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NSA possibly fortifies Obama's beloved BlackBerry with encryption
Kevin Spiess - Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 | 12:07PM (PT) 0 Favourites (0)


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Many a news story has centered on President Obama's love for his BlackBerry. As many Neoseeker readers know, once you get attached to a particular device, it is hard to give it up.

The security-conscious folks in the White House however, thought relying on BlackBerry too much would be a weakness in security protocol, and said to the press that'd they'd have to ply Obama's BlackBerry away. But now that Obama has achieved the presidency, a compromise has been reached. An unnamed government agency (the NSA seems like the best guess) was tasked with applying a layer of encryption onto the presidential BlackBerry.  

Although it seems Obama will not be holding any nuke codes, or shuffling any UFO case files, through his BlackBerry. Instead it will only be used for personal communications, and data marked no higher than the SECRET level of clearance -- which, in the hierarchy of governmental secrecy, is just about the lowest level of security classification.  

It is possible that the NSA fitted President Obama with something with a little more encryptive horsepower -- such as the Sectera's Edge made by General Dynamics (pictured above) -- but the White House is being tight-lipped on this topic, for obvious and good reason.

  • 0 thumbs!
    THM since Jan 2008 | Jan 23, 09
    Why doesn't he use Nokia?
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    Jarhead255 since Sep 2008 | Jan 23, 09
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    Epic Fail Guy since Jun 2008 | Jan 23, 09
    Congratulations Jarhead255!
    You have made the dumbest post on Neoseeker.com!
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