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“BlackBerrys are the only devices used in the country that have data managed by a foreign, commercial agency and stored outside of the UAE, according to a report from the Emirates News Agency, which is part of the country’s Ministry of Information and Culture,” Kirk reports.
MacDailyNews Take: Yes, we know it’s “only Canada,” but it is another reason why the U.S. President should not be using a BlackBerry, besides, of course, his not supporting an American company. (We love you Canucks, but the U.S President should be using U.S. technology, especially when it’s markedly superior to the antiquated, plastic-buttoned mess that’s currently hanging off his belt).
Kirk continues, “The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority said that as a result of how that data is stored ‘certain BlackBerry applications allow people to misuse the service, causing serious social, judicial and national security repercussions.'”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “BlackWolf,” “TheConfuzed1,” “TheLagosChap,” “Lynn W.,” and “Gideon” for the heads up.]
Those damn Canadians. So cocky since they won the War of 1812 and burned the Whitehouse.
Sorry MDN, but you should read up on the Blackberry used by the president before you make stupid statements. His is not routed through the standard servers in Canada, but secured US servers.
That said, it is only a matter of time before RIM has to figure out a better way to handle their services. Routing through their servers is no longer an option to remain competitive.
just wondering, should the president use technology from Redmond instead?
@ SamLowry
“just wondering, should the president use technology from Redmond instead?”
NOOOOOOOOOOOO!
The real problem that the UAE have with this is that the data is encrypted and they are unable to monitor what’s being said.
fisherbln,
I think MDN’s main point that the U.S. President should be supporting a U.S. company is a good one. Obviously.
Of course, this particular U.S. president hates U.S. business almost as much as he loves unemployed voters who feel dependent on him and his style of government, so I can see why he doesn’t give a shit and clings to his antiquated BlackBerry made by a company outside the country.
Betcha if Kenya made a cellphone, the empty suit would be all over it.
@Big Als MBP
…and don’t forget WWI as well.
As a Canadian, I should be proud that RIM is a home-grown company that has international successes, but after trying to enter the settings for an email account into a client’s Blackberry a few years ago, I can see why they have the reputation they have, especially since the iPhone came into town. The user experience sucks!
As for Canadian vs. US technology… that’s a lame argument. How can MDN so boldly say the President should be using US technology when our beloved Apple products are built in China? Why not demand that the President make local assembly more competitive? That’s a better argument.
As a Canadian in love with an American company, I say it has nothing to do with the borders, but rather the principles and standards that one lives by, whether an individual or a company.
coolfactor,
Apple’s profits are made and, most importantly to Obama, Apple’s MAJOR LEAGUE TAXES, are paid in America.
The U.S. President should be backing U.S.-based companies – especially when the U.S. company makes the superior product. Even a leftist socialist progressive should be able to understand that simple point.
Imagine the uproar if Obama replaced his fleet of shit American cars with BMWs.
Hardly anything is completely built in the USA anymore thanks to Unions, and Obama’s relentless pursuit of giving these job ruining unions anything they want.
MDN’s take is ok, because the president should be supporting American tech, not foreign tech, but if it were up to Obama, he’d be running everything and dictating everything you do,,
So why sign Free Trade then? The argument falls flat…
Maybe we should make him buy a Chevy Volt as well.
Fsck the UAE. Fsck all those nauseatingly rich do nothings. You want to flatten a regime for the good of the world? Bomb the Arab oil states back to the stone age.
MDN: How about you let the president decide? There’s a reason why he’s president and you guys aren’t
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I see the Fox News brigade here at MDN is awake and chipper as ever.
“BlackBerrys are the only devices used in the country that have data managed by a foreign, commercial agency and stored outside of the UAE”
Mobile Me, you are next.
When Americans are walking down the sidewalk in the UAE, they have to stand aside if a UAE-man is heading the other way on the sidewalk because they won’t observe the standard “both people give a little to avoid a collision” courtesy. UAE men, to signal how tough they are and their hatred of Americans, will just collide with an American man who fails to completely step aside and then pick a fight.
As for RIM’s BlackBerry, they probably violate UAE law because they will transmit pictures of unveiled women’s faces.
Greg L…you must be talented to come up with that kind of bs.
@ iHope
BS? Sorry, I know of Navy personnel who have been there. Just because you don’t *like* to hear about how UAE sucks in some way, doesn’t mean it ain’t true.
@iHope
Oh, as for the “unveiled womens’ faces”-bit, that obviously wasn’t a serious allegation.
The part about Americans have to be cautioned to step aside on sidewalks for an approaching UAE man who is intent on demonstrating how he is a big important man be acting like an unsteerable supertanker, that’s true.
I can’t help if it if
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so for years RIM has done their best to keep our conversations BBM on there celfones as private as a letter dropped into a mailbox … the way it should be … right ???
suddenly governments decided we no longer have that privacy…
is some angry drunk fat redheaded commi pig going to start openning our letters at the post office to read our private conversations…is that next?
is that freedom …
if the government fears its citizens in such a way they need to read our correspondence …
it is because they know they are sticking their heads way too far up our asses and fear retaliation…
people have a right to express their veiws amongst their peers as they please
you cannot control what people think you morons …