Why isn’t a Blackberry Secure Enough for Barack Obama?
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
As you may have heard, Barack Obama is tethered to his Blackberry. It’s great to have a highly technical President of the United States, but it is really shaking things up. All of the policies and procedures date back to times before PDAs and smart phones. Obama is really struggling to cling to the same technical edge in his day-to-day affairs that he has enjoyed to date. But the security team at the Oval Office has other plans.
No Blackberry for Obama!
Instead, he gets what is being dubbed the “BarackBerry” — a high security blackberry replacement. Why is the Blackberry (and similar devices) such a security concern?
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