Follow BeltwayBlips on Twitter
Obama Gets His $3,500 Blackberry
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
Ambinder points out that Barack Obama will get his fancy-shmancy Blackberry:
President Barack Obama is going to get his blackberry.
On Monday, a government agency that the Obama administration — but that is probably the National Security Agency — added to a standard blackberry a super-encryption package…. and Obama WILL be able to use it … still for routine and personal messages.
It’s not clear whether he yet has the device.
With few exceptions, government Blackberries aren’t designed ...
Obama Keeps His Blackberry
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire —
Marc Ambinder reports President Obama will get to use a Blackberry -- with a new "super-encryption package" -- for "routine and personal messages" to his friends and family. However, "it's not clear whether he yet has the device."
Keeping The BlackBerry, Ctd.
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... of the Blackberry, act as the delivery hub between email servers and cellular phone networks, and their servers are located in Waterloo, Ontario.
And I may remember this incorrectly, but I do not recall ever setting up or enabling encryption on the conversations between the Blackberry servers inside a private network, and Research In Motion. That would mean that all such correspondence travels "in the clear" and is readable as plain text.
It sounds like the Obama folks have thought of this. ...
Scritti Politti: January 21, 2009
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... Obama To Receive Elitist Email Device: Obama will keep his BlackBerry. Maybe an extra-special BlackBerry! As Marc Ambinder relates: "Perhaps the NSA and US telecommunications companies have created a special, more secure digital pathway for Obama's messages to travel on, one that would resist the inevitable penetration attempts by foreign governments." The single biggest reason for keeping the BlackBerry's upgrades under wraps is that if word leaks out, every little frakstain in this city will want one for themselves, and RIM will never ever hear the end of it. ...
Scritti Politti: January 21, 2009
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Obama To Receive Elitist Email Device: Obama will keep his BlackBerry. Maybe an extra-special BlackBerry! As Marc Ambinder relates: "Perhaps the NSA and US telecommunications companies have created a special, more secure digital pathway for Obama's messages to travel on, one that would resist the inevitable penetration attempts by foreign governments." The single biggest reason for keeping the BlackBerry's upgrades under wraps is that if word leaks out, every little frakstain in this city will want one for themselves, and RIM will never ever hear the end of it. ...
links for 2009-01-22
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog —
... (tags: timothy_geithner turbo_tax)
Obama Will Get His Blackberry - But is This Wise?
President Barack Obama is going to get his blackberry.
On Monday, a government agency that the Obama administration — but that is ...
ThinkFast: January 22, 2009
Think Progress —
... ” alternative that is “reportedly capable of encrypting top secret voice conversations and handling classified documents.” ...
Obama's BlackBerry: Encryption included
The Swamp —
... The Atlantic, which first reported this breaking Berry-news online, reports that whatever Obama uses - be it a customized BlackBerry or Berry look-alike -- it will be "heavily encrypted to deter information from winding up in the hands of hackers or others who would want to see harm come to him or to the United States. ...
Daily Digest: Through the Wormhole, Into the White House
techPresident —
... Here's the latest in the on-going "will he or won't he" saga involving Obama's beloved Blackberry. The Atlantic's Mark Ambinder has a post up suggesting that security provisions are being put into place that would make the President's emails super-duper hard to intercept or mimic. Computerworld's Matt Hamblen isn't so sure, writing that that sort of encryption would require that ...
The First Techie gets to keep his BlackBerry
Top of the Ticket —
... Now it looks like Obama will be allowed to keep something like a BlackBerry but the device, according to the Atlantic, will be "heavily encrypted" to protect his privacy. ...
