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Obama Keeps His Blackberry (And Gets a Sectera)
InternetVoting writes "After all the controversy surrounding Obama's Blackberry, word has come that he will get to keep it. Few details are available and neither the National Security Agency nor the White House are talking. The current rumor is that the Blackberry will be used exclusively for personal use and a Sectera Edge will be used for official communications."
Kinda like rnc.org for personal use and whitehouse.gov for official communications?
Go green: turn off your refrigerator.
On Monday, a government agency that the Obama administration -- but that is probably the National Security Agency -- added to a standard blackberry a super-encryption package.... and Obama WILL be able to use it ... still for routine and personal messages.
Sentence goes -- but that isn't so... and someone WILL be -- understanding of this ... still better than me.
I went to eat some animal crackers and the box said, "Do not eat if seal is broken." I opened the box and sure enough..
And in the event that a case is made, internal to the administration, that the President -- now or in the future -- really needs to have his own personal communications device(s), that fact in itself -- not to mention the specific equipment and carriers -- doesn't need to be, and, frankly, shouldn't be, publicly disclosed.
Whoa, sentence, Batman. That hurts my head.
What I think Obama wants is to not loose contact to the people who got him into office in the first place. And THAT I find commendable.
Don't worry, I'm sure someone at the White House has George Soros's number.
all his communication to us would come in the form of burning Bushes and stone tablets
* Winners compare their achievements to their goals, losers compare theirs to that of others.
I'm waiting for the first time he's in a meeting with the most honored prime poobah of turkarmenikazicenglistan, and starts a war by insulting said poobah by checking the blackberry and replying to emails the way all of my bosses do in the middle of supposedly crucial meetings.
AICMFP.
That's heart, not hart, and ass, not a$$... :) /sarcasm
Grammer Nazis - I mod you "troll" unless you actually add something on-topic. Yes, I know I have mispellings in my sig.
Don't you know the Pentagon has a GUI system down in Cuba? Great Underwater Interrogation!
Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals... except the weasel."
But to not have a personal device because he is the "President" is pure crap! Since when did the "President" become royalty?
You're absolutely right. Taking away Royal Blackberries is a time honored tradition that dates back to Edward the First and should not be applied to lowly public servants.
That is the reason we use unencrypted and unsigned email via Outlook for all our correspondence including confidential mails. If it is good enough for the CEO it is good enough for everybody else.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
The BlackBerry model by design is insecure (from a national security perspective). All of the data communication is routed through systems owned by a Canadian corporation (RIM).
You mean our partners in NORAD? I'm sorry, but if we can't trust the Canadians, we're already frakked...
"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."