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This is completely mindless ! Blackberries are FIPS compliant and will generate a private certificate on the handsets and all communication will be encrypted with the receiving parties public certificate and hence can only be decrypted by their own pvt certificate. Blackberry servers will only have everyone's public certificates which they can provide to the government so it can't help the government decrypt anything. If i encrypt it with your public certificate then only you can decrypt it using your private certificate. Similarly for skype or gmail etc if you use PKI like GPG or PGP etc. then google or skype can't do anything to help govt decrypt it. Besides, how many terrorists will use BES/BIS ? They will rather use untraceable stolen sim cards or satphones. And some arcane email provider instead of GMAIL - they're not looking for loads of features ! and anyway they'll send mails encrypted by GPG or any other encryption rather than depend on email provider. In fact they don't only send the mails - just save it in draft folder and other guy logs in to same ID and reads it. So the content remains in some other country and doesn't get transmitted across countries at all. This is just a waste of time & money - like banning open WIFI because terrorists sent a mail claiming credit for bombings through someone's WIFI in Mumbai. Its not stopping the bombing - only the claiming credit. Which will be done by calling a newspaper or sending a postcard if everything else was banned. Bombs & Guns are already banned but terrorists are still getting those. Might as well ban cars since terrorists use it. or water since terrorists survive by drinking it ! Such laws do not stop unlawful people. Only create problems for the innocent population. Govt doesn't apply its mind to solving any problem - just want to be seen as doing something. Preferably, something which creates a problem to someone's profit and would require some good old corruption to solve.

First of all I take no credit for this. This is after almost 4-5 days of research and then finally getting the root on my Incredible through this method that I thought may be I should write summary of what I researched so as to make the job easier for some noobs, like me. 1.Begin by installing HTC sync. 2.Also install Android SDK along with the USB driver. Now this driver is and its .inf is in the sdk folder/usb driver. 3.Edit .inf of usb driver by opening the .inf file and adding following lines under google.nt86 at the end of section: ; ;HTC Incredible %SingleAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_0BB4&PID_0C9E %CompositeAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_0BB4&PID_0C9E&MI_01 %SingleBootLoaderInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_0BB4&PID_0C94 Save this file. 4.Update drivers in device manager by browsing to path to saved USB driver, usually c:\sdk\usb_drivers. 5.Now download this Incredible Rooter app from Rooter Applic 6.extract to tools folder in sdk directory. 7.Now with phone on and connected to PC through USB, click rooter application from tools directory. Step 1. link "download" when finished downloading it will say finished, click OK. Step 2. link "Reboot into recovery" will cause the phone to reboot into recovery, Step 3. will check the success and will output "success" or "fail". If fail restart and continue from step 2. If you get "success", before going to next step, you should still be in the triangle with the ! screen. press vol up and power to go back to the menu. DO NOT REBOOT. 8.Press vol down to highlight "apply: update.zip" and press the power button It will say failled .... NO PROBLEM, carry on 9.In the Rooter application that is still running hit following: Step 4. "Push Files" will push all files. 10.now open cmd prompt type cd \ cd sdk cd tools 11.Now type the next command but DO NOT PRESS ENTER YET adb push payload-update.zip /sdcard/update.zip 12.Next step is on phone AND PC so read before executing. Press the power button on Apply: update.zip within 1/2 second (just as you see meter like thing start on phone) press enter on the command window to execute the above command. 13.If successful you should see “unrEVOked for Incredible” with some other stuff 14.Now type the following commands to make it persistent through reboot adb shell su /system/bin/cat /system/bin/sh > /system/bin/su /system/bin/chmod 4777 /system/bin/su export PATH=$PATH:/system/bin cd /system/app cat /sdcard/Superuser.apk > Superuser.apk cd /system/bin cat /sdcard/su > su ln -s /system/bin/su /system/xbin/su /* IF YOU GET AN ERROR HERE DO rm /system/xbin/su THEN REDO */ chmod 06755 su 15.Now you are rooted and can uninstall city id, etc /* City ID */ /system/bin/rm /system/app/CityID.apk 16.For wifi tether just click Post step "Enable WIFI Tether" link in Rooter application, Download wifi application from the link that will come up and save to SD card after reboot and install as any .apk. Hope this may help few in being rooted more easily.

The CDMA world phone BlackBerry Bold 9650 just got its approval by the FCC, which means that the device is one step closer to launch. The device was already announced at WES by Research in Motion and so far, Sprint has signed on for the device with an official launch coming on May 23 for $200 on contract and after rebates. The Bold 9650 will replace the BlackBerry Tour in Sprint's lineup and will feature support for both GSM/HSPA and CDMA/EV-DO Rev. A radios. RIM had also announced BlackBerry 6, RIM's next generation BlackBerry operating system, of which the BlackBerry Bold 9650 is rumored to be blessed with an upgrade when the time comes.