a big problem. I know the US has the same situation. It doesn't even matter what politician rules that country, they keep getting their rights removed. The same problem occurs in Europe as well. In the end, 1984 won't be a work of fiction but a history book.

      1. Zippy's Sausage Factory
        Joke

        Re: Ah, yes!

        History book? Don't you mean "idealistic vision of a utopian society", the way things are going?

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