Canadian wireless device company, Research in Motion (RIM), maker of the popular Blackberry handheld communication device, has finally broken the silence surrounding Indian Government’ demands to handover the “keys” to decrypt secure email communications.

RIM claims that it not possible to handover the decryption keys and claims setting up a local datacenter would serve no purpose given the end-to-end security deployed in its solution. RIM further declared that its solution architecture is designed in a way that does not allow any third party including RIM to read the email data under any circumstances. (more…)

Personal information of almost half the national population of Chile was leaked on the Internet at about 1:30 AM CLT on Saturday, May 10th.

The names, addresses, academic and social status information along with other details were uploaded to the popular file-sharing website, rapidshare.com and a Chilean file sharing site, compartelo.cl. The download links to three files were posted on the public forums on FayerWayer.com, the popular Chilean technology blog.

The information is reportedly obtained from Government bodies: the Dirección General de Movilización Nacional (Directorate of National Mobilization) – DGMN, the Servicio Electoral (Electoral Service) – SERVEL, the Ministry of Education – Mineduc. It also contains over 2 million telephone records for 849 cities in Chile

According to the conservative Chilean news agency, El Mercurio, police are still investigating the leaked information to confirm the hacker’s claims.

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