[dba-Tech] Blackberries are safest?

Hi Jim,

When Obama first became president, he wasn't allowed to continue to use the
cellphone (a Blackberry) he used as a senator.  He insisted that he be able
to use one, and within a couple of months, one had been uniquely  and
heavily modified to have sufficient security to use as president's
cellphone.  Some other people he communicates with frequently have the same
heavily modified phone.

He is NOT using a cellphone that anyone can buy.  There is nothing about his
cellphone that could be used to assess the security capability of any other
phone, including a standard Blackberry.

Dan

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Subject: [dba-Tech] Blackberries are safest?

H All:

The US president can use a cell phone as long as it is a Blackberry. The
reasons sited for not using other market products is because of security,
lack of encryption and no single central control point. In these days of the
NSA who can you trust.

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/why-obama-cant-use-iphone,news-17949.html

Aside: The core to the Blackberry code, much like Apple used BSD, came from
version of UNIX called QNX. (It is also used by the local observatory.) 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QNX

Jim
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