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Wednesday, June 20, 2007

French Government Worried About American Government Reading It’s Emails?

Why would we want to read French government emails?  For all their military secrets?

Please.

Top French government officials are ignoring warnings to ditch their cherished BlackBerrys—smartphones with e-mail capacity—despite warnings their messages may be intercepted by US spy agencies, a report said Tuesday.

“They tried to offer us something else to replace our BlackBerrys,” an unnamed official in the prime minister’s office told Le Monde newspaper. “But that didn’t work and some people use their BlackBerrys in secret.”

French security officials are worried that e-mails sent by government officials from a BlackBerry might be picked up by the US National Security Agency because the servers for BlackBerry mail are located in the United States and Britain, according to Le Monde.

They first notified the government of this risk 18 months ago but have had to reissue the warning, the paper said.

“The risk of interception is real, it’s an economic war,” Alain Juilllet, a senior French economic intelligence official, told Le Monde.

Maybe the Frenchies should drop some of their arcane regulations foisted upon business and industry by the liberals in their country to facilitate the sort of inventors and innovators that have created systems like Blackberry here in America.

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Damned Canadians,

The cutting-edge hand-held wireless device was created by Waterloo-based Research In Motion (RIM), a company founded in 1984 University of Waterloo engineering student Mike Lazaridis (President and co-CEO) and University of Windsor Engineering student Douglas Fregin (VP Operations). RIM was the first wireless technology developer in North America.

CEO Lazaridis, Sounds French

WOOF on June 20, 2007 at 12:56 pm

It seems like everyone is trying to blame Bush…


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goon on June 20, 2007 at 06:52 pm
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And in most cases they are right.

Bigwig on June 20, 2007 at 07:44 pm
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Hey Poodle, who took the RIM technology to the public and put it in a product that’s so popular the Frenchies can’t leave it alone?

Oh yeah.  America.

Don’t you just hate it when it turns out your country is the home for just about all the major technological innovations and inventions?  I bet it really chafes your liberal ass.


The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. But how is… legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay … If such a law is not abolished immediately it will spread, multiply and develop into a system.

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Rob on June 20, 2007 at 08:12 pm

I bet it really chafes your liberal ass.

Up your meds and give up psychic dermatology.

WOOF on June 20, 2007 at 08:24 pm
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Sure, if you’ll try actually knowing stuff for a change.


The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. But how is… legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay … If such a law is not abolished immediately it will spread, multiply and develop into a system.

Frédéric Bastiat, The Law

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Rob on June 20, 2007 at 08:31 pm

Just a minor, insiginifcant point:

The word in the title should be “Its” not It’s.” The form you used is the contraction for “It is” not the possessive form which you intended to use.


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Steve L. on June 21, 2007 at 06:02 am
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