Obama Still Clinging to his Blackberry

I was clinging to guns and religions, but now Im clinging to hope and change, and my Obama coffee mug.

I know how he feels, It would be difficult for the majority or us to not have our blackberry, that we have gotten accustomed to..WE NEVER LEAVE HOME WITHOUT IT.

“Pres.elect Obama is still “clinging” to his blackberry…… but not too much!”
Gosh! ABC news reporters you are now doing the policing work. It sounds a bit funny to report on these news which are not beneficial to people.
Leave it with Securities, they will sort it out!

my god it’s a phone!!!!!!!!!!

He can’t keep this one because cell phone calls and e-mail can be intercepted. They will give him a new one that is able to keep that from happening and able to transmit top secret info safely.

Poor baby! Give it to me, I’ll run over it with my car and that takes care of that.

I don’t blame Obama, I would not be willing to give up my phone if I became president either. The secret service should still monitor it though.

He shouldn’t of ran for president, if he couldn’t accept the change.

“So, what exactly are these legal problems with carrying a blackberry? I keep hearing people say that, but what is it? ”
RIM’s NOC is in Canada and is not secure.
Its a security issue to have the President’s messages intercepted, monitored and possibly spoofed.

LOL… Good one! (Seekingtruth) This is too funny!

Childish.

Shay: you are right…these same people complaining didn’t complain when Bush sent thousands to die in Iraq, ignored Katrina, blew our deficit from a surplus to a deficit of trillions, put our economy in shambles….it really makes you wonder, doesn’t it? Guess they are the same people who sent Ken Star after Clinton for an indescretion yet no one has investigated Bush and company for all the troops killed, and the huge deficit and mess they left behind!!!

Who cares lots of Americans have freaking Blackberry’s?
He is the president of the United States he deserves the best.

The reason they don’t want him using it is because all of the emails and text messages he would send from it would be recorded and put out for public view after his presidency. That is why none of the presidents have used email since its existence.

Ice Cream & The Election
Excellent analogy!
From a teacher in the Nashville area.
Who worries about “the cow” when it is all about the “Ice Cream?
The most eye-opening civics lesson I ever had was while teaching third grade this year.
The presidential election was heating up and some of the children showed an interest.
I decided we would have an election for a class president.
We would choose our nominees. They would make a campaign speech and the class would vote.
To simplify the process, candidates were nominated by other class members.
We discussed what kinds of characteristics these students should have.
We got many nominations and from those, Jamie and Olivia were picked to run for the top spot.
The class had done a great job in their selections.
Both candidates were good kids. I thought Jamie might have an advantage because he got lots of parental support. I had never seen Olivia’s mother.
The day arrived when they were to make their speeches Jamie went first.
He had specific ideas about how to make our class a better place. He ended by promising to do his very best.
Everyone applauded. He sat down and Olivia came to the podium. Her speech was concise.
She said, “If you will vote for me, I will give you ice cream.” She sat down.
The class went wild. “Yes! Yes! We want ice cream.” She surely could say more. She did not have to.
A discussion followed. How did she plan to pay for the ice cream? She wasn’t sure.
Would her parents buy it or would the class pay for it? She didn’t know.
The class really didn’t care. All they were thinking about was ice cream.
Jamie was forgotten.
Olivia won by a landslide.
Every time Barack Obama opened his mouth he offered ice cream and fifty-two percent of the people reacted like nine year olds. They want ice cream.
The other forty-eight percent of us know we’re going to have to feed the cow and clean up the mess.

Anyone carrying a cell phone or Blackberry can be tracked easily. Remember the movie “Independence Day”. An assasin with an RPG and a tracker could simply triangulate which room where the Blackberry is and blast the room. End of the Blackberry and everyone next to it. The Blackberry has to go.

-for all of you misguided liberals.
Enough of katrina, just where was your democrat mayor and governor. — The Posse Comitatus Act passed by Congress in 1878 prevents a president from sending federal troops to a state without the governor’s consent.
The Democrat governor of Louisiana, refused to cooperate with President Bush when the president asked for her consent to begin a mandatory evacuation four days before the storm.
The Democrats in the Louisiana homeland security office also refused to let the Red Cross bring truckloads of food, water and supplies to the Superdome.
Since 1980, Louisiana emergency personnel knew that the levees in New Orleans would not withstand a category 3 or 4 hurricane. Yet, the Democrats in Congress filibustered President Bush’s energy bill which was introduced in 2001 and contained $540 million for repairing the levees in New Orleans.”
“To their eternal shame, Democrats used the tragedy caused by Hurricane Katrina for their own partisan political gain.
While criticizing President Bush, Democrats turned a blind eye to the failures of the Democrats running the city of New Orleans and the state of Louisiana.
The black Democrat officials in New Orleans did not execute the emergency evacuation plan and allowed over 1,000 school buses and city transit buses to stay in parking lots and become ruined by the flood.”
MERCI- Is their truth 7:09 – As a citizen of NOLA, I am sick of explaining the facts concerning Katrina. For the haters, if you don’t live in the swamp, ****! posted by: LA Denise.
You are welcome LA Denise !- I am so tired of the sheep not searching for the truth. They just regurgitate what they hear from the MSM, and their authoritarian counterparts. The Truth is out there, They just have to work for it. OH! LOL, It just hit me, they would have to “WORK”, how silly am I ? “They” would rather be spoon fed the punitive liberal propaganda, than work for and seek the truth!

HH…well said.
Ice Cream and The Election:
The third graders sure said it. The people that voted for “change” were no
smarter than third graders. Thanks for sharing that: it was a good story. Lots of folks should take a lesson from it. But, you can’ educate stupid.

Can’t terrorists use the emission from the phone as a sensor for a sort of “heat sensored rocket” or weapon. They will always know where he is. If keeping in touch with his friends is more important than protecting his life, what can you say? I don’t think that Obama is yet aware of the gravity of his position as President of the U.S. He seems to be all about the celibracy. As Predsident he is required to keep himself and us safe. But, hey if he wants his Blackberry….

hey…. President-Elect Obama is just doing his part for the economy!
to monitor the blacberry – the secret service will need acess to the Blackberry servers. that will be more accounts and , i am sure, a large fee paid to teh company for the unlimited acess to the server network.
To be sure the signals are not intercepted, threre will need to be a LARGE team of specilists to visit and ‘Control” all the networks, and avoid slipping of data.
how many people will have high paying technical jobs. Just what hte country needs!
Pardon me – i gotta clean up after the cow

I love naysayers. These people moan about old age on their birthdays, and always say it’s gonna rain when you invite them to the beach. They want a new president to fail even when the country is trouble and needs positive change more than ever. You can count on them on these message boards to bring on the crazy.

Doesn’t matter what he is sending or not sending—-email, text or voice. The point is, unless the unit is completely powered off, the unit’s exact location can be determined using multiple cell towers. To receive, the cell phone must be in communication with a nearby cell tower so it sends keepalives every so often to do so—even when not texting, emailing or on a call. That closet cell tower then updates other cell towers so that future communications (wherever they may come from) ultimately get to the destination—the cell phone.

I like Obama. I like having a President from my own generation (nice change!) And a President who is curious about the world and eager to stay in touch.
Happy days are here again.

I guess rules don’t apply to him.

Steve, how naive are you? OF COURSE we own the man now that he’s president. He is the leader of the free world and it’s our tax dollars that not only pay his salary but also that will be used to bail out all these banks and companies. Yes, he is a human being, but he is now a human being who is POTUS. His life and his family now come second to the rest of the world for the next four years (or for however long it takes the American people to realize they’ve been duped and impeach him.) As far as the auto industry bailout, I’d have put a stipulation on the “loans” that the only way they got the money was if they brought all the outsourced jobs back to this country. When they outsourced to lower pay countries, did they lower their prices? Nope, not one thin red cent. If the American taxpayers money is good enough to bail them out, the American taxpayers should be good enough to work for them.

No surprise here. Personal gratification trumps reasonable security concerns. I’m sure we’ll be hearing of more indiscretions about BO.

Most of the opposition to the President-elect keeping his blackberry are old fuggy duddies who seem unable to comprehend that there must be ways, either existing or able to be implemented, that would allow a modern President to keep the best way he has or will have to keep “in touch” with the world outside of the White House “bubble”.

Gee, Nancy, if all presidential correspondence has to have a paper trail, what do you suppose happened to that trail of emails from the White House during the time Valerie Plame Wilson was getting outed? No archives there. Anyone who wants to throw dirt for the next 4 years should stop and look at the last 8 years.

If we can’t trust our president to have a phone, we shouldn’t have elected him!!!!Besides, with all the restrictions, the last administration still communicated underground!!!!He won’t say anything on his Blackberry to jeopardize the US safety!!!!We need an up-to-date president!!!!!!!!!!!

friends*

fOR GOODNESS SAKE WE HAVE MORE IMPORTANT THING TO WORRY ABOUT OTHER THAN OBAMA BLACKBERRY,PEOPLE GIVE IT A BRAKE.

okay if you don’t know what a black berry is then don’t comment on him being able to keep it. read what the nice people that do know what blackberrys are have to say!!!!! have you every heard of GPS well they include one to find your phone/email to give you your calls. those signals can be traced and location pinpointed. How would you like to have him visiting someplace you are or your children are at with the GPS in his pocket and a terrorist put a rocket right through the building. or hack into the system and get very important peoples email addresses to send fraudelent messages from the POTUS> I am suprised he is still carrying it. PS for anyone worrying about him not being able to call his wife and kids from it, POTUS WIFE and CHILDREN will not be keeping theirs either. THEY ALL GET SPECIAL PHONES.

Chicfrommich: yes, for his and his family’s safety, he has to give it up. It has a tracking system which any terrorist could easily utilize and send a rocket at detailed coordinates. Hopefully, he’ll understand for the children’s sake.

Ok seriously people.
You cannot ‘triangulate’ a GPS signal emitted from a particular Blackberry – its the same signal used by millions of Blackberrys and 10′s of millions mode Garmins and other devices. The GPS is NOT the method by which emails are sent. If Obama sends an email from his blackberry, the worst thing that might happen is him making a typo.
Rocket launched grenades from a GPS tracking unit to a BlackBerry….c’mon people….if you want to make a fool of yourself, do it in private…

Read a book, No they can not track the GPS device on board, But they can triagulate the location of the cell phone signal. Gee I think even the FCC can do that. But what the hell does he need that for anyway? To look cool?

I’ve never had a blackberry and have no desire or use for it in my life. Believe it or not, the world would survive very well without it. Plus, the “First Crackberry” is just too tempting a target for someone out there not to try messing with, just for the challenge of it. Obama should get a clue and unplug for 4 years.

Just think of his Blackberry as a 24 hour a day Teleprompter.

Reality check
Barack Obama now has one of the world’s largest responsibilities. The President of the United States.
Now for someone with such power and responsibility to the world, the United States, family and friends by using a commercially massed produced telephone is setting one’s self up for trouble.
I have a question.
Would you I told you on
September 10th 2001 that 2 commercial jets would fly into both of the World Trade Center’s and brings them down
Also one other plane would crash into the pentagon and another plane would attempt to crash into the White House
Would you believe me if I had told you after the terrorist attack:
We would go to war with Iraq bombing their infrastructure and cities killing innocent men, women and children in the process.
And Many of OUR son’s and daughters will never see their families and friends
And invade Afghanistan where more of our US soldiers will never live in the country they died for.
And the Billions of tax payers money to sponsor this.
I bet you wouldn’t believe me and thought I was a lunatic
It is this SIMPLE, The secret service gets paid to protect the president. That is what they focus on, so when they say “ditch the blackberry “I would dump the blackberry
The Secret Service knows what they are talking about, because that’s what they do best.
Here is an example of a hacker:
1. c0mrade — Miami
In 2000, a 16-year-old from Miami known on the Internet as “c0mrade” became the first juvenile to go to jail on federal computer-crime charges for hacking into NASA. The boy admitted to attacking a military computer network used by the DTRA (Defense Threat Reduction Agency) from Aug. 23, 1999 to Oct. 27, 1999. The youth installed a backdoor access on a server that intercepted more than 3,300 electronic messages to and from DTRA staff. The backdoor also accessed at least 19 usernames and passwords of DTRA employees, including at least 10 usernames and passwords on military computers. The unnamed juvenile was sentenced to six months in a detention facility.
Imagine Software and communications engineers in a country like Russia with large amount of money to hack into a blackberry
Maybe we think they are not smart enough.

Be Afraid… Be Very Afraid
Any IT professional know that a blackberry is not secure
I have been an IT professional for 20 years and I have many stories from back when 14.400 modems 1st came out
Warez sites list all sorts of goodies… lots of credit card numbers, company server sites where I can store large files, as back then my PC only had 20 – 40 megs and a 5 ¼ floppy drive
I used to work for a Global leader outsourcing company in the IT industry and here is some stories,. It is not always the technology side but the human emotional side that gets you into stuff
Here are some examples where I use to work
- One very smart person (Smartguy) didn’t like this one particular co-worker. So as she would be working along on her computer then Smartguy would blue screen her computer that ticked her off thinking that her computer was faulty. He would show some people this and thought it was funny hearing her curse at the computer. Every time he blue screened her.
Smartguy went to far when he was able to hack into and read the presidents email.
He then showed up for work one morning and security did not allow him into his office. He was then met with his manager and escorted and banned from ever entering the building
- Another incident was a tape operator was a single guy wanting to date some co-workers, so he would access the motor vehicles to gather personal information about them.
- On a boring night shift the security guard showed me the president’s office and kitchen. He went into his fridge and we had leftover pheasant. ( It was one of the biggest oil companies)
- Another time is when we were short staffed and the company decided to load some work off the other office on the other side of the country.
The story goes like this. One of our clients was a big government financial institute. We had to sign an endless amount of security checks, finger prints, and criminal record checks. The Government institute was so locked down that anyone with no security clearance could only access of their servers if I was watching or monitoring them. I could not take my eye off any support person working on a server. However the workload was passed on to a person who had no security clearance. He could not access the government servers at night as we were 7X24.
So I gave him my password… Yes! I lent…gave him my password. He used all our passwords for over a month. I did change my password but he had hacked into the government sites figuring out my changed password (as I just change the last number of my password as it changers every 2 weeks and it is easy to keep track of) and worked all night using my password. I found out about this and brought it to management’s attention. Wow if the Government institute found out we would loose the contract and a lot of people would loose there jobs. I still have kept the email to him admitting to hacking my password.
In conclusion
These are only a few of my IT security stories and if you tell me a blackberry is secured I grin and say to myself you obviously this person dose not work in the IT support industry