Obama takes notes from Heston: “They’re going to pry it out of my hands”

My dad works for the government and his whole department received Blackberry Curves from Verizon a few months ago. Mind you he isn’t handling info as important as president, but still.

I’m just hoping this is an older picture and he atleast has a Curve now.

How ironic is it that Obama quoted the late pro-gun and NRA member, Mr. Charlton Heston?

Security reasons are not the reason he will have to give it up. It is because of partisan politics and the fear he may say something in an email that the other side can start impeachment proceedings.

Would he also like to receive the president’s daily briefing on his blackberry or in a digital format?

COME ON!

Everything has to be limited.

His closest advisors and his ENTIRE cabinet should be cut off from BBs as well.

If he’s put on a BES then all his traffic can be logged and printed out at any given time. PIN, SMS, Call Logs, Emails, etc. So why worry. Even though he’s the POTUS, he still doesn’t have the highest clearance and that’s for his own security. People would be surprised to hear who has the highest clearance available.

Have you all seen the “Black Barry” spoof commercial? Obama should hire Barry into the secret service and carry him around! LOL!

Read up on the technology before you make statements like this.

c’mon guys lets make educated statements. Let not bash Obama because !!YOU!! didnt want him as your president.. In my opinion i think they should let him keep it.. I mean if they can put a security preference for anything else out there what makes the BB any different. Sooner or later they are going to figure something out in order for him to have it..ya kno why????

HES THE PRESIDENT!!!! duhhh

Let me see. The same imbeciles buying up a ton of iPhones for government use because Fed doofuses think it’s cooler than a Blackberry in spite of the fact that the iPhone is a tremendous enterprise security risk are going to take away Hussein’s secure Blackberry?
Sounds exactly like the Federal Government.

I don’t see what the problem is. All government agencies use blackberries for secure transmissions of material, so security shouldn’t be an issue. Also, he shouldn’t be discussing classified matters on a regular phone anyway. Regarding the archiving issue, it’s a phone, just like the one he has in his office. Are his phone calls recorded and archived? Personally, I don’t know, but I am sure they could do the same with his blackberry conversations if they wanted too. Remember these are the days of warrentless wiretapping.
And as far as emailing and texting, these can be archived just as easily as they can from any other computer.

This is just typical bureaucratic complaining at actually having to deal with something new.

What law or tradition would you be referring to? I wonder what bill number I could look up speaking to Presidents and/or Blackberrys?

Reading these comments, I wonder if they are responding to the story above or venting on their opinion on the outcome of the election.

Stop acting like the Dems in 2000, take it like a man.

@Theta

AMEN!!

I think He should keep his BlackBerry.
Because from what I understand all info that is to be given to him is to be moderated. Which means it can be manipulated. Which means he makes decisions that others pre-approve for him. Which means that he is a figurehead and doesn’t know it.

well if anyone actually understood the way BB’s work, RIM absolutely can read your email if they wanted to.

every message you send goes throught the NOC in Waterloo RIM HQ. The packets are encrypted however the decryption key is sitting on the handheld and the BES server. About 5 lines of Java code could send your encrytpion keys on the BB to the RIM HQ. So they have your PIN, they have your payload and they could send the decryption key to themsleves if they wanted.

Presto your email, decrypted and readable. very trivial to do.

could and do are 2 very different things…could they , yes. do they? who knows?

go ERIK! 10-4 BUBBA!