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Credit: Reuters/Amit Dave By Georgina Prodhan and Alastair Sharp LONDON/TORONTO | Tue Aug 9, 2011 12:23pm EDT LONDON/TORONTO (Reuters) - A lawmaker called on Tuesday for BlackBerry's instant messaging service to be suspended after rioters used it to mobilize in London and other British cities. David Lammy, Member of Parliament for Tottenham, where London's worst riots for decades began on Saturday, appealed on Twitter and on BBC radio for BlackBerry maker Research in Motion to suspend BlackBerry Messenger (BBM). "This is one of the reasons why unsophisticated criminals are outfoxing an otherwise sophisticated police force," he tweeted. "BBM is different as it is encrypted and police can't access it." The riots, in which shops are being looted and cars and buildings set ablaze, spread to Britain's second-largest city Birmingham and other centers. Politicians and police are blaming the violence on criminals and hooligans but some commentators and local residents say its roots lie in anger over economic hardship in a city where the prospects for many youths are dim. Many of the rioters favor BlackBerry Messenger over Twitter and other social media because its messages are encrypted and private, but the service is widely used and messages can easily be sent to groups. Research In Motion said in a statement on Monday: "As in all markets around the world where BlackBerry is available, we cooperate with local telecommunications operators, law enforcement and regulatory officials." The company declined to say whether it was handing over chat logs or user details to police. Research In Motion's Inside BlackBerry blog was hacked on Tuesday by a group going by the name of Teampoison. The group posted a warning to the company not to cooperate with police. "You Will _NOT_ assist the UK Police because if u do innocent members of the public who were at the wrong place at the wrong time and owned a blackberry will get charged for no reason at all," the statement said. "If you do assist the police by giving them chat logs, gps locations, customer information & access to peoples BlackBerryMessengers you will regret it, we have access to your database which includes your employees information; e.g - Addresses, Names, Phone Numbers etc. - now if u assist the police, we _WILL_ make this information public and pass it onto rioters," it said. YOUNGER CLIENTELE Sameet Kanade, analyst at Northern Securities in Toronto, said: "RIM will need the directive of the UK authorities and the cooperation of the carriers. Lawful intercept is the only valid legal reason that a carrier and handset vendor can intervene. "In terms of actual mechanism, RIM has always claimed that it is unable to de-encrypt/decipher messages routed through the BES or BIS servers. It may be able to disable the routing of messages at best, from what I understand." Geoff Blaber, analyst with UK telecoms research firm CCS Insight, said: "One option would be to switch it off. But BBM is highly popular and has got a big installed base in the UK." BlackBerry Messenger, or BBM as it is popularly known, has driven sales to new audiences for RIM in recent years as it expanded from its base as a tool for executives to a more consumer and younger clientele. It has more than 45 million active users worldwide, 70 percent of whom use it daily, sending billions of messages in total every month. Users with data plans can instantly pass text messages, pictures and other files without incurring charges from their network carrier. RIM has got into hot water in the past on the one hand for cooperating with governments seen as repressive, and on the other for not cooperating enough with the security needs of authorities in some countries. Its encrypted services, which it moves over its own servers via telecom carriers, have been blamed for aiding militant attacks in India and for allowing unrelated men and women to communicate in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. In August last year, a source close to talks between RIM and Saudi authorities said the Canadian company had agreed to hand over information that would allow monitoring of BBM. A deal was also reached in the UAE, averting a threatened ban on all BlackBerry services. The company says it cooperates with authorities around the world with a consistent standard. RIM has been relatively willing to provide authorities with access to its consumer services, such as BBM, but says it has no way of allowing monitoring of its enterprise email. In the case of India, RIM gave the authorities access to BlackBerry Messenger services but said it did not have the technical capabilities to provide interception of corporate emails on the popular device. India has demanded access to all BlackBerry services as part of efforts to fight militancy and security threats over the Internet and through telephone communications In London, Deputy Assistant Commissioner Stephen Kavanagh of the Metropolitan police said on Tuesday: "Police have got extensive monitoring of this BlackBerry messaging model and actually a lot of people who are seeing these Blackberry messages are forwarding them to the police." Police did not immediately respond to a request for more details of how they were monitoring message traffic. (Additional reporting by Michael Holden; Editing by Janet Lawrence) Technology Related Quotes and News Company Price Related News Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story through relevant opinion, anecdotes, links and data. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. For more information on our comment policy, see http://blogs.reuters.com/fulldisclosure/2010/09/27/toward-a-more-thoughtful-conversation-on-stories/ Comments (5) phillip66 wrote: This is typical of our oppressive regime that we live under. They condemn the actions of foreign countries when they commit such actions yet they believe nothing wrong with their own actions… Aug 09, 2011 12:39pm EDT -- Report as abuse bitterweed wrote: I thot dese were po folks..but de be armed with blackberries n such. Aug 09, 2011 12:46pm EDT -- Report as abuse edgewatervince wrote: Sounds like Assayd has made it to GB. Aug 09, 2011 3:13pm EDT -- Report as abuse See All Comments » Add Your Comment Social Stream (What's this?) 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