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by jsprogrammer
3749 days ago
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>Unlike your example, a secure solution existed to the problem. Obama used it every day. In the article the NSA is quoted as saying that additional BlackBerries could not be secured due to lack of resources. You assume a lot (without apparent basis) about your OP. |
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The problem is not fundamentally unsolvable because Obama had one of those phones. The solution existed and at least one of them was produced.
The US Government spent $4 trillion in FY 2016. I can't imagine that a secure blackberry for the Secretary of State would have costed more than a negligible fraction of a fraction of a percentage of that.
The "lack of resources" was someone /deciding/ that they didn't want to spend the resources on securing the US Secretary of State's phone -- not some kind of law of nature or economics.
The person who made the judgement that there were "no resources" to accomplish the task ALSO needs to be held accountable for that decision.