The Indian government is still putting the pressure on RIM to allow access to all email on BlackBerry devices. The WSJ quotes Robert Crow, vice president of industry and government relations for RIM, as saying the demands made by the Indian Government are "rather astonishing."

"Robert Crow, vice president of industry and government relations for RIM, said India's Home Ministry, which oversees domestic security, wants the ability to intercept in real time any communication on any Indian network—including BlackBerry's highly secure corporate-email service—and get it in readable, plain-text format.

Such a broad requirement raises the question of whether the government believes any communications are legally off-limits, he said, including email conversations of foreign ambassadors and financial records that get transmitted over secure telecommunications networks to Indian outsourcing companies."

Once again I say RIM should simply tell the Indian government to take a hike. They will lose business in that country, but the rest of the world cannot cave to one country's radical idea of privacy. If RIM provides the India Government access to BlackBerry emails, will anyone else trust RIM with their info? I doubt it.