I wonder what he needs a blackberry for, he is constantly surrounded by people, and it’s not like there is no way to reach him in the event of a family emergency… Phone HQ
There’s a new “holy grail” for hackers — President Obama’s super-secure BlackBerry.
Despite warnings from his advisers, the president insisted on keeping his beloved PDA, which now has specially designed superencrypting security software.
But that just makes cracking into it more challenging — and, yes, it can be done, says the world’s most famous hacker.
“It’s a long shot, but it’s possible,” Kevin Mitnick told FOXNews.com. “You’d probably need to be pretty sophisticated, but there’s people out there who are.”
Mitnick served nearly five years in prison after pleading guilty to charges of wire and computer fraud for hacking into computer systems at some of the country’s largest cell-phone and computer companies during the 1990s.
With his hacking days behind him, he now heads Mitnick Security Consulting.
“If I was the attacker, I would look to Obama’s close circle of friends, family and associates and try to compromise their machines at home,” Mitnick said. “The objective would be to get Obama’s e-mail address on the BlackBerry.”
