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McCain Campaign Sells Info-Loaded Blackberry PDAs

Posted by timothy on from the quickly-unring-that-bell dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A news station in Washington D.C. has reported that the McCain Campaign has allegedly sold to reporters Blackberry handhelds with campaign-related information such as e-mail messages and phone numbers: 'We traced the Blackberry back to a staffer who worked for "Citizens for McCain" ... The emails contain an insider's look at how grassroots operations work, full of scheduling questions and rallying cries for support ... But most of the numbers were private cell phones for campaign leaders, politicians, lobbyists and journalists. "Somebody made a mistake," one owner told us. "People's numbers and addresses were supposed to be erased."'"

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  1. Nice. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I wish my incompetence could land me a job whereby I have full access to politicians and such and I can just hand out their information freely :D

  2. Thanks but no thanks by MillionthMonkey · · Score: 5, Funny

    I said "thanks but no thanks" to those naked pictures of Sarah Palin that I found on my Blackberry.

    1. Re:Thanks but no thanks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      I said "thanks but no thanks" to those naked pictures of Sarah Palin that I found on my Blackberry.

      but don't you want to know Who's nailin' Palin>

    2. Re:Thanks but no thanks by fermion · · Score: 3, Funny

      I would be more interested in Bristol's wedding date. I could sell that to magazine for a million dollars.

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    3. Re:Thanks but no thanks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      That was the one that was blinking "12:00" over and over

    4. Re:Thanks but no thanks by Jah-Wren+Ryel · · Score: 4, Funny

      That boy dodged a huge bullet when the repubs lost.
      If McCain had won, that would have probably been the biggest shotgun wedding in the history of the USA.
      Marry Bristol, or spend the rest of his life in Gitmo... <insert obvious joke about not being sure which is worse>

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  3. Excellent... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now I can learn all the secrets of a highly successful political campaign!

    Oh wait...

    1. Re:Excellent... by ChromeAeonium · · Score: 2, Funny

      Now I can learn all the secrets of a highly successful political campaign!

      That's easy.
       
      1) Tell people how great things are going to be if you're elected.
       
      2) Keep telling people how great things are going to be if you're elected.
       
      3) Tell them how great things are going to be some more.
       
      4) ???
       
      5) Profit!

  4. Fresh Set of GOP Numbers by soloport · · Score: 4, Funny

    Fresh set of GOP numbers? What to do...

    Joe: Hello?

    New BB Owner: Is your refrigerator running?

    So many possibilities!

    1. Re:Fresh Set of GOP Numbers by Al+Dimond · · Score: 5, Funny

      Ha, more like...

      Me: Is your toilet running?

      Joe: Why, yes!

      Me: Better hire an actual plumber to fix it.

  5. You know... by Minwee · · Score: 3, Funny
    If only the Blackberry were designed with a little more security in mind then this wouldn't happen.

    Maybe if it were possible to set a password on the thing, making the entire handheld unusable without entering it, and if it could wipe its memory after ten failed password attempts. That would be nice.

    And perhaps there should be some kind of "Enterprise Server" that could manage the things remotely, with the ability to set security policies and disable them entirely when they were no longer needed. That would be nice too.

    But, sadly, those options don't seem to be there. Otherwise, why wouldn't they have been used?

  6. Re:They don't understand by Opportunist · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's all about procedure. The prescribed procedure requires hard drives to be wiped, so when you forget it you order the drives back and wipe them. This way the procedure is fulfilled, the system works.

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  7. Re:Not a surprise... by cdrguru · · Score: 1, Funny

    Simple answer - limit technology to a level which does no harm. Anything after about 1900 or so is going to create pollution and harm. No escaping it really. Are we ready to bite that bullet? If you want the Earth to be a pristine paradise you better start thinking this way.

  8. Re:Not a surprise... by maxume · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh yeah, coal and horse shit are an environmental wonderland just waiting to happen.

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