FBI Recovers WhatsApp, Signal Data Stored on Michael Cohen’s BlackBerry

Re:FBI Recovers WhatsApp, Signal Data Stored on Michael Cohe... by los_angeles on Saturday June 16, 2018 @03:54AM (#17326489)

Which makes complete sense. He is the most powerful individual in a country of 300+ million people. If he needs a certain thing to keep him operating at peak efficiency and focus, he gets that thing. Period. Unless it violates national security.

Being elected president is not the time to learn a new technology suite. Hopefully most presidents have better things to do with their time than that.

At that level your people have people who have people to deal with that kind of minutiae.

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Re:FBI Recovers WhatsApp, Signal Data Stored on Michael Cohe... by boomboomsubban on Saturday June 16, 2018 @06:23AM (#17326851)

>Being elected president is not the time to learn a new technology suite. Hopefully most presidents have better things to do with their time than that.

At what level does this stop being a waste of time for the person?

I'm not suggesting Obama should have been forced to change, but every else in his administration was forced to change. There's some serious clashing between the need for secure devices and the reluctance to change from old technology.

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Re:FBI Recovers WhatsApp, Signal Data Stored on Michael Cohe... by untog on Saturday June 16, 2018 @07:37AM (#17327013)

I think it's fair to ask what the secure alternative platform was. I wouldn't be surprised if it was five years out of date and barely functional. I think the President ought to be able to say "this is crap, improve it".

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Re:FBI Recovers WhatsApp, Signal Data Stored on Michael Cohe... by rramdin on Monday June 18, 2018 @02:40PM (#17340591)

Hopefully your people's people's people don't interpret "setup e-mail for Mrs. Clinton to use on her Blackberry" as "setup an e-mail server on Mrs. Clinton's existing hardware and configure it on her Blackberrry."

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