Laptops are being made and have been made with Wireless NICs for years now they are by default turned off and the uses or admins have to turn it on if they want it on. The goverment probally can’t even order a laptop without wireless at this point but they can turn it off via policies and or locking the CMOS. Any company that uses Blackberries that there might be an issue for security actually uses a BES so they can control everything the device does and or has. They can actually kill a BB remotely, wipe all data from it and lock the BB and even display a reward message on the screen.

They are coming out with the add on security but guess what you have one more thing to carry around, I had a non bluetooth phone and used a bluetooth adaptor for the wireless ear piece and moved to the 7520 so I didn’t have to have the extra adapter to carry around. Now they make it so you have to carry one around I had just as much bluetooth with my i90 that was not and is not a bluetooth phone as I have with a 7520 that is a bluetooth phone. The only difference is I had to have a adaptor on the i90 to make it bluetooth, the 7520 is bluetooth by itself but doesn’t do anymore than the adaptor since that was just for voice bluetooth also.

I just hope if enough people complain they might enable it and it wont require buying yet another BB and only a software update.