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Obama told to break his Crackberry habit

Get off the net Mr President
Monday, 17 November 2008, 08:26

THE NEXT PRESIDENT of the breakaway colony of Virginia, Barack Obama has been told he will have to turn in his Crackberry.

Obama has been a famous Blackberry user throughout the presidential campaign, but thanks to the Presidential Records Act, everything he writes has to be officially archived.

This has lead to a bizarre state of play in the White House where the president is not even allowed a computer unless he wants his private emails seen by the great unwashed.

Obama wants to be the first president to have a laptop on his desk, but that might be as far as it goes.

According to AP, Obama is the second president to grapple with the idea of this self-imposed tech isolation. George Bush sent a message to 42 friends and relatives to explain that, since he did not want his private conversations looked at by those out to embarrass him, the only course of action is not to correspond in cyberspace.

Now where's the 'any' key? ยต

L'Inq
AP

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What's the problem

Route the Blackberry comms through an IMAP mail server. Back up the IMAP mail server.

Problem with Bush was his people either did not back up their mail server or they destroyed back ups.

posted by : hoohoo, 17 November 2008 Complain about this comment
First time for everything

This is the third President we've had since the internet/computer age arrived. I think it's time we allow the Big cheese to have some secure tech to use. Everyone that works below him gets secure tech. He should have the most secure tech of all.

posted by : Frank Black, 17 November 2008 Complain about this comment
They own his a$$

Oh well if it weren't a fun job there wouldn't have been all that interest from the one other applicant.

posted by : Grunchy, 17 November 2008 Complain about this comment
Does it really matter?

Given the amount of correspondence lost by the Bush crowd (either due to incompetence or deliberate obstruction), does it really matter if Obama has secret personal comms?

posted by : Steve, 17 November 2008 Complain about this comment
What will he do without Crackberry

He is going to be so bored, it is going to be like a 4 year jail sentance, poor man. I wonder if it was in his contract when he applied for the job?

posted by : Luke Johnson, 18 November 2008 Complain about this comment
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