Mr. President gets a Barack Berry.

His old cell phones and BlackBerrys can Barack Obama does not keep, but there is hope for the professing communication addicts in the White House: The Barack Berry "- indestructible, tap-proof, encrypted language as text messages, and is similar to a BlackBerry.

 

General Dynamics
Hard smartphone Sectera: Heard on the equipment of the military and secret services

The fresh gekürten U.S. president Barack Obama is in the course of the past two years has managed a feat that is probably without precedent: In spite of the vortex around his person, despite extensive campaigning endlessly, he has managed to establish contact with the normal world to date. Obama, confirmed countless Zuarbeiter, supporters and other contact persons, had until recently not communicate, but communicated itself over the Web, cell phone, e-mail - on every available means.

From the perspective of hardworking helpers to the power apparatus of the White House running, add Obama's desire to communicate more than just a worst-case scenario. It is a security-political risk premium quality:

foreign powers could be via cell phone to determine the whereabouts of the President
malicious bloggers could Obama informal messages to PR disasters auswalzen
criminal or anti-cracker bug the phone to make
his e-mails could be intercepted
or a conduit for spyware are

All this would be bad enough, but in addition there are U.S. laws, which oblige every beep expressed a president be documented and archived. Bill Clinton did so in this respect, abstinence, and George W. Bush had the e-mail and ledges can ban: Too big a risk advisers appeared that sometime thoughtless abgefeuerten details from e-mail in complaints, investigations or impeachment of Congress could be evidence.

With Obama has the intelligence, security officers, consultants and strategists, however, one problem: He
wants to continue to communicate. For months
There was a debate about whether the U.S. president actually Obama and could prohibit a digital decreed celibacy.

Hope for Hope

The so now it seems to have prevailed. Obama's new phone, his BlackBerry replacement for the next few years, says the current U.S. media reports that
Sectera Edge and is a smartphone from forging the weapons of the U.S. defense company
General Dynamics.

The thing was described as "rugged smartphone" designed and developed as an extremely stable device for use under harsh conditions, for example in the military. It could Obama through the garden of the White House crawl if he wanted. He could throw it from the roof, into the tub dropped, but especially so he can make phone calls and e-mail without having to listen to him is: Since March 2008, the Sectera the blessing of the powerful electronic eavesdropper of the National Security Agency NSA.

If anyone knows how to crack electronic communications, overhears people, across all borders to monitor the data, then the cracks from Fort Meade. The surveillance and spying on the global electronic communications specialist service is considered the largest and best equipped of the U.S. Secret Service. If the NSA says it is also a device to transmit secret data to use, then this is a knighthood. The Sectera received in the form of an NSA certification.

Technically the Flachsmann based on a Palm Treo 750, but was strongly aufgebohrt. The smartphone can e-mail and Web, serves many types of network including HSDPA, UMTS and Edge, has Wi-Fi, and some less common features.

General Dynamics
Sectera Edge: Not quite, what a Palm Treo 750 is sold

Thus, the potential temperature between -23 and +75 degrees - and times when the temperature falls to -55 degrees, the battery will not even order. Holds 35 hours of standby time and also a conversation about three hours, if need be. Encrypted communication eats more resources to shorten the battery life by a third, and doubles the required storage volumes. Individuals reportedly be the model for Obama, but with a battery with increased capacity will be delivered.

Allegedly, the Barack version also has a free market in the completely unknown product, which could generate envy: a virus of the NSA made sure Internet Explorer. Because the software comes from inside Microsoft.

The Windows-based operating system synchronizes itself with the laptop, but it has a totally non-commercial application: An incoming and outgoing communications of any kind will be encrypted in real time.

As the only product of its kind, the Sectera at the push of a button between open and encrypted communications switch. The encryption level is not known, but it is of the highest class of the NSA Certification: This means a share for the transmission of high-quality information as secret.

Cheap is the fun of course not. Currently, based on the nickname "Barack Berry" baptized device for $ 3350 satte traded.