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$20 Blackberry from the McCain-Palin campaign comes with Secret Emails, Contacts

By December 13, 2008No Comments

It’s pretty much common sense that when you’re ditching your old cell phone you want to erase your personal data, contacts and emails — or at least try to. Oh sure, there are plenty of examples of failing to do so, but this one’s rather… shall we say, “special.” Some operatives at Fox 5 in Washington, D.C. booked over to the McCain-Palin campaign headquarters’ yard sale yesterday, and they saw some ultra cheap Blackberrys — just $20 a pop, probably an inventor’s discount — so they picked up a few, undoubtedly thinking they’d make nice holiday gifts. They were kind of surprised to find that, after giving the ‘Berrys some juice, one of them had 50 contacts for “campaign leaders, politicians, lobbyists and journalists” as well as hundreds of emails. When reached for comment, a campaign spokesperson said that “procedures are being put in place to ensure all information is secure,” followed minutes later by a blank email CC’d to his entire address book with the subject line “We’re so screwed.” Read

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Josh Lam

Hi my name is Josh Lam and I'm from the city-state of Hong Kong. Realizing there was more to explore than this city, my goal is to visit all 193 countries in the world by using a combination of credit card points and airline miles to travel better for less.

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