BlackBerry brouhaha all about control

Published August 18, 2010

About BlackBerry's battles abroad, I didn't understand much except this: Just as Stockwell Day will build prisons for criminals he cannot find, Research in Motion will give foreign governments the data tools it said it didn't have, allowing them to snoop on their citizens.

So I phoned around to ask about the politics of instant messaging, emailing, Web browsing, etc. I did not pretend to have understood...