Posted on 01/23/2009 4:15:22 AM PST by Loyalist
WASHINGTON — There is one addiction President Obama will not have to kick: his BlackBerry.
For more than two months, Mr. Obama has been waging a vigorous battle with his handlers to keep his BlackBerry, which like millions of other Americans he has relied upon for years to stay connected with friends and advisers. (And, of course, to get Chicago White Sox scores.)
He won the fight, aides disclosed Thursday, but the privilege of becoming the nation’s first e-mailing president comes with a specific set of rules.
“The president has a BlackBerry through a compromise that allows him to stay in touch with senior staff and a small group of personal friends,” said Robert Gibbs, his spokesman, “in a way that use will be limited and that the security is enhanced to ensure his ability to communicate.”
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Bill Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, Mahmoud Abbas....
Sorta kinda like the goobermint can track "we the peoples".
Obama needs his Blackberry. He needs it so he knows what to say and when he needs to say it. He claims he is high tech...that may be true.
I say he is tech dependent and would be lost in the trees without it. This tech biz concerning him is no different than a teleprompter or an earpiece. Those are his necessary props to keep up his image.
z-man and binny.
LLS
Only a matter of time before some one hacks into it. Heck if they can hack into pentagon computers why not that self absorbed twit’s Blackberry?
I thought he told everyone to put childish things aside?
LLS
“The president has a BlackBerry through a compromise that allows him to stay in touch with senior staff and a small group of personal friends,” said Robert Gibbs, his spokesman, “in a way that use will be limited and that the security is enhanced to ensure his ability to communicate.”
Rightttttt.............
Like no hacker has ever gotten into anything protected by the Government.
Of course this use of the blackberry will be secure and he would never use it to convey anything that would help Americans enemeis...
Got that...
The SS needs to allow zer0 to communicate with these people. They would monitor every word and tape the conversations. Later release the evidence to the CIA with the damning proof that he is "indeed" a traitor to this country and convicted for high treason.
The MSM try to make it so cool. Barry is just so nouveau, he couldn’t be caught without his Blackberry.
Bam is all about smoke and mirrors. Shame so many people can’t realize they were hoodwinked.
He is an idiot. He is willing to endanger the US over his personal tastes.
Exactly what Rush said yesterday over the Gitmo thing. He is all politics above security.
It won’t be a “victory” if terrorists or bad guys lock in on Obama’s phone. It is a terrible security risk, but what does he care? Just more trouble for everyone who has to keep this guy and America safe.
Will Obama’s email address be:
BlackBarry’s_Blackberry @ WhiteHouse.gov?
Yeah. Someone will hack it. Post some contents. Cause embarrassment to the prez.
It is only a matter of time.
[We can see this one coming. Too bad Barry can’t.]
Unbelievable. Now Bush was too stupid to know how to email.
“Will Obama’s email address be:
BlackBarry’s_Blackberry @ WhiteHouse.gov?”
Cute very cute!
Bty, PghBaldy, I like your tag line LOL
BeigeBarry’s_Blackberry @ WhiteHouse.gov?”
Except that the White Sox haven't played for the last two months.
As this was said on national radio yesterday, I feel comfortable sharing it here. A caller to Glenn Beck said another issue is that when it is turned on, the GPS can pinpoint its position very closely so it is not only the communication that is insecure.
Each message will carry a header that says, "Official Communication of the President of the United States intended for _______. If this is you, blink once, if not, blink twice."
I trust his Blackberry emails will be made public on a monthly basis. He himself said his new government will be transparent.
It’s his portable Tele-Prompter.
Yup. Another dhimmicrat who thinks that security rules are for “everyone else”.
All animals are equal - but some animals are more equal.
Gads, dhimmis are so, so simple and transparent.
Actually though, the blackberry issue is one of document storage. A voice is forever lost into the air. A Blackberry message is forever stored digitally, and cannot legally be erased. It is available for Discovery (in the legal definition - It can be read by anyone filing a Discovery request). The One is opening himself to years of litigation for this.
Five years after Zero leaves office, those records can be viewed through the Freedom of Information Act.
It was Blackberry text messages that brought down the Mayor of Detroit Kwame Kirtpactrick. Be careful what you wish for, Barry...
How will his physical location NOT be trackable to ten feet by foreign intelligence services and others?
0’s crackberry will be his undoing. That thing should be hacked within the month. I just hope the hackers wait longer than the Blago prosecutors before spilling the beans.
He didn't really say that, did he?
Yeah it was part of his speech. I think he was eluding to one of Pauls writings in the gosples. Too bad he never grew up.
“How will his physical location NOT be trackable “
It will be. He is an idiot.
That’s what I was thinking -
this thing is his “brain”,
where he can ask Wright and Ayers what he should do on a constant basis.
He also called for a new era of responsibility,
which his followers correctly interpreted as
a new era of SOMEONE ELSE’S responsibility.
The Secret Service is probably extremely unhappy. All it takes is one intercepted message where Hussein discloses where he will be at a predictable point in time at a relatively unprotected place.
Translation: It almost never works.
Barrry will abandon it within a month.
Even without GPS, the way a cell phone gets incoming calls is the cell tower "pings" it, and it responds "yes, I'm in range of you and able to take incoming calls".
The way we got Pablo Escobar in Columbia was with a piece of equipment which pinged his cell phone and triangulated on his position based on its response transmission.
There is a reason why Presidents didn't carry cell phones.
I wonder if he also has a gameboy?
I heard that too. I wonder if they can turn that off or shield it? Otherwise, that is majorly dangerous.
He keeps it on on top his doodle pad and crayons in the right hand top desk drawer in the desk of the Oval Office.
His Wii is behind a wall panel.
He did look like a bewildered child at the signing of he Executive Orders yesterday. I thought it would be amusing, but it’s really rather scary. I prefer to have adults in positions of power.
Re: the picture in the article ... doesn’t this man ever sit up unless he has to! He’s constantly slumping or slouching. It’s such a lazy trait.
His stooges and flunkies who travel with him do. They can be triangulated
His stooges and flunkies who travel with him do. They can be triangulated
So much for secure communications. Let’s see if a new electronic security standard is published soon.
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