In a setback to operators offering Blackberry services, security agencies are understood to have hardened their stance and asked Department of Telecom to ensure that traffic originating and terminating in India should not travel outside the country."There should be a single point of delivery system for the entire Blackberry traffic in India and the traffic originating and terminating in India should not travel outside," the agencies said in a note to the Department of Telecom (DoT).The decision has been taken after Cairn Technologies along with US-based SS8 demonstrated e-mail monitoring solutions for the contents sent through Blackberry.According to sources, the agencies have found various limitations in the monitoring system (as demonstrated by the companies) both in terms of legality of the system as well as its quality."In case of heavy usage, the quality of service of the intercepted device would deteriorate noticeably, thereby increasing the chances of the user coming to know that his device was behaving abnormally," the note said.In view of the limitations, the security agencies have asked DoT to convey to the service providers offering Blackberry services on its network to make necessary monitoring arrangements to the satisfaction of security agencies, it added."The targeted intercepts of the Blackberry traffic should be delivered to the designated security agencies in a readable and intelligible format through the Indian carriers with the content being delivered in real time," it said.
