Which is one of the reasons BlackBerry would rather leave the country than piss off its customers by telling them they can&#x27;t use their own keys anymore.<p>They&#x27;re more than happy to give up the one and only consumer BBM key, as they&#x27;ve already done for India and Saudi Arabia, and possibly other countries as well that we don&#x27;t know about.<p>As the company&#x27;s COO said a couple of weeks ago, BlackBerry supports &quot;lawful intercept&quot; for their products and services:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;fedscoop.com&#x2F;blackberry-taking-balanced-approach-to-encryption-lawful-intercept" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;fedscoop.com&#x2F;blackberry-taking-balanced-approach-to-e...</a><p>And by the way, the article is inaccurate&#x2F;outdated. BlackBerry already said it will <i>delay</i> the exit (probably indefinitely) as the Pakistan government has already extended its BES shutdown by another month, and probably also indefinitely, as I don&#x27;t think it wanted BlackBerry to actually leave the country, but it hoped it could scare it into giving it access.<p>This also tells us companies (including BlackBerry in other countries) shouldn&#x27;t be so quick to &quot;pee in their pants&quot; (as another famous executive quote once said, even though I know he meant something different) as soon as governments start threatening them with a shutdown unless they provide backdoors or stop using strong encryption. Instead, they should do the right thing and <i>always</i> fight for their customers (including regular consumers, not just enterprise customers), even if that means using the final option of leaving the country (but it often won&#x27;t be the case).