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> One is the lesson you draw, which is that the NSA should have secured her damn Blackberry. The second is that this was really about egos, and Clinton couldn't accept that she was less important, and deserved a less important phone, than Obama, so she went ahead anyway.

It could be ego. It could just be the hold of the crackberry. I didn't know many people that were full on in thrall to the Temple of Blackberry, but those few were willing to do what it takes to keep using them (until eventually they gave in and accepted the inevitable loss and usually moved to iPhone)

I had to spend about a week to figure out how to get a Blackberry to send DKIM compliant email before I could turn on DKIM. One of the acceptable alternatives for the CEO was just enabling anyone with a blackberry to send email from our domain.




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