http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=167988



By Yaakov Katz

The Jerusalem Post

07/02/2010



When Barack Obama was elected president of the United States, he was 

told he could no longer use his personal BlackBerry to receive e-mails, 

as it is not secure. Shortly after he took office, though, press reports 

emerged that one of America’s government agencies had succeeded in 

creating an encrypted BlackBerry specially designed for Obama.



The IDF is considering doing the same and in the coming year plans to 

choose a new phone model to be used by commanders for the "Mountain 

Rose" encrypted military cellular network.



Mountain Rose is a completely secure network that enables IDF commanders 

to talk to one another via cellular phones that can also be operated 

from behind enemy lines, as they were during Operation Cast Lead in the 

Gaza Strip in 2009 and the Second Lebanon War in 2006.



"This is a completely secure network that is impossible to hack into," a 

senior officer in the IDF’s C4I (command, control, communications, 

computers and intelligence) Directorate explained last week.



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