World's Greatest Hacker Says Obama's BlackBerry Can Be Breached

FoxNews.com ^ | Friday, February 13, 2009 | Joshua Rhett Miller

[Joiseydude]

There's a new "holy grail" for hackers — President Obama's super-secure BlackBerry.

Despite warnings from his advisers, the president insisted on keeping his beloved PDA, which now has specially designed superencrypting security software.

But that just makes cracking into it more challenging — and, yes, it can be done, says the world's most famous hacker.

"It's a long shot, but it's possible," Kevin Mitnick told FOXNews.com. "You'd probably need to be pretty sophisticated, but there's people out there who are."

[al baby]

Im sure all our enemies are already at work on it

[SampleMan]

The Chinese probably have an entire division of IT geeks on it.

Then again, Obama probably gives the Chinese full access, so belay my last.

[Doogle]

he was warned by the Secret Service, but insisted....guess he takes security real serious

[MayflowerMadam]

I’d think that anything that isn’t hard-wired can be breached.

[Crazieman]

I don’t think I could give up my Instinct either. Have to cut him slack there.

[domenad]

Mitnick is not a “Hacker” in the sense that he figures out software and the weaknesses in it. Rather, he is a proponent of “social engineering”, whereby passwords and other critical data are searched out by other means such as lax security, phishing, and the like. He could no sooner crack Obama’s blackberry than I could. He could, however, perhaps find a way to steal the password, which is a hazard all secure networks must contend with.

[Soothesayer]

What does he have to worry about? He is already friends with all of America’s enemies.

[SpaceBar]

A honeypot for the technically adept but super-stupid.

[Mmogamer]

He just wants to talk to Ayers and the rest of his commie pals,. since the white house logs calls you know..

[BossLady]

Can you imagine what you would find on his Blackberry?

To Nazi Pelosi - AYSOS? IM BBMFIC!!!!

To Pinky Reid - NIMJD!!!!!

To Chillary - UR A PIAPS!!!

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Putin already has Obama’s PIN number.

[Smogger]

Social Engineering is a well respected form of hacking.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

I don’t think I could give up my Instinct either.

You aren't Commander in Chief.

[Doogle]

...whats gonna happen is some 7th grader from a local DC school is going to make headlines saying he hacked it....then a new policy “bill” will be signed into law..all computers will be registered with the FEDS

[libh8er]

"If I was the attacker, I would look to Obama's close circle of friends, family and associates and try to compromise their machines at home,"

A good starting point would be his two little skullsful of mush.

[sam_paine]

To Chillary - UR A PIAPS!!!

PIAPS? Prick In A PantSuit?

[BigBlueJon]

lol.....ysan

[Doogle]

...YOU MAY BE RIGHT ON THAT.....

[libh8er]

You aren't Commander in Chief.

That would be Commander in Thief. He's the biggest thief in the country right now.