In a just-posted eWeek piece entitled "RIM Workaround Still Too Vague for Comfort," article author Carmen Nobel asserts that the details of the "workaround" that would be brought to life should BlackBerry services be suspended are inconclusive enough that they could spark legal concern.

"The details that RIM released (yesterday) are still vague enough that lawyers can''t say whether patent-holding company NTP, which is suing RIM,will go ahead and sue RIM for the workaround too," Nobel writes.

While Nobel does not offer any specific attorney quotes to document her assertion, she does seem to draw that conclusion from a quote she has obtained from Kevin Alexander, a member of NTP's legal team and an attorney with Wiley Rein & Fielding in Washington, D.C.

"They (RIM) haven't given enough details sufficient to comment," Nobel quotes Alexander as saying. "They've said they're keeping the technical details confidential."

Hmm, I say. Could it be that RIM is keeping the technical deets too confidential?