[psranga]

Umm, RIM is providing to India exactly what they have to many other countries. So you are probably excluding a large part of the world from your list of places fit for you to live. The agreement covers "consumer Blackberry services". Presumably, corporate Blackberry emails are encrypted using a customer-generated key and hence RIM can't decrypt those.

FWIW, I am happy to see such snooping by governments. If this is what it takes for mass adoption of encryption, then so be it.

Your points about corruption in India are on the mark. I disagree that "few are willing ...". I see signs of change and renewal all the time. Change isn't fast enough though.