Obama is an interesting guy and I'm going to be watching the debates very closely before I make up my mind. Probably will vote for Bob Barr (Libertarian) but the jury is still out. Obama is certainly an articulate, energetic, people-oriented guy.
Insofar as the BlackBerry goes, it's for show. The day Colin Powell was appointed Secretary of State, the secret service took away his PDA. Gore use to carry around a PDA but that was for show too. The Feds aren't going to allow any one important to carry a device with top security info on it that could be lost or stolen.
Obama is an interesting guy and I'm going to be watching the debates very closely before I make up my mind. Probably will vote for Bob Barr (Libertarian) but the jury is still out. Obama is certainly an articulate, energetic, people-oriented guy.
Insofar as the BlackBerry goes, it's for show. The day Colin Powell was appointed Secretary of State, the secret service took away his PDA. Gore use to carry around a PDA but that was for show too. The Feds aren't going to allow any one important to carry a device with top security info on it that could be lost or stolen.
Isnt there a security issue with pdas w/ cameras?? I spoke with a customer once who said he couldnt have a camera phone because of his job. I felt bad for the poor guy.
If the President wants to carry a BlackBerry, I promise you, he will carry one. The President has the authority to declassify anything he wants. I would be surprised to learn different.
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If the President wants to carry a BlackBerry, I promise you, he will carry one. The President has the authority to declassify anything he wants. I would be surprised to learn different.
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There is no way. Not in a million years. And the issue is not what is classified or unclassified. The issue is top-secret data on a pocket-size device that could be dropped, misplaced, lost or stolen.
As I mentioned, the day Colin Powell reported for duty as Secretary of State, the Secret Service confiscated his PDA. Does anyone think the Secret Service would be less concerned about the President?
I'll take any bet from any CB member that the next president of the United States, whomever he may be, will never carry a BlackBerry.
There is no way. Not in a million years. And the issue is not what is classified or unclassified. The issue is top-secret data on a pocket-size device that could be dropped, misplaced, lost or stolen.
As I mentioned, the day Colin Powell reported for duty as Secretary of State, the Secret Service confiscated his PDA. Does anyone think the Secret Service would be less concerned about the President?
I'll take any bet from any CB member that the next president of the United States, whomever he may be, will never carry a BlackBerry.
I don't know a lot about high levels of government except that the president can do pretty much anything he wants - taking under advisement the concerns of his security detail. Government officials carry sensitive data on their laptops all the time. There was recently a case where the Commerce Secty. Was ordered to not take his laptop to China due to security concerns - there were suspisions that the Communist Chinese had tried to break into a government official's laptop on a previous trip. It was in all the newspapers. If they have stuff on computers, why not BBs - which don't really hold that many documents in their memories? Just saying....
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Isnt there a security issue with pdas w/ cameras?? I spoke with a customer once who said he couldnt have a camera phone because of his job. I felt bad for the poor guy.
I work for a not-for-profit that serves people with developmental disabilities, mostly in the group home setting. Cell phones were banned from work sites supposedly due to the camera function. All of the work sites cell phones are phones that don't have camera functions. Of course the highest elite C-suite employees have Treos, the top echelon is always exempt