{"id":33304,"date":"2011-09-06T08:38:45","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T06:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=33304"},"modified":"2011-09-06T09:39:59","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T07:39:59","slug":"blackberry-access-by-gov-questioned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/33304-blackberry-access-by-gov-questioned.html","title":{"rendered":"BlackBerry access by Gov questioned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government wants new regulation giving the police access to <a title=\"BlackBerry\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/342709-BlackBerry\">BlackBerry&#8217;s<\/a> encrypted messenger service (BBM), according to reports on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>BBM had become the favoured way of executing crimes, Deputy Communications Minister <a title=\"Obed Bapela\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/280439-Obed-Bapela\">Obed Bapela<\/a> told the Southern Africa Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference in East London on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report in The New Age, Bapela said BBM posed a security risk that the government needed to &#8220;address with urgency&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is evidence that criminals are now using BBM to plan and execute crime. We want to review BBM like in the UK and Saudi Arabia,&#8221; Bapela was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>But Business Day reported that Bapela&#8217;s comments puzzled technology experts, who said that the Regulation of Interception of Communication Act would include the tracking of BBM being permitted if crimes were committed.<\/p>\n<p>Justice spokesman Tlali Tlali told <a title=\"SABC\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/313653-South-African-Broadcasting-Corporation-(SABC)\">SABC<\/a> radio news on Tuesday morning that the &#8220;interception of communication&#8230; is regarded as a technique of last resort&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Recent riots in the UK were reportedly organised through BBM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government wants new regulation giving the police access to BlackBerry&#8217;s encrypted messenger service (BBM)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":30320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,27],"tags":[36,97,1023,1041,907,4486],"class_list":["post-33304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","category-security","tag-active","tag-blackberry","tag-doc","tag-obed-bapela","tag-rica","tag-tlali-tlali"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33306,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33304\/revisions\/33306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}