Re: I made Obama's BlackBerry

[Bruce Ediger <bediger () stratigery com>]

On Fri, 23 May 2014, Jeffrey Walton wrote:

> http://money.cnn.com/2014/05/22/technology/security/nsa-obama-blackberry/
>
> It was a rough day at the NSA in 2008 when President Obama asked for a
> smartphone.
        ....

Amusing and very relevant. I saw this yesterday:
<https://www.privacyinternational.org/blog/what-does-gchq-know-about-our-devices-that-we-dont>

Which is someone looking at specifically what GCHQ destroyed of "The
Guardian's" hardware which contained Snowden documents. The upshot is that GCHQ
destroyed more than just disk drives, they seem to have reduced very specific
chips to dust, leading to "Privacy International" questioning why.

Did the ex-NSA Blackberry hacker let something slip in that CNN article, or
is it just PR flak?

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