Microsoft: Mr. President, You ain’t secured with Blackberry

31 January, 2009 Posted by SolSie As Blackberry, Mobile Phone, News (2) Comment

imageAfter several back and forth information and misinformation running all over the Web, at a press conference Thursday, the Press secretary said the President will keep his BlackBerry “to stay in touch with senior staff and a small group of personal friends in a way that use will be limited and that the security is enhanced.” Microsoft, however, has questioned the wisdom of the president relying on a device whose maker is based in Canada. “You would be sending your data outside the country,” says Randy Siegel, a Microsoft enterprise mobile strategist who works on federal government projects. “We wouldn’t want the casual musings or official communications of the most important person in the world being intercepted by others.”   [Read the WSJ article]

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SolSie
Twitter: solsie
January 31, 2009

It was a great state of confusion until last Thursday’s press conference. Of course we owe you an apology! :-)

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