Obama Spotted With BlackBerry
On Thursday morning President Barack Obama was seen on White House grounds wearing a dark suit with a white collared shirt and blue tie, no overcoat, and a BlackBerry clipped to his belt, according to a pool report. He and First Lady Michelle Obama had recently returned to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue after visiting Sidwell Friends School in Bethesda, Md., where their youngest daughter, Sasha, attends. Obama isn't concealing his handheld, but a Feb. 2 edition of Newsweek points out that he isn't carrying around the same tool that everyone else is using.
"Instead, he'll get a new device specially equipped with superencrypting security software to ward off hackers. His address book will be limited to a small group of family, friends and senior staffers, all of whom must first receive a security briefing to get on the list. A special server will block emails from unapproved senders, and messages sent by the president will be encrypted so that they cannot be forwarded," according the magazine. The publication says a bigger security concern could be phishing or when an email sender tries to trick the recipient into thinking the message is from someone else. -- Winter Casey
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