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2009-01-19 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by tu3031 2009-01-19 11:38|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 AFP reporter -- a news article is a who, what, when and where. Just couldn't resist the adjective "unpopular" before Bush's name, could you?

Posted by Sherry 2009-01-19 13:32|| 2009-01-19 13:32|| Front Page Top

#2 Another opinion. With an interesting tidbit at the end...

Posted by tu3031 2009-01-19 13:39|| 2009-01-19 13:39|| Front Page Top

#3 somebody in Chicago can send me an email and say, 'What are you ~~doing~~ wearing?'

Posted by .5MT 2009-01-19 13:41|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net] 2009-01-19 13:41|| Front Page Top

#4 It is not only that people can read tyour traffic but also you have zero gurantees about who sent you a message:

eg:

From Norad:
Russian missiles are heading for New York.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2009-01-19 13:53|| 2009-01-19 13:53|| Front Page Top

#5 N! U!

Posted by .5MT 2009-01-19 13:58|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net] 2009-01-19 13:58|| Front Page Top

#6 I want to be able to have voices,

Some of us take medication to make the voices go away.

Posted by SteveS 2009-01-19 14:11|| 2009-01-19 14:11|| Front Page Top

#7 "If I'm doing something stupid, somebody in Chicago can send me an email and say, 'What are you doing?'

It would appear the United States Secret Service is already sending you the "stupid" message. Would you prefer it be sent from their Chicago field office?

Posted by Besoeker 2009-01-19 14:16|| 2009-01-19 14:16|| Front Page Top

#8 I don't particularly mind the voices, except the bastids can't harmonize worth a dang.

Srsly.

Posted by .5MT 2009-01-19 14:17|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net] 2009-01-19 14:17|| Front Page Top

#9 Obama said the smartphone was among the tools that he would use to stay in touch with real Americans

Why do I get the feeling that no 'real Americans' will have his number? Only commies and his handlers (like Ayers, and Ralm) will have a private (and secret) pipeline into his head.

There is a simple solution. Just post his number on the front page of every newspaper in the US. I guarantee he will go so much spam, viruses, and marriage proposals from SF guys that his blackberry will be absolutely useless.

Posted by CrazyFool 2009-01-19 15:42|| 2009-01-19 15:42|| Front Page Top

#10 I think a big reason for this is that Bambi needs to have contact with certain folks without having that contact in the official records. Whether it's his preacher, or Ayers, or 50 other people we know nothing about today, he wants to talk with people without having the existence of those conversations, let alone their contents, known.

Posted by Steve White 2009-01-19 15:59|| 2009-01-19 15:59|| Front Page Top

#11 Once he is sworn in those communications are official documents. That is why Bush stopped using email for personal communications. This could get interesting.

Posted by tipover 2009-01-19 16:16|| 2009-01-19 16:16|| Front Page Top

#12 Infosec and crypto is so...right wing and yukky! After tomorrow we're all open and progressive and stuff.

Posted by Cynicism Inc 2009-01-19 16:27|| 2009-01-19 16:27|| Front Page Top

#13 Only commies and his handlers (like Ayers, and Ralm) will have a private (and secret) pipeline into his head.

How much money would (for instance) it cost 3dc to render said pipe line no longer private and secret? I'm guessing less than $ 5 k. I'm also guessing that foreign intelligence agencies already have similar setups, sufficiently productized that they appear to be (and for the most part are) laptops with antennas sticking out one of the USB ports. They probably don't even need to be Line-of-sight to the President-elect/President, just in the same general area.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-01-19 17:42|| 2009-01-19 17:42|| Front Page Top

#14 Basically, he's living in a fools' paradise if he thinks anything he's doing on the thing is private.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-01-19 17:43|| 2009-01-19 17:43|| Front Page Top

#15 "Beloved Blackberry" > D *** NG IT, but only everyone has a Laptop, Blackberry, IPOD, etc. but me - WHY, MORIARITY, WHY!?

Is it true, has my beloved PAUL SIMON/ORVILLE BOW TIE MEMBERSHIP CARD LIED AND BETRAYED ME???

* AL BUNDY > IS IT TRUE. GOD, WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT YOU - ARE YOU A BIG FAT WOMAN???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2009-01-19 18:15|| 2009-01-19 18:15|| Front Page Top

#16 I suppose he thinks email is secure too.

Didn't they make a big pile if stink over Sarah Palin having a Yahoo email account?

Hey! Maybe he can use it to keep track of the NUCLEAR CODES! Thats the ticket!

Posted by CrazyFool 2009-01-19 18:27|| 2009-01-19 18:27|| Front Page Top

#17 Don't those things effectively broadcast your location?

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2009-01-19 19:21|| 2009-01-19 19:21|| Front Page Top

#18 Nothing like having an ~~Crackberry~~ addict for a president.

Hope the Secret Service is ready ~~and wearing vests~~ ....

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-01-19 19:24|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2009-01-19 19:24|| Front Page Top

#19 When it falls out your pocket and crashes its called a dingleberry.

Had the same concern as NS.

Posted by swksvolFF 2009-01-19 20:48|| 2009-01-19 20:48|| Front Page Top

#20 My money says Candian Intel alreay has every email he's ever sent or received.

Posted by Mike N. 2009-01-19 22:17|| 2009-01-19 22:17|| Front Page Top

#21 Obama's behaviour reminds me of Clinton's.

He doesn't care about security.

Problem is, Americans are going to pay for it.

With their lives.

Posted by Leroidavid">Leroidavid 2009-01-19 23:43|| 2009-01-19 23:43|| Front Page Top

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