shireen
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Mon Nov-17-08 11:48 PM
Original message |
why does Obama have to give up his Blackberry? |
|
I don't understand why the Secret Service is making him give it up. Is there a technical reason for it?
I can't live without my iPhone and laptop. If I don't have a connection to the internet, I feel lost.
|
DJ13
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Mon Nov-17-08 11:49 PM
Response to Original message |
1. Cellphones can be traced even when off |
HCE SuiGeneris
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Mon Nov-17-08 11:52 PM
Response to Original message |
2. He gets one of these... |
nadinbrzezinski
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Mon Nov-17-08 11:52 PM
Response to Original message |
3. partly security, partly the presidential records |
|
not that this stopped bush and company from destroying emails and all that you know
|
margotb822
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Mon Nov-17-08 11:53 PM
Response to Original message |
4. The president's emails are part of the record |
|
Remember how all of those Valerie Plame emails "disappeared?" Part of the question is how to keep his BB emails as part of the record.
|
redstate_democrat
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Mon Nov-17-08 11:56 PM
Response to Reply #4 |
5. Even private emails to family, etc? |
|
That's a huge invasion of privacy. I wouldn't want anyone 50 years from now reading my emails to my family members.
|
Posteritatis
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Nov-18-08 12:06 AM
Response to Reply #5 |
|
Every electron going from that thing to, well, anywhere would probably get intercepted by somebody for one reason or another.
The guy's going to be in the spotlight enough as is without Fox News surrounding all his relatives' houses with packet sniffers looking for something to misinterpret.
|
shireen
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Nov-18-08 12:44 AM
Response to Reply #7 |
8. wouldn't encryption protect personal emails? nt |
Posteritatis
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Nov-18-08 12:54 AM
Response to Reply #8 |
9. Even encryption's fallible |
|
Couple that with the fact that everyone he emails would have to have the key to decrypt it (and know how to do that!) and access to it would probably become an open secret to an obsessed-enough reporter soon enough.
You'd also have the potential issue in that case of the president sending encrypted messages out of the White House, which would open up all sorts of cans.
|
nadinbrzezinski
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Nov-18-08 01:06 AM
Response to Reply #5 |
10. Yes, his private life stopped the moment he won the election |
|
it is part of the package
Not that email survives the way I don't know, diaries do
|
whistler162
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Nov-18-08 01:27 AM
Response to Reply #5 |
11. The best recent example of why everything has to go through |
|
and be retained by the White House and government is Gov. Sarah Palin and her multiple email accounts that may or mayn't have emails that may or mayn't be Alaskan government related.
More simply put. Send everything to government archives so the Republicans can't whine and kwetch!
|
dysfunctional press
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Nov-18-08 01:53 AM
Response to Reply #5 |
13. i don't think that private/family emails would be part of the record. |
MrModerate
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Mon Nov-17-08 11:57 PM
Response to Original message |
6. Being President really *is* different . . . n/t |
bridgit
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Nov-18-08 01:34 AM
Response to Original message |
12. no more time to fiddle with it plus someone else will be performing those chores... |
ConsAreLiars
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Nov-18-08 03:56 AM
Response to Original message |
14. Both the US and Israel have the tech needed to use cellphone signals for targetted murders. |
|
And do so as a matter of routine. The SS probably thinks that having a bulls eye target painted on Obama will make their job a bit harder.
|
Blarch
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Nov-18-08 07:09 AM
Response to Original message |
15. He doesn't need to get rid of it. |
|
Bush doesn't believe in the Presidential records act...and neither does Obama, he will prove this when he doesn't prosecute Bush for violation such laws.
|
DU
AdBot (1000+ posts) |
Thu Apr 18th 2024, 03:53 AM
Response to Original message |