Obama’s Blackberry is no security threat

In the past week I’ve read a lot of stories about President-Elect Barack Obama possibly having to relinquish his BlackBerry come January 20 for a variety of reasons that are just plain dumb.

One concern is that all Obama’s writings will need to be stored under lock and key to satisfy the Presidential Records Act, which requires that all presidential correspondence be seared onto the official record. The other, more nonsensical argument is that his Blackberry could pose a security risk.

The argument is that hackers could break into his inbox and harvest data that’s potentially damaging to national security. Here there are reminders of when Paris Hilton’s cell phone was hacked, and when it was reported that a foreign entity had penetrated sensitive data on laptops in the campaigns of both Obama and Senator John McCain.

Read more @ computerworld.co.nz

What do you all think? I feel secure with my BlackBerry, especially since I always see the security tests passing on startup .