The Pakistanis just played this stupidly. The article says &quot;The Pakistani government wanted to be able to monitor every message and email sent via its phones, it said.&quot; That&#x27;s ridiculous, of course no firm would agree.<p>What you have to do instead is to say you want to have access to records that may help against terror, everything approved by a court of course. Then create a court, make it process as many requests as you want. You appoint the court so it will rubber-stamp whatever you want (you must let 1% requests fail for plausible deniability). Make Blackberry complicit enough that they have no face-saving if they make it public. Viola! You have a spy system going.