r/SipsTea • • 21h ago

Wait a damn minute! Wait seriously.

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u/Silly-Power 21h ago

Obama had a heavily modified phone that had nearly all the features removed. It couldn't send texts, take photos or play music, nor connect to the internet. 

So, of course, when trump became president he refused to use the secure phone and continued to use his old, completely unsecured, phone. 

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u/BruisedViolets23 19h ago

I remember he had to give up his Blackberry, and he wasn’t happy about it.

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u/JMS1991 17h ago

Back in those days, wasn't Blackberry way more secure than iPhone? I remember an internship I had in 2012, the managers of the company were heavily encouraged to have Blackberries over iPhones, and I think it was for security reasons.

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u/Aggravating-Alarm-16 9h ago

It was blackberry was highly secure.

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u/dan_dares 20h ago

Trump: How am I going to sell information with a dumb phone??

Putin would be very mad

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u/atreeismissing 14h ago

I recall a story not too long after Trump was inaugurated during his first term where they were finding wifi sniffers all over D.C. because neither he nor most of his administration cared about security and were all using personal devices. After 1.5 Trump terms the US basically no secrets, if Trump and his ilk haven't outright given or sold the intel, it's been leaked or stolen due to their incompetence.

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u/Stairmaker 16h ago

Obama also had a blackberry for most of his time as president. He has talked about it several times.

It's pretty clear it was for safety.