Posted on 01/16/2009 4:57:14 PM PST by Red Steel
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Uh, why Chicago? Is that where the puppet's strings are located?
This article HAS to be satire. I can't believe this is from a CNN interview. It must be from The Onion.
>> “If I’m doing something stupid, somebody in Chicago can send me an email and say, ‘What are you doing?’
A portal PrompterBerry
No birth certificate, no BlackBerry?
Eh Barry?
Seriously, though (if this article isn't a spoof), BO has no clue about the mantle he's trying to assume. The President is supposed to protect the nation, not invite national security breaches.
I am very worried.
How about my Obama cat box? or toilet paper?
DAY-YUM, that’s very graphic but so very true.
Good luck getting His Holiness to comply with the law. Not like he has a history of doing that....
I believe there may be a DOD directive that required every participant in classified briefings relinquish all wireless devices prior to even entering the briefing room.
Sorry but I am pretty sure you are NOT the first one to say or post this.
Who cares about security? Look who is in charge? Pannetta?!
Comcast just started a 24 hr Obama Channel this week. So far it's mostly reruns of campaign speeches. No word on how long it will last.
I find this very ominous. Why Chicago? Tell me about 'somebody'.
It is more likely Obama needs the device to carry out “Chicago style” politics, if you know what I mean.
It may be that he needs to keep in contact with his handler.
Later, he was asked, “Are you having a good time?” Obama responded, “If I didn't have to move twice in five days I would be happy.”
Now who thinks Obama has ever lifted anything heavy or will have to move a thing.
Poor baby, and the subtext is...
Bush's fault!
Thus we have a real Crackbarry as Precedent !
You owe me a new keyboard and monitor! LOL
And you owe me a new mouse...thanks for the laugh!
Since he thinks he is superman, I think the SS should just quit right now.
He will want to keep up with his black jackbooted thugs and how things are going out there in flyover land with his re education plans...
There are two separate channels involved in making cell phone technology work. One is the channel you are actually communicating on, and the other is a "maintenance" channel that allows the device to negotiate with various cell phone towers for the best connection and bandwidth.
To ensure interoperability among the various carriers, from the infancy of the technology the "maintenance" channel was designed as essentially wide open, not secured, and not capable of being secured.
For this reason, there are several "hacks," widely available to every interested hacker, from the sophisticated threats to the 14 year old "wannabees" in Mom's basement; that allow you to remotely turn on a cell phone and use it as a remote listening device.
Turning off the cell phone does not defeat the hacks. You will never have any indication that your cell phone was on and was used in this manner, except for possibly a drained battery.
This is the reason behind the "No Cell Phones" rule in secured spaces, and why the little compartments you lock the phones in outside the secure spaces are essentially Faraday cages.
The use of the "maintenance"channel bypasses any logging or security mechanism built into the communications channel, significantly reducing the audit and forensics footprint, and the threat of discovery and prosecution of the hacker.
The only time you cell phone is not susceptible is if it is off, with the battery removed, and not connected to some other power source.
With two BlackBerries, Obama is essentially walking around with two bugging and recording devices that are throughly PWN3D by up to 200 different foreign intelligence collection threats. There only problem will be the competition with the other 800,000 or so threats capable of using the same technology, limited by the power and bandwidth of the devices. His only protection is that they will probably create a perpetual Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attack against him.
To quote that sage observer of human incompetence, Bugs Bunny: "What a maroon!"
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