Solving Obama’s BlackBerry Dilemma
CurtMonash writes “Much is being made of the deliberations as to whether President Obama will be able to keep using his beloved “BarackBerry.” As the NYTimes details, there are two major sets of objections: infosecurity and legal/records retention. Deven Coldeway of CrunchGear does a good job of showing that the technological infosecurity problems can be solved. And as I’ve noted elsewhere, the ‘Omigod, he left his Blackberry behind at dinner’ issue is absurd. Presidents are surrounded by attendants, Secret Service and otherwise. Somebody just has to be given the job of keeping track of the president’s personal communication device. As for the legal question of whether the president can afford to put things in writing that will likely be exposed by courts and archivists later — the answer to that surely depends on the subject matter or recipient. Email to his Chicago friends — why not? Anything he’d write to them would be necessarily non-secret anyway. Email to the Secretary of Defense? That might be a different matter.”
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