Obama may keep BlackBerry after all(Not giving it up)

Politico ^ | 1/17/09 10:18 AM EST | CARRIE BUDOFF BROWN

[End Times Sentinel]

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.

[Peanut Gallery]

ping

[Trajan88]

To "O" it is all about him... "politics" of relativism.

I hope his Crackberry gets hacked... would serve him right for not being smart.

[BAW]

be able to reach out and — and send me a message about what's happening in America

Hey, let's write him. Anyone know the address? We could give him an earful!!!

[AliVeritas]

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?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

He needs his Soros hotline in order to know what to do.

[AliVeritas]

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.

[AliVeritas]

ping

[AliVeritas]

If he was really Southside, he’d have a storage room full of Tracfones. Oops, nevermind.

[blueplum]

everything I write on e-mail could end up being on CNN

funny he hasn't stopped to think it could end up on Pravda....

[blueplum]

to break out of the bubble

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'

[Colonial Warrior]

….and the Camel he rode in on.

[thecodont]

Yeah, like that sinking feeling a spouse gets when they realize their husband/wife has a secret email account, or a cell phone they didn't know about, or a credit card/bank account... The only reason to insist upon secrecy is to keep secret something that needs to be kept secret due to its embarrassing, illegal, or immoral nature.

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.

[MagnoliaB]

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?

[celtic gal]

I think we know who these people are...Ayers, Wright, The Kenyan mob...theChicago mob..

[Red Steel]

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.

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.

[Red Steel]

Where all hackers who start thinking about attacking his little toy just go to Blackberry.com:

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“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

[jersey117]

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.

[timestax]

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