Comments on: President Elect Barack Obama May Have To Give Up His BlackBerry

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Barack Obama May Get To Keep Has BlackBerry After All | RIMarkable — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:12:45 +0000

[...] Walters interview, President Elect Barack Obama hinted that he may get to keep his BlackBerry after all. WALTERS: How are you going to get along without your [...]

By: Gadgetsucker88

Gadgetsucker88 — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:35:24 +0000

Darn! That’s completely insane. He should be the first man on earth that needs mobile phone and Andrew is right, its not the cellphone but the network/transmission that has to be secured.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:53:43 +0000

Has a Blackberry ever been hacked? not the device, the transmission. I am pretty sure it is the most secure form of transmitting isn’t it?

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:43:52 +0000

He should totally have to give it up. Unless they put him on his own sat link network, he is not safe from cloning or tracking. Not to mention him losing it??? Tell him to stick to Gmail web

By: Thought

Thought — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:53:01 +0000

As an aside, isn’t it nice that we’re going to have a President who actually knows how to use technology… who actually is intelligent as well as intellectually curious…

By: Thought

Thought — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:49:30 +0000

I tend to agree with Robb; I think the issue is more of having a wireless device that is even theoretically trackable on the POTUS.

By: Richard Ward

Richard Ward — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:09:11 +0000

I think it’s complete bullshit.

He’s going to have to get rid of his BlackBerry so he can talk to some Secret Service agent, who in turn talks to some other security guy, who passes this information to some dumb fucker who then e-mails it to someone in the White House on his BlackBerry.

When the dumb shit down the line gets nabbed, it’s all over. Talk about homeland security.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:05:53 +0000

I sort of thought this was ridiculous until you said ‘lowjack’ – that makes tons of sense.
It is actually a really interesting story, he seems like the kind of guy that likes to be ‘in the loop’ all the time, so I can’t see himself cutting off the flow of info., it just isn’t practical. There has to be a solution to this.