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Why can’t the most powerful person in the world keep his BlackBerry? Barack Obama, who will take the oath of office as president next week, has repeatedly acknowledged a strong attachment to his Verizon BlackBerry 8830 World Edition smartphone, aka the BarackBerry. But in an interview last week, Obama lamented that the Secret Service and his lawyers appeared to be winning the battle to deny him this electronic link to friends, family and news of the larger world. “I’m still clinging to my BlackBerry,” he said. “I don’t know that I’ll win.” No doubt millions of e-mail-addicted thumb jockeys can sympathize. But there are several compelling reasons to separate Obama from his beloved device. The first is security. Research in Motion, the Canadian company that makes the BlackBerry, boasts that its devices and network were designed from the bottom up to protect the data that passes through them. When companies (or the White House) install RIM servers on their internal e-mail networks, their employees’ BlackBerry messages are heavily encrypted before they are sent to one of RIM’s network operations centers and passed on to other devices or networks. This means that if someone were to intercept a message, it would be virtually impossible to unscramble the contents, RIM says. The FBI feels comfortable enough with the technology to give BlackBerrys to its employees, although it does not allow agents to transmit classified information over them. The National Security Agency, which is responsible for evaluating device security, said last week that nobody was available to discuss whether it had approved the use of BlackBerrys to send classified military information. But Obama would be an extraordinarily juicy target for hackers, spies and other snoops who could try to exploit any kind of error made in configuring the device or the White House BlackBerry server to read Obama’s e-mail. Bruce Schneier, an expert…
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