Indian Government Threatens to Ban Gmail, Skype and BlackBerry

[Old School]

Can you explain in detail.

As far as I know only professional millitary has its own lines of communication.

Terrorists have similar C3ISR like any professional military. They have similar or often superior command , control and communications than many of the affected country's military. They do not have to spend money for education or welfare. They have multi billion dollar budget which is entirely dedicated to terror campaigns. Their training manual is the same used by leading military in the world with significant modification. These all make it so difficult to counter the terrorists.

 

[Markus]

I think this is just speculation, india wont be banning gmail or skype, no way..too much negative publicity

This is the best post in the entire thread since there is absolutely no point in banning these services.

Needless to say that if they are banned, alternatives do exist for terrorists.

 

[v9s]

By touching the tail why do a few members feel they know the elephant?

Call interception is a major way of survelliance. This is a matter of National Security be it India or China .... DONT MIX IT WITH CENSORSHIP.

India is a Democracy with True freedom to expression and speech... Being an IT Hub can u even imagine ur wildest dreams that Gmail or Skype is blocked ?


Now this has to be the Difficulty in intercepting calls via VoIP... If a terrorist used BlackBERRY AND cOMMITS A CRIME WHICH REMAINS UNTRACED DO THE FACT THAT VOIP WAS THE COMMUNICATION CHANNEL .. ISNT GOVT. BOUND TO ACT ??? BE IT INDIAN/PAKISTANI/CHINESE GOV. ???

National security is above all especially when 26/11 was a recent incident.

Before speaking stupid stuff of 'india being in the same boat' ... Do understand what the news is actually about.

@v9s...

After posting a news do read what it means.

Its NOT the INTERNET CONTENT being OBJECTED but the VOIP Channel for Making Calls that is difficult to trace.

INTERNET is NOT EQUAL TO VOIP ... Hope u understand. That.

Jeez i never said anything about internet content. I KNOW that the Indian govt is asking for gmail/skype/etc transmissions to be decrypted.

 

[Justin Joseph]

What the hell is going on? First Pakistan, then Bangladesh, then Turkey and now India!!! What they hell!

We are not banning them for some weird reason or to censor.

Our concern are simple if one wants to understand that terrorists are using these services as they can't be monitored by security agencies.

We just want to plug some loop holes so that terrorists can't use them easily.

Its serious mater and every sensible person will agree with it.