Comments on: Why isn’t a Blackberry Secure Enough for Barack Obama? http://luxsci.com/blog/why-isnt-a-blackberry-secure-enough-for-barack-obama.html News, solutions and insider insight from LuxSci: provider of Secure Email and Web Security Thu, 08 Mar 2012 02:57:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=416 By: Kevin Chadwick http://luxsci.com/blog/why-isnt-a-blackberry-secure-enough-for-barack-obama.html/comment-page-1#comment-534 Kevin Chadwick Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:38:58 +0000 http://luxsci.com/blog/?p=724#comment-534 This is the first time I've seen anything that has reflected some of my long standing thoughts. It's time general public services take these possibilities more seriously too, instead of shirking there responsibilities or hiding and devastating deemed to be costly solutions and companies, because profiteering private companies are controlling the decisions. The end user device and capabilities are paramount. BES also depends on Microsoft servers which must be an appropriate staging post to plan/hide any attacks. This is the first time I’ve seen anything that has reflected some of my long standing thoughts. It’s time general public services take these possibilities more seriously too, instead of shirking there responsibilities or hiding and devastating deemed to be costly solutions and companies, because profiteering private companies are controlling the decisions. The end user device and capabilities are paramount.

BES also depends on Microsoft servers which must be an appropriate staging post to plan/hide any attacks.

]]> By: The Ultimate Guide to the Ultimate Blackberry (Obama’s) | Masters in Criminal Justice http://luxsci.com/blog/why-isnt-a-blackberry-secure-enough-for-barack-obama.html/comment-page-1#comment-286 The Ultimate Guide to the Ultimate Blackberry (Obama’s) | Masters in Criminal Justice Sat, 28 Feb 2009 04:16:02 +0000 http://luxsci.com/blog/?p=724#comment-286 [...] IT administrators: LuxSci FYI points out that although e-mails sent and received from Obama himself "can be encrypted in transit to and from the BlackBerry enterprise servers (BES), the messages themselves would still be saved in an insecure and unencrypted form on the server and when they were sent out into the Internet at large." The Secret Service would have to ensure that IT administrators working with Obama’s account had proper security clearance. [...] [...] IT administrators: LuxSci FYI points out that although e-mails sent and received from Obama himself "can be encrypted in transit to and from the BlackBerry enterprise servers (BES), the messages themselves would still be saved in an insecure and unencrypted form on the server and when they were sent out into the Internet at large." The Secret Service would have to ensure that IT administrators working with Obama’s account had proper security clearance. [...]

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