Paul McDougall reports: Having given RIM a 60-day reprieve from a ban on Blackberry messaging traffic, Indian authorities have now set their sites on Google and Skype. As they did with RIM, authorities in the country are demanding access to data that flows across Google’s and Skype’s servers. “The notices to these entities will be…
Category: Non-U.S.
Orange Spain disclosing user phone number
From the Certificate Error blog: I’m currently assessing how mobile operators modify and enrich HTTP headers. I´ve already analyzed the main operators in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and UK with very interesting results I´ll publish soon. […] During the assessment I found that Orange Spain is adding the user MSISDN in any HTTP request sent…
We don’t peek into emails or eavesdrop on Canadians: Spy agency
Douglas Quan reports: A spokesman for this country’s ultrasecret electronic-spy agency, Communications Security Establishment, said Monday that the agency is not in the business of prying into Canadians’ private communications — and that if they do pick up emails or cellphone chats, it’s “unintentional.” The spokesman was responding to published comments last week that the…
My: Probe into leak of text messages, phone calls
The alleged leak of confidential text messages and telephone conversations of a woman is now being probed by the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC). The MCMC is checking to ascertain if the telecommunication company had committed any offence. The directive to investigate came from Information, Communication and Culture Minister Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim…