Ladies & Gentlemen, The President of the “new” United States.
Is Mr Obama a geek? or just a 21 century citizen?. Why can’t he use his cellphone anymore?, Is this a matter of National Security or just there’s not a safe way to call yet?
Two weeks ago, New York Times reported about Obama´s love of Blackberry. Next January, once he become the President of the United States of America, he will have to put an end to this romance. Why? USA Security Agencies don’t trust Blackberry system.
“For years, like legions of other professionals, Mr. Obama has been all but addicted to his BlackBerry. The device has rarely been far from his side — on most days, it was fastened to his belt — to provide a singular conduit to the outside world as the bubble around him grew tighter and tighter throughout his campaign.”
If you remember, In UK the BBC admitted that it had been forced to suspend its Blackberry email service after senior executives reported portions of other people’s electronic conversations appearing in their own messages.
In France, French ministerial workers was banned from using BlackBerries by the General Secretariat for National Defence (SGDN), responsible for French national security. RIM issued a strong defense of its network, claiming Blackberry’s security mechanisms – AES 256 – as “the strongest commercial cryptography available to any vendor in the world”.
Even Indian Goverment put pressure on RIM to provide security agencies with a way around its encryption mechanism. They demanded either a “master key” into data and e-mails sent from the company’s BlackBerry devices or making RIM servers able to be monitored by Indian security agencies.
The source of these problems is the transport and delivery mechanism used by Blackberry. In order to make Blackberry´s Push service work, RIM integrates his servers with carriers. This way, mails are sent through Blackberry servers placed on UK and USA before you receive them. If you were responsible of your country’s national or presidential security, Would you trust a system working that way?
So, what can Obama do?
What does Obama need?
You will find the answer in this blog very soon!
