As you may or may not know, the presidents of the US have generally speaking been forbidden from using email and/or cellphones because it is unsafe or would give away their location etc etc. (there are a few exceptions but those are ultra rare).
Obama is a Blackberry addict so he was pretty worried about not being able to take it with him into the office, and it seems they compromised: a 3000 dollar heavily encrypted blackberry, approved by the NSA.
http://www.zimbio.com/BarackBerry/artic ... Blackberry
But what stood out the most for me in that story is this part:
ROFLBBQ! Windows 2000?!!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28787998/