foxnews.com — Mexican press attache is caught on Secret Service camera pocketing several White House BlackBerries at recent SPP meeting in New Orleans. Gives a whole new meaning to Security and Prosperity, and emphasises Calderon's worry about 'backwardness' in the Parthnership. Why worry about illegals when the diplomats are illegal?
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robthomApr 25, 2008
I'm tempted to digg you down for using the word "perfidy" since I dont know what it means. Bring it down a notch frasier.
phillesh69Apr 25, 2008
Not necessarily "espionage", at least not in traditional terms. More likely the guy thought he could gleen some information that he could use personally by publishing it in a newspaper or something, or to gain some sort of advantage in negotiations.So yeah, if it was for gaining an advantage in negotiations, I suppose low-level espionage is the best way to call it. Had he been even remotely knowledgeable of technology, he would have done better trying to use his blackberry to find any of the others that had an active bluetooth signal that he could then use to sneak into the blackberries without anyone ever knowing he had done anything.
danixdefcon5Apr 25, 2008
True. Mine's password protected, with "Content Protection" enabled, so even if they hack their way into the flash memory, the data would still be unreadable. Then again, we're talking about BUSH staff, so maybe they didn't. By the way, I'm a Mexican, and I think the federal government is a bunch of theiving bastards, beginning with the fact that they thieved their way into office back in 2006. Stupid move for this guy, with his income he could've bought those blackberries himself!
danixdefcon5Apr 25, 2008
With Content Protection enabled, they don't even have to worry about that, as the data's encrypted. Of course, this depends on password security, but it does make a Blackberry something not exactly hot for espionage works.
Closed AccountApr 25, 2008
blow me.
arana1Apr 26, 2008
"extremely tight" so tight they had to go to the airport AFTER he already had picked up the phones, talk about tight security.i just wonder why the owners of the devices didn't notice anything if this was supposed to happen at the end of the event, why there was NOBODY guarding the phones of the so called high officials? they supposedly hold important information.. that is how good security is in the WHITE HOUSE!
txchicaApr 26, 2008
I should add, belatedly, that the majority of the Mexican population are good, honest people, it's normally people in a position in power that is corrupted.
djarcadianApr 29, 2008
You like to hear yourself talk don't you? Sorry, but I'm not so in love with gadgets that when someone says Blackberrie I think of a PDA instead of the fruit.