Comments on: Mexican press member caught stealing BlackBerrys belonging to White House staffers

By: Ken Westin

Ken Westin — Sat, 10 May 2008 09:20:30 +0000

They should look into GadgetTrak for phones:

http://www.gadgettrak.com/products/phonebak

By: Juan

Juan — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:03:36 +0000

@ Enrique, dude you sound like racist, I am a Hispanic, but my dad is from Mexico. He has always worked all his life, r u employed?

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:07:29 +0000

Seriously WTF is up with all the spam in the RSS version of this???

It’s several pages of drug spam links.

By: isis

isis — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:59:55 +0000

Just to enlighten some of you out there that think only NAFTA is underway with Mexico…there is a north american union. Bushy signed the papers along with the leader of mexico and the PM of canada. We are now called the north american union and will have new money in a few years called the Amero. Look it up. Anyways so all your mexicans crossing the border crap is completely useless…hahaha…can’t wait to see what all the anti-immagration people say when that happens…

Share the world people! It aint yours alone ya know.
Over and out.
Your cuban delegate,
Isis

By: alcoholicaust

alcoholicaust — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:37:11 +0000

DoD uses a lock and erase feature as well, so without the unlock pin, the blackberry is a shiny paperweight. Back in the day if we had a Classified Message incident on someones blackberry, we had to sanitize it by way of sledgehammer

By: ChrisNYC

ChrisNYC — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:36:35 +0000

“A pet peeve of mine…Note the Fox News story uses the incorrect plural, BlackBerries rather than then the proper BlackBerrys.”

Bloomberg ran it as Mexican steels White House Blackberries, and I’m such a dolt that I envisioned a guy arrested on the White House lawn picking berries.

Oh man, I need a vacation.

By: theregoesdave

theregoesdave — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:04:00 +0000

So, in the RSS for this story there’s a ridiculous amount of linkspam under the story…

By: galvatron

galvatron — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:16:41 +0000

are you an editor of a book comapny or a a media ornization if not plasestop aspiring to be a grammar nazi. it irks an sresses you for no reason you have no sway over fox news you can alway email them.

By: KeNNethX

KeNNethX — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:22:22 +0000

A pet peeve of mine…Note the Fox News story uses the incorrect plural, BlackBerries rather than then the proper BlackBerrys. I know its nitpicking but…it always bugs me.

By: voodmania

voodmania — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:16:03 +0000

Nobody notice the spam links in the rss feed?

By: sid

sid — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:27:07 +0000

who said their data wasn’t encrypted or that they didn’t have a datawipe ready to go, it just said that they stuff was stolen, not that data was accessed

By: Brad Beckett

Brad Beckett — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 04:53:29 +0000

Why did they not have RIM’s bluetooth smartcard reader installed? That would allow them to encrypt their emails and when their blackberries move out of range of the bluetooth smartcard reader, they automatically lock.

Who’s heading the IT security of the whitehouse? They really should be encrypting their emails due to the fact they travel from the wireless carriers to RIM’s operations center/network in Canada, a foreign country.

By: John

John — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 04:05:56 +0000

speedy Gonzalez!!!

By: galvatron

galvatron — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:15:35 +0000

saw it on fox new he wasn’r a press attche he was logistics for the mexican .gov delagation thats how he claimed diplomatc unity

he could be brought up on espienage chrges though not smart at all

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:08:15 +0000

stupid guy didn’t realize that a quick call to their BES admin and all the missing devices could be wiped clean in seconds!

By: Bla1ze

Bla1ze — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:59:12 +0000

Man, I was waiting for those damn BB, thats the last time I hire Jesus for anything.

By: Jeff B.

Jeff B. — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:38:24 +0000

What’s our country’s policy? Nuke ‘em before they fight? wonder what’s gonna happen next…

By: zac

zac — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:16:19 +0000

Ok so I can’t really speak out against the govt without fearing black choppers comming to my house and had I stolen these blackberrys that I helped to pay for they would waterboard my ass and yet this fool can just say yeah I did it suck a fat one and walk away….god this country is…as a certain writer once said…”MOTOFUKD”

Just teasing!

But seriously, that’s lame as hell and yeah, the racist comments are wrong dude

By: Kirk Williams

Kirk Williams — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:10:50 +0000

Vote for Pedro.

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:42:35 +0000

Its not un-common for government meetings to ban cellphones. Most people are smart enough to leave them in their cars.

I for one keep my phone pin-locked for the exact reason of having to leave it at the door so often. I also encrypt any sensitive data.

Several company’s also have a “nuke” program that can respond to a special SMS and delete and disable the device.

I can see taking one crackberry being accidental, but how can several be accidental.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:37:43 +0000

Normally, one is prohibited from bring electronic devices to secure meetings, however normally there is a secure location (i.e. locker) to store such devices. In this case, I’m guessing the building was a limited access building, so they didn’t worry about leaving things on the desk outside the meeting room.

As a side note, I’m wondering if the diplomatic immunity claim is misquoted; only the highest levels of diplomats are granted immunity to arrest. See here at the state department: http://www.state.gov/m/ds/immunities/c9127.htm

By: Marky Mark

Marky Mark — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:36:17 +0000

“But this is sad.. when the ‘lead press advance’ from Mexico is even a thief.. what does that say about the country?!?”

What does it say about Americans that George Bush is president? Nothing. Generalizations are bad mmmkay?

By: jvijil

jvijil — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:35:56 +0000

umm y does this random reporter have diplomatic immunity to begin with? i thought only ambassadors and heads of state got that priveledge….

By: Codey H.

Codey H. — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:19:01 +0000

It was clinton with the NAFTA signing.

But this is sad.. when the ‘lead press advance’ from Mexico is even a thief.. what does that say about the country?!?

“Claimed diplomatic immunity” .. uh, where’s the Patriot Act when you need it?

By: coldcc

coldcc — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:18:17 +0000

This is why comments should be moderated.

By: andrew

andrew — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:10:50 +0000

anybody that didn’t find Enrique funny is to up tight. the sad thing is what he said for the most part is true. besides didn’t bush make Mexico part of the U.S.A. along with Canada with the North American Union

By: The Boy Genius

The Boy Genius — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:02:20 +0000

@ Enrique

Seriously, the negative and racist comments are totally not necessary dude.

By: Ray

Ray — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:58:56 +0000

The stupid and unfortunate actions of one corrupt Mexican official does not allow You to make broad generalizations about an entire country. The ignorance you put on display with your stereotypical and racist comments are precisely what fuels hate mongering in America.

Enrique who is no doubt a Latino who is tired of being picked on because he looks mexican, has taken taken that negative energy and become just another ignorant racist. As a latino, Im very disturbed by these comments.

By: Enrique

Enrique — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:45:52 +0000

damn mexicans always tryna steal out shit its bad enough they sneak under the fences at the border now they try to steal government secrets its ok though because they will be too lazy to do anything with the secretz