NSA-approved smartphones leaves Obama with some ugly choices
By Ross Miller 
posted Jan 13th 2009 6:33PM
posted Jan 13th 2009 6:33PM
posted Jan 13th 2009 6:33PM
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The price of being the president...
I just want to know if it can stop a bullet when its in your pocket
It can stop a train.
Only Chuck Norris can crack the code used in these machines, in fact, it is Chuck Norris in the processor.
Thing is. This piece of junk is approved in 2007, level of security could have been compromised in 2009. Plus, i find it shameful for a president to carry around such an ugly looking thing.
Maybe when Nobama fixes the economy the NSA will have more resources to design a less ugly phone....
THE PRESIDENT CAN COPY/PASTE and he has a REMOVABLE BATTERY ????
@Mobius_1: actually thats not true. The phone has Bruce Schneier's brain as the neural net. Chuck would be stuck having to brute force it, and his brute force attack would cause the universe to collapse on itself.
You made Jack Bauer cry.
Sorry for the reply... anyhoo,
FUGLY!!!!
Its trying to choose the lesser of to evils...
Most people won't get your comment.
i did, i just didn't get the grammar
Hmm, i can't think of a better paraphrase that doesn't sound awkward.
to too two all sound the same and include two of the same letters to be honest I think its the languages fault not his I too get the three confused
No need to paraphrase, just make sure to differentiate between to and to. They are to different words and sometimes it's to hard to tell what someone's saying if they use the wrong one. See?
"It's like trying to chose the lesser of two evils." is that better?
I understood it fine the first time ... just people get to be all spelling/grammar nazi about stuff. I agree with the intent of your post though. Looking at outdated looking electronics sometimes really gives me a sad feeling inside, I think they're both evil.
@AutumnBringer
You do realize that you put "to and to"....
So for further clarification, two and two = four
or
I think I need TO get a beer or TWO....or twelve...
@AutumnBringer: You mean the type of grammar Nazis that would point out the error in the headline?
@kal I could use a beer TOO.
"...if given the choice, we'd probably choose cellphone over country..."
You would most probably fail the security clearance.
Ironically enough, I don't think that elected officials as high up as the President need something like a security clearance.
@wicketphoenix:
Because we know that presidents are SO free from corruption. It's not like they're both human AND politicians. [/sarcasm]
Judging by the company he keeps, Obama believes it too.
At least he can get some cool cases on it, right?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
I'd choose neither over one of those. He doesn't need back problems from toting those things around on top of it. They need to get something a little less... 90s.
...and they're surprised he's resisting?!
Oooh, sexy!
He will replace the blackberry by a personal secretary. No need of a phone when you just have to dictate whenever you want!
I wish I had a personal secretary to dic...tate... to.
pretty sure your aim is sarcasm there but in case: I'm pretty sure Senators have more than one secretary. Maybe they can get Japan to come up with a robot secretary that will receive emails for you as well as take your dictations - then we might have a solution.
The robot secretary should have a cigar holder too.
Think about it.
The L-3 is apparently still in development.
Yeah, they probably hired a bunch of devs from Latvia on H1B visas to finish up the code and test the security...
"Hey NSA, any chance we can get something a bit sexier on the approval list?"
No.
lol @ america being the 'leader of the free world'
The richest country in the world cannot even provide its citizens with free health care !! Maybe Mr Obama should tackle that first.
There is no such thing a a free lunch.
Free health care in a myth. It is really taxpayer funded health care.
I doubt we're the richest in the world. We're in debt to like every country esp China.
Stop being so ignorant. Dnorris is right, the money would come from somewhere, and thats the taxes. No one wants your ignorant comments here, so grow up.
Your statement is ironic. We are the richest country in the world because we don't provide everyone with free health care. And while we are at it why not give everyone free houses, cars and vacations? I could certainly use those over health care at the moment.
lol @above... yeah you don't need it for the moment but let's talk when your pushing 80 or when you need chemotherapy for cancer which is, I'm afraid to say, more likely to happen in the United States then anywhere else in the world!
Oh, and knock-on-wood... hope you live a wonderful, long and healthy life!
well, here in america, we AMERICANS work and pay for our health care, unlike those chinese who pirate it, and those socialist europeans who believes that health care belongs to all
Give him a pre
Amen.
"and frankly, if given the choice, we'd probably choose cellphone over country."
You are quite the patriot.
Wow, a General Dynamics smartphone. Any phone made by a defense contractor seems pretty bad-ass to me.
I think thats what body armor is made of these days, stuffed with NSA approved smartphones..
If you say so, I'd have to try it first I suppose. The phone that is, not a body armor test.
My mother works for AT&T and she sets up the General Dynamics phone at least once a week for government "contractors". They are very cool though HUGE. I would trade in my BB for it... it is the uber nerd phone. I think she said they run about $3200 bucks for one, are unlocked and work on TMOBILE or ATT networks.