Short note:

Recently Chris Soghoian – who reached stardom after faking boarding tickets – signaled he has plenty more to offer! In fact I wonder he should consider moving into the comedy business!

"A slightly more laborious method would be to hack the software running on the BlackBerrys and flash the devices with a new serial number. While this is quite possibly a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (which prohibits most forms of phone hacking), it is unlikely that Research In Motion (which makes the BlackBerry) would sue the White House for engaging in such reverse engineering."

Why would the US Government hack the Blackberry firmware when they can simply ask RIM to insert such a simple feature on few of the devices? More important would be the fact RIM is a Canadian organization, rather than an American business.

You don't like DCMA? Fair! But… you know… well… never mind…