Subj : Re: Meta hits back after
To   : KURT WEISKE
From : Mike Powell
Date : Fri Jun 27 2025 10:23 am

>  MP> I would prefer them not to.  Here in Kentucky, we were not allowed to
>  MP> use them, especially for government-related correspondence.  We seemed
>  MP> to have crossed a line somewhere, and it appears to have been going on
>  MP> for a while.

> Obama used a hardened, sanctioned Blackberry. Trump 45 was seen with a
> Samsung S3 that I hope ran a third party OS without Google Services -
> but I doubt it.

We used Blackberries for serveral years.  Sometime before 2015, they
switched over to a choice between Apple and Android and phased out the last
Blackberries in 2015.

Last phone I got sometime before COVID was an Apple, so I am not sure if they
had phased all the Androids out, too, or if I got that just because my
previous work phone was also an Apple.

Based on what I was told in 2015 when they forced me off of Blackberry, it
sounded like they "got a great deal" had a lot more weight than whatever
security risks they were introducing.

Mike

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