The Pentagon is warming to Apple (@apple), with at least one order for $9.4 million worth of iDevices for the Air Force in the pipeline.
Bloomberg Businessweek relays:
The announcement, though expected, is less a win for Apple than a defeat for BlackBerry (BBRY). Almost 80 percent of the U.S. military’s 600,000 mobile devices are BlackBerry smartphones or tablets. That’s not actually so many: BlackBerry sold 28.1 million devices last year.
You might be asking yourself, “But I thought Blackberry is the securest”, to which I’d answer, “What the hell does that mean?” and “Your English is horrid.”
The truth is, as shadowy collectives from Anonymous to the Syrian Electronic Army (who hacked the Financial Times website just this week) regularly remind us, no one is safe if you’ve become a target for e-mischief or e-tomfoolery.
So does it matter if they found the Pentagon techies’ personal stash of sundry by hacking their iPhone 5, Android Robotus, Dingleberry, or the “ol’ salty” Nokia? Not really, and aren’t we just giving up at this point anyway?
It seems that some organization, whether government, public, private, or parody (The Onion) is being hacked weekly if not daily, so maybe we need to rethink our defensive strategies and ask the tough questions, such as “Should these folks have Internet access at all?”
The Boston Globe reported in July 2010:
… Federal investigators “have identified several dozen Pentagon officials and contractors with high-level security clearances who allegedly purchased and downloaded child pornography, including an undisclosed number who used their government computers to obtain the illegal material.”
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, that is our defense department. But let’s not let one rotten Apple (word of the day, so scream now) spoil the whole fruitcake.
And speaking of fruitcake, with all the apples and berries going around, what’s missing? You got it.
Banana Phone.
