Good. I hope it keeps him grounded in reality.

/GOBAMA!

Ok, conservatives. How is this going to bring about the end of life as we know it in America ?

C'mon... we're ready and waiting. Make it good and stupid.

Obama did not divulge just how he will overcome legal constraints, given the requirement of the post-Watergate Presidential Records Act of 1978 to keep a record of every White House communication.

If only the emails from his blackberry had to go through some kind of "server", which could keep a copy, instead of just wirelessly flying to the adressee's computer...

Mordant: C'mon... we're ready and waiting. Make it good and stupid.

I'm guessing they'll work the "Blackberry is made by Canadians" angle to link Obama to socialism/being French.

KyngNothing: Obama did not divulge just how he will overcome legal constraints, given the requirement of the post-Watergate Presidential Records Act of 1978 to keep a record of every White House communication.

If only the emails from his blackberry had to go through some kind of "server", which could keep a copy, instead of just wirelessly flying to the adressee's computer...

Aren't records of communication on a server susceptible to being mysteriously "lost" ?

KyngNothing: Obama did not divulge just how he will overcome legal constraints, given the requirement of the post-Watergate Presidential Records Act of 1978 to keep a record of every White House communication.

If only the emails from his blackberry had to go through some kind of "server", which could keep a copy, instead of just wirelessly flying to the adressee's computer...

The problem is keeping track of the emails, the problem is the emails themselves. Because any written communication must be kept they try to limit the Presidents written communications, so they can cover his ass in case he says something "bad".

The problem isn't keeping track of the emails,

/FTFM

The only trouble I see is that this does blur the line between official and personal communications, for subpoena type situations. Remember the heat Palin caught for conducting state business over personal yahoo accounts?

/just saying
//TF lawyers, what do you say?

Mordant: KyngNothing: Obama did not divulge just how he will overcome legal constraints, given the requirement of the post-Watergate Presidential Records Act of 1978 to keep a record of every White House communication.

If only the emails from his blackberry had to go through some kind of "server", which could keep a copy, instead of just wirelessly flying to the adressee's computer...

Aren't records of communication on a server susceptible to being mysteriously "lost" ?

Bush and Cheney can attest to that. It happens ALL THE TIME.

I thought he had an iPhone... meh.. if it is only a blackberry then who really cares.

Just as long as he's not typing on it during meetings.

Nothing like going over something critical and there's a douchebag typing and typing and when you're asking him questions and he's going "uh-huh uh-huh" and then asks you to repeat the entire goddamn scenario because he's responding to something he saw on someone's Facebook status.


Yeah, I'm talking to YOU you blackberry dickwads. Get your focus back on the subject and get your head out of your ass.

The mobile device dilemma may have inadvertently been solved on Friday, as Obama's Blackberry tumbled from his belt as he got out of his limousine and onto his plane in Washington.

The phone fell from his belt and onto the plane? Damn, that is a smart phone.

Snowflake Tubbybottom: The mobile device dilemma may have inadvertently been solved on Friday, as Obama's Blackberry tumbled from his belt as he got out of his limousine and onto his plane in Washington.

The phone fell from his belt and onto the plane? Damn, that is a smart phone.

reading comprehension isn't your thing, is it?

Mordant: How is this going to bring about the end of life as we know it in America ?

The TERRORISTS could HACK his mail you damn TERRORIST supporter!

Megain: Snowflake Tubbybottom: The mobile device dilemma may have inadvertently been solved on Friday, as Obama's Blackberry tumbled from his belt as he got out of his limousine and onto his plane in Washington.

The phone fell from his belt and onto the plane? Damn, that is a smart phone.

reading comprehension isn't your thing, is it?

Sarcasm comprehension isn't your thing, is it?

DarthBrooks: Nothing like going over something critical and there's a douchebag typing and typing and when you're asking him questions and he's going "uh-huh uh-huh" and then asks you to repeat the entire goddamn scenario because he's responding to something he saw on someone's Facebook status.

Yeah, I'm talking to YOU you blackberry dickwads. Get your focus back on the subject and get your head out of your ass.

I'm sorry, can you post that again?

/Sent from Blackberry

bdesign: The problem is keeping track of the emails, the problem is the emails themselves. Because any written communication must be kept they try to limit the Presidents written communications, so they can cover his ass in case he says something "bad".

seems to me that this is the opposite of what was intended by the law. not to prevent the president from communicating, but just to keep a record of it.

i like that his mentality is "i will communicate, i just will keep in mind you'll be reading it".

eddyatwork: Mordant: How is this going to bring about the end of life as we know it in America ?

The TERRORISTS could HACK his mail you damn TERRORIST supporter!

sad things is, I know you're joking, but i could see freepers making that argument for real.

Mordant: Aren't records of communication on a server susceptible to being mysteriously "lost" ?

Actually they are much more difficult for Sandy Berger to shove down his pants, therefore probably much safer.

Nor did he say how he would persuade his Secret Service protectors that the Blackberry does not pose a security risk, for instance if it is hacked over the air.

The Secret Service can arrange for their jammers to keep it offline.

Man, Lindsey is looking pretty battered in that pic. So few years, so many miles.

I forget where I saw this story earlier this week, but they called it a 'barackberry'.

ZAZ: Nor did he say how he would persuade his Secret Service protectors that the Blackberry does not pose a security risk, for instance if it is hacked over the air.

The Secret Service can arrange for their jammers to keep it offline.

So long as it's not raspberry...

/obscure? Not on Fark.

He's keeping his crackberry so he can work cocaine deals?

Interviewed by CNN Friday, Obama said the smartphone was among the tools that he would use to stay in touch with real Americans and avoid becoming trapped inside the presidential "bubble."

So does that mean he's gonna give out his cell number to everybody? Or maybe just his PIN number and sit on messenger all day long?

Meatzilla: NEWSFLASH!

[AP] January 21, 2009

-President Barack Hussein Obama's personal Blackberry device was
hacked by an underground hacker group. The information from
President Obama's Blackberry was then released on the internet.

In addition to the United States Nuclear Missile launch codes,
home addresses and phone numbers of all American citizens in
witness protection programs, and the phone numbers of various
Hollywood celebrity groupies, pictures were released as well.

The Secret Service and the FBI are hot on the trail of the
hackers according to an anonymous source not authorized to
discuss the investigation.

I LOL'd.

Seriously though, even though there are security concerns involved in keeping the blackberry, I'm glad he's keeping connection to the outside world. The more alternate sources of information he has, the better.

/We'll probably find out the President is a /b/tard or something strange

rynthetyn: Meatzilla: NEWSFLASH!

[AP] January 21, 2009

-President Barack Hussein Obama's personal Blackberry device was
hacked by an underground hacker group. The information from
President Obama's Blackberry was then released on the internet.

In addition to the United States Nuclear Missile launch codes,
home addresses and phone numbers of all American citizens in
witness protection programs, and the phone numbers of various
Hollywood celebrity groupies, pictures were released as well.

The Secret Service and the FBI are hot on the trail of the
hackers according to an anonymous source not authorized to
discuss the investigation.

I LOL'd.

Seriously though, even though there are security concerns involved in keeping the blackberry, I'm glad he's keeping connection to the outside world. The more alternate sources of information he has, the better.

/We'll probably find out the President is a /b/tard or something strange

BARACK OBAMA: FIRST FURRY PRESIDENT

Speaking as a military intelligence and security type, my biggest concern would be if he was using it for official business. BlackBerrys not only can be activated remotely, but emails between the device and the email server are sent as clear text. I don't know if there's a program, either first- or third-party, to encrypt BlackBerry emails, but if there is, I would still be concerned if Obama was using it to conduct official business.

Now, that being said, FOX News interviewed someone from the National Archives, who have responsibility to record Presidential messages under the Presidential Records Act. (I forget who it was, as the page is refusing to load, so I'm getting the URL from my browsing history.) At any rate, purely personal messages would not fall under the Act and would not need to be archived. So if Obama wants to keep it, and agrees to restrictions and cautions on how and where he uses it that all other federal employees have (i.e., can't have it around classified material or in sensitive areas), more power to him.

PizzaJedi81: ZAZ: Nor did he say how he would persuade his Secret Service protectors that the Blackberry does not pose a security risk, for instance if it is hacked over the air.

The Secret Service can arrange for their jammers to keep it offline.

So long as it's not raspberry...

/obscure? Not on Fark.

And there is only one man who would DARE give him a raspberry...

/Obscurity, she is meaningless on Fark.

rynthetyn: I'm glad he's keeping connection to the outside world

Presidents don't have internet access in the white house? I know email is a no-no, but no internet at all?

/asking, don't know.

"I think we're going to be able to hang on to one of these. My working assumption, and this is not new, is that anything I write on an email could end up being on CNN," he said.

The same CNN that was so pro-Hillary during the primaries?

He does have a good point!

7of7: Mordant: C'mon... we're ready and waiting. Make it good and stupid.

I'm guessing they'll work the "Blackberry is made by Canadians" angle to link Obama to socialism/being French.

So is the Nortel telephone on his desk, as well as the ones throughout the capital building

Blackberry = Internet porn in the bathroom... Bill hooked-up Obama with all the sneaky spots in the oval office you can rub one out without getting caught.

The big issue is that, since Obama is a definite and admitted BlackBerry addict, the "he won't send any classified messages" claim isn't very credible. I know a lot of BB nuts, and they have a bad tendency to send anything that comes into their heads. As POTUS, pretty much everything he does during the day can have security implications - he hasn't learned this yet, but he needs to.

Even if he manages to keep really tight information security by not ever managing to send any sensitive messages, the fact that he'll be carrying a single known device sending and receiving 24/7 is a real nightmare for most operational security folks. Best practice is to have several different devices, with unreleased or obscured addresses, and rotate among them in a random pattern (or use a device no more than a few hours and never use it again).

You can set up non-RIM BlackBerry servers for better security (with encryption thrown in), but it's a pain to access the wider BB system if you do.

why doesn't he just uses one of these?

L-3 Guardian® SME PED - Secure Wireless Handheld Smartphone (new window)

MmmCrime: 7of7: Mordant: C'mon... we're ready and waiting. Make it good and stupid.

I'm guessing they'll work the "Blackberry is made by Canadians" angle to link Obama to socialism/being French.

So is the Nortel telephone on his desk, as well as the ones throughout the capital building

OMG teh Canadian terrorists will fill his office with gravy and cheese curd covered french fries!

I can't believe that all of you think the main problem is what messages are sent from the blackberry.

The reason it's a security risk is because you can effectively triangulate someone's position using their cell phone signal. It was mandated that, in order to use E911, you had to be able to use a cellphone's signal to locate the user within a 300 foot radius. The secret service doesn't want you to know where the POTUS is. If someone is planning to do something bad to Obama, they could hack the cell network and find out where he is with pretty good accuracy in order to plan an attack.

Not only that, but Obama is a pretty savvy user, so he's most likely going to want the latest and greatest phone. One with GPS capabilities. And then, you'll be able to get even closer to him.

At least they did not ask him to surrender his watermelon.

Isn't Obama a bastard? Technically I mean, technically. But by defition, isn't he a bastard?

/That bastard!!

Mordant: Ok, conservatives. How is this going to bring about the end of life as we know it in America ?

C'mon... we're ready and waiting. Make it good and stupid.

Blackberry = fruit = fruity = gay = San Francisco values = Nancy Pelosi's shadow government = ??? = Osama Bin Laden.

They'll get there, somehow.

Obama : Going 2 meeting brb
Michelle: K TTYL
Obama : OMG we r invading iserale!
Michelle: What when?
Michelle: OMG was joe there?!
Obama : Thrsdy or fri i forgot
Obama : Yeah that mthrfkrs crazy he spit on hilldog
Michelle: RoLFCOPTER btw did you see stupid bush took all the o's on teh keyboards?
Obama : Lulz fag.

tacos813: Obama : Going 2 meeting brb
Michelle: K TTYL
Obama : OMG we r invading iserale!
Michelle: What when?
Michelle: OMG was joe there?!
Obama : Thrsdy or fri i forgot
Obama : Yeah that mthrfkrs crazy he spit on hilldog
Michelle: RoLFCOPTER btw did you see stupid bush took all the o's on teh keyboards?
Obama : Lulz fag.

I lol'd

His flight records got hacked during the primary campaign. I think clinging to the blackberry isn't a smart risk.

Mordant: Ok, conservatives. How is this going to bring about the end of life as we know it in America ?

C'mon... we're ready and waiting. Make it good and stupid.

You're keeping it good and stupid enough as is.

Could any blackberry user please explain why (s)he is using a blackberry ?

I've been doing some programming for blackberries lately and they are simply horrible. The user interface looks like shiat (the Windows 3.1 UI design team would be ashamed), the interaction with the device sucks ass (touch screen on the BB storm is very annoying, other devices have keys that are just too small), the device 'freezes' from time to time (shows an hourglass but remains unresponsive for 10-20 seconds), the build quality is crap (gaps around connectors, cheap plastic feel), developing software for them is hell (non-descriptive error messages, non-standard file formats, and general weirdness).

Of all the phone's I've used and developed for (and that's a *lot*) these are simply the very worst devices I've ever encountered. So: please explain to me, WHY ?

I think clinging to the blackberry isn't a smart risk.

If the Secret Service reacts by forcing end to end encryption on an industry for security, Obama will have done something good for the world.

But I don't think that will happen.

Sure, how else is he going to keep in touch with his handlers in Mecca?

Mordant: KyngNothing: Obama did not divulge just how he will overcome legal constraints, given the requirement of the post-Watergate Presidential Records Act of 1978 to keep a record of every White House communication.

If only the emails from his blackberry had to go through some kind of "server", which could keep a copy, instead of just wirelessly flying to the adressee's computer...

Aren't records of communication on a server susceptible to being mysteriously "lost" ?

Do you even know what you're complaining about? Because you sound confused.

BorgDrone: So: please explain to me, WHY ?

Three words: Blackberry Entreprise Server.

Soem people think that getting your e-mails and calendar wherever you are is of the utmost importance.

/Not in that group.

Flab: BorgDrone: So: please explain to me, WHY ?

Three words: Blackberry Entreprise Server.

Soem people think that getting your e-mails and calendar wherever you are is of the utmost importance.

Uhhmm.. almost ANY phone can do that.