Remember Mumbai? Where terrorists shot anyone who moved? EVERYONE of those terrorists had a Blackberry to communicate with and without those Blackberry's they would not have been able to kill anyone!
Oh wait, that should be 'NONE' of the them Blackberrys, and the lack of communications has never stopped any terrorist ever.
Terrorism is the excuse here, as it so often is. If RIM found a way to grab corporate email keys, they would expose their corporate emails to Indian inspection. That's a major benefit to India.
Imagine being able to know commercial secrets of any company with an Indian subsidiary. It would be like, having access to the private bank transfer details of Europe... an incredible wealth of commercially sensitive information. Only a complete idiot, or a traitor would hand over sensitive information like that to a foreign power like India.
So RIM would be better off worldwide if they simply rejected India's demand. It would compromise their sales worldwide and they can capitalize on Nokia and Apple being so insecure they can be sold in India, whereas RIM cannot because they are too secure.
"RIM.... too secure to be sold in India"
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