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- MacroDaemon, on 01/14/2009, -5/+71Next up: Obama's Boxers: The securest jewels in the US.
- dalittle, on 01/14/2009, -4/+51says you. Transparency is needed.
- kdamp, on 01/14/2009, -1/+42Everyone wants that. The current White House was running its email through an RNC server which wasn't traced. Then, when the feds come looking for the records, the RNC throws up their hands and says, "We lost it. Our bad."
Transparency and record keeping is a good thing. - junskey, on 01/14/2009, -5/+44that is one ugly ass phone
- LiquidSpark, on 01/14/2009, -9/+44All these stories about his silly blackberry.... It's not about the security of the device. It's about the fact that once he's President, every single email he ever send or receives must be saved for the public record. No one wants that.
- Tetec, on 01/14/2009, -1/+30I wish I could e-chat with Scarlett Johansson too.
- onClipEvent, on 01/14/2009, -1/+25i still can't get over this:
"The NSA claims that the installed versions of Internet Explorer, WordPad, and Windows Messenger are good enough for data that's classified at a level of Secret." - GravyTrain6, on 01/14/2009, -3/+20Too...the word you are looking for is "too", with two o's..
At first, I thought I was taking a college entrance exam
The blackberry is to racist as the White House is to ________ - nkassi, on 01/14/2009, -6/+23But but, it runs windows, how can it be secure? Can't they just take android and modify it to their spec? Put SeLinux on there and openssl nsa edition.
(Awaiting getting buried) - russ3, on 01/14/2009, -1/+18I'm just relieved they didnt call it the "first blackberry". I'm sick of this first puppy and first wii *****.
- nbluth, on 01/14/2009, -1/+16To everyone thats complaining that they don't care what Obama is doing, this article is more to show off a damn cool phone. I mean the hardware and programming that goes into making something that secure is amazing
- dalittle, on 01/14/2009, -1/+14@SemiSarcastic : If you let me make daily decisions about your life for a 4 year term including what you are and are not allow to do and how much taxes you pay then yes, after my term, you can read them.
- rusty0101, on 01/14/2009, -1/+13Actually 'Secret' is not all that impressive of a classification. If there are considered to be 5 levels of secrecy, where level 1 is Unclassified or Public, Secret sits between 2 and 3. It is about the threshold where 'need to know' is not the only consideration in determining whether that information is granted.
- sportsburn, on 01/14/2009, -18/+29Sure, it's secure. But will it blend?
- ClevelandBrown, on 01/14/2009, -6/+17I hate when people say 'not,' it's so teenage-girl-ish.
- onux16, on 01/14/2009, -0/+11Funny enough, I heard on the radio today that a new startup is selling Obama-printed pajamas for the inauguration, dubbed officially "Ojamas". Seriously... I couldn't make that up if I tried.
- inactive, on 01/14/2009, -0/+9LemurDaddy is grounded from the caffine.
- bryantee, on 01/14/2009, -0/+8Article must be a spoof, right? NSA advocating IE and Windows? They specifically developed SELinux.
- jake1337, on 01/14/2009, -4/+12A "not" joke? Really? This is 2009, update your humor.
- dylansbeard1, on 01/14/2009, -1/+9secret is not that high. i had a secret clearance while in the air force, very low level.
- Dotcommer, on 01/14/2009, -1/+9So you admit that what you said previously WAS gay...
- Psamtik, on 01/14/2009, -0/+7Unless the process enters the 21st century. Everything is part of public record anyway. The only problem is security, not bureaucracy.
- offrdbandit, on 01/14/2009, -0/+7The NSA is not retarded, but you may have hurt some poor technician's feelings by posting this (you can be certain your post has passed through NSA hardware by now).
The biggest security concerns for the device would be tracking the device (and knowing where the President is) and monitoring the device (and knowing what is being said in the vicinity of the device). It's unlikely the device will be used for sensitive (at least sensitive from the perspective of national security or intelligence) information.
As long as Obama doesn't pretend he's Elliot Spitzer and try to find hookers on the thing he should be fine. It's not like the White House is going to load "Nuclear Missile Launcher 2.15 for Windows Mobile" on the damn thing. - shaka999, on 01/14/2009, -1/+8The drive for transparency just suppresses the communication which isn't good for anyone.
In other words, if every email is saved then no emails are sent and a very useful tool made useless. - vashth3stampede, on 01/14/2009, -0/+7and people wonder why other refer to them as "CrackBerries"
- MattB123, on 01/14/2009, -0/+7Well, they still have whispering!
- F0RMLESSNESS, on 01/14/2009, -1/+7and here I was thinking it was so Wayne's World
- inactive, on 01/15/2009, -0/+6RIM shot?
- kaod, on 01/14/2009, -2/+8... it runs windows mobile?... really?
- russ3, on 01/14/2009, -0/+6right, I think he's saying it would be better not to email than to have your emails reviewed for possible inclusion into public record.
- PGPirate, on 01/14/2009, -1/+7I wonder what his high score at BrickBreaker is?
- jsd8cc, on 01/14/2009, -1/+6"The Sectera runs a mobile version of Microsoft Windows..."
Uhhhh... - soccerman90, on 01/15/2009, -0/+5Just because you have the knowledge that his car is a ***** tank that can withstand heavy fire doesnt mean you will somehow be able to damage it
- aklu, on 01/14/2009, -0/+5I wouldn't bitch if I was president of the USA or another industrialized nation.
I would bitch very loudly if you tried to make me president of Zimbabwe. - SemiSarcastic, on 01/14/2009, -2/+7I think we all need to stop living in the illusion that the internet is a place for privacy. If you need to pass information that's too important for others to get their hands on then you pass that information in person. No exceptions.
- anthropodeus, on 01/14/2009, -2/+7that's interesting. i thought it was Boratian
- LemurDaddy, on 01/14/2009, -2/+7If everyone were like you, our economy would never recover. Techno-lust is at the heart of our development, you luddite, you Mennonite, you Amish-in-training. Go back to your abacus and measure distances by the chain, stade and league. How many cubits to a fathom?
- aklu, on 01/14/2009, -1/+5Yah... and the NSA is going to give ZDNet the details on what he's actually using. You know what propaganda is, right?
- j1ggy, on 01/15/2009, -0/+4RIM is Canadian.
- darkecho, on 01/14/2009, -0/+4Holy crap, that thing has a CAC reader. Things are getting a bit ridiculous now (along with the price tag).
- DifferentDrum, on 01/15/2009, -1/+5I think the politically correct term is not BlackBerry, but "African American"Berry. The man is one week away from becoming the most important human on earth and it is still all about the color of his phone. Please.
- ThatGeek, on 01/14/2009, -0/+4i like how they are saying that the blackberry isnt secure because you could install something if you had physical possession of the device. If you let someone have possession of the thing you dont want cracked, chances are it will get cracked. There are always smarter people in the world. There is always a way in.
- FenianNProud, on 01/14/2009, -0/+4"No one wants that."
Actually, the American people want that - the government as we've known it for the last 10-15yrs doesn't.
Transparency to Congress and the Presidency would go a long way to preventing the kind of insider BS, i.e. lobbyist favors, cover ups, etc. we all know is going on, but no one wants to talk about. - inactive, on 01/14/2009, -0/+4But now he can use The Google.
- ziptnf, on 01/14/2009, -0/+4Why not? You're making it sound like transparent government is a bad thing.
- cfuse, on 01/15/2009, -1/+5Get real, you just want to e-bang her.
- inactive, on 01/14/2009, -1/+5Maybe I'm a teenage girl.
- jonlarge, on 01/15/2009, -1/+5well, you see, there was this thing called watergate...
- inactive, on 01/14/2009, -1/+5Probably because Obama smokes crack?
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