Posted on 01/17/2009 7:22:47 PM PST by Red Steel
Chalk up one possible win for Obama: He might be able to keep his BlackBerry after all.
He's been resisting the advice of lawyers and others to give up the e-mail device upon taking office because he views it as his connection to the outside world.
I think we're going to be able to beat this back, Obama said in a CNN interview of the pressure on him to give it up. I think we're going to be able to hang onto one of these. Now, my working assumption, and this is not new, is that everything I write on e-mail could end up being on CNN. So I make sure to to think before I press send.
Its just one tool among a number of tools that I'm trying to use, to break out of the bubble. To make sure that people can still reach me. But if I'm doing something stupid, somebody in Chicago can send me an e-mail and say, What are you doing? Obama said. I want to be able to have voices, other than the people who are immediately working for me, be able to reach out and and send me a message about what's happening in America.
Obama didnt describe what kind of arrangement he had made to keep the BlackBerry. After the interview, host John King said on CNN that Obama had not one but two BlackBerries with him Friday.
Oh c'mon. Calling him a BlackBerry is over the top.
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I hope his Crackberry gets hacked... would serve him right for not being smart.
Hey, let's write him. Anyone know the address? We could give him an earful!!!
He is hella stupid. No clue who he’s exposing besides himself.
I bet someone could print out every call from every phone (home/cell), he’s ever made, show it to him... and he still wouldn’t get it.
Constitutional lawyer my eye. Common sense my eye.
Something else besides his non-vetting for foreign countries to use (for leverage). He’s surrounded with thugs who can be bought... it just takes a second ala John O’Neill (rest his soul), with the briefcase or leaving it on a surface, and it’s over.
Who pays his bill?
You know, if Jim Jones, Stalin or Lenin were alive today... especially Lenin, they would want to keep their Blackberry. You have to be able to get your protesters and activist groups (blogs too), to agitate, push and pull, create drama for your direction or distraction.
How could the brownshirts and jackboots report without it?
(cough, kidding) gulp.
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If he was really Southside, he’d have a storage room full of Tracfones. Oops, nevermind.
funny he hasn't stopped to think it could end up on Pravda....
I've seen this expression at least a dozen times in relation to BHO ascending to the White House...no mention of 'bubble' during GWB's term, tho....makes me think it's 'conditioning' - kinda like 'pie'
.and the Camel he rode in on.
Like Gary Condit (remember him?) and his secret cell phone.
It's funny how the media are trying to spin his "refusal to relinquish" this private communications link as something "cute." It isn't cute. It's dangerous. It's arrogant. It's clueless.
He wants to keep a secret line to his handlers. He wants to be untraceable and unaccountable. He wants all the goodies of the Presidency, all the tinsel and trappings, and none of the responsibility.
He doesn't love our country at all.
What? Does he think he will be locked up in some ivory tower? Can’t he just tell his secretary the names of the people he wants them to put through?
Sounds like he wants to communicate with people that he doesn’t even want the secret service to know about. Wonder who these people may be?
I think we know who these people are...Ayers, Wright, The Kenyan mob...theChicago mob..
His unsecure comm line is a target, a honey pot, for all espionage agencies and hackers around the world. If I was in that business, I would assign a high priority to intercept Obama's communications. He's a fool.
Where all hackers who start thinking about attacking his little toy just go to Blackberry.com:
“Data encryption on the BlackBerry device
Administrators can set an IT policy to make sure that all BlackBerry® device user data stored in the BlackBerry device applications is encrypted locally in flash memory. You can create aBlackBerry Java® Application that uses APIs to register the data so that the encryption service encrypts the data with the same security key before storing it in flash memory.”
“Data encryption in transport
If you use the BlackBerry® Enterprise Server as the network gateway for your application, the BlackBerry Enterprise Server encrypts data using AES or TripleDES encryption at all points in the connection between the BlackBerry device and the BlackBerry Enterprise Server behind the organization’s firewall. If you require data to be encrypted further between the BlackBerry Enterprise Server and the destination server, you can use the HTTPS protocol and use SSL/TLS encryption.
If your application uses the BlackBerry® Internet Service or the Internet gateway of the wireless service provider, data traffic is not encrypted. If your BlackBerry device users prefer, you can use HTTPS to encrypt the data, or you can use the Java® APIs for encryption to apply your own symmetric key or public key cryptography.”
http://na.blackberry.com/eng/deliverables/5827/Data_encryption_and_BB_applications_447284_11.jsp
He needs to check in with DU,DK and Olberman a couple of times a day to see what the left wing bloggers are saying.
bttt
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