Global surveillance National Security Agency has led many government officials to reconsider their attitude to mobile gadgets. On the eve of the new generation of the iPhone "Times" remembered what smartphones are the leaders after the revelations of Edward Snowden.
BlackBerry
Canadian smartphone maker with protection against hacking is rightly popular with the leaders of major world powers.
After 2013, it became known that the smartphone German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been cracked, its administration has launched a systematic replacement of the iPhone model of BlackBerry Z10s. The Government of Germany was purchased five thousand. Smartphone data with 256-bit encryption and security features, message routing, as well as a special micro-SD card with additional means of protection from eavesdropping. The cost of this smartphone is € 2, 5 thousand.
However, Merkel herself has chosen a model BlackBerry Q10 with a full-size QWERTY-keyboard. Her smart phone is well protected and also transmits data on special internal VPN-connection.
Barack Obama became the first head of the US intelligence services who were allowed to use a smartphone, and the choice fell on the President and BlackBerry. Obama uses two device BlackBerry Curve 8900 and BlackBerry Q10, while it forbidden to use the iPhone. However, US President loves Apple products, and holds iPad and MacBook.
BlackBerry uses and the British Queen Elizabeth II. Your smartphone it has received during his visit to the factory in Canada in 2010.
BlackBerry also prefer British Prime Minister David Cameron and his colleague from Pakistan Nawaz Sharif.
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After the scandal caused by the information Snowden talks about listening to President Jacques Chirac, Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande, the French government has bought 14 thousand. Military ultra-secure encryption of mobile phones manufacturing Teorem defense company Thales. Additional data protection provides work units in fixed-protected government networks. These phones are used for important government calls, but in everyday life Hollande enjoys iPhone 5s.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, in his own words, do not use smart phones, but the head of the country is always ready to support domestic producers. In 2012, Putin appeared in public with the Android smartphone MTS "Glonass 945," and in late 2014 the president presented YotaPhone 2, which he presented to the Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
It is not known how he uses the smartphone Jinping, but his wife appeared in public with the iPhone 5, which made photography.
Dmitry Medvedev and his gadgets
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has the image of the most advanced technologies in modern Russian politics, which is also actively blogs on social networks Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and "VKontakte". Dmitry Anatolyevich got an iPhone 4 from the hands of Steve Jobs in 2011 and enjoys the iPad. But then the prime minister changed his smartphone Samsung Galaxy S4, which lasted until the release of the iPhone 5.
Now Dmitry Medvedev enjoys the iPhone 6. In particular, this smartphone was made prime minister of the self-gym at which he thanked his followers in Instagram to achieve the level of 1.5 million followers and calls for more exercise. The Prime Minister is one of the first public appearance at Apple Watch.
It should be noted that the Russian special services do not recommend the Russian officials to use Apple products including the fact that it is contrary to the requirements of the legislation on the storage of personal data of Russians in Russia. Now it is gradually replacing products Samsung, which also has enhanced security in specialized models and along with smartphone LG was considered for the role of communications for the US president, before the choice fell on the products BlackBerry. However, the device Samsung also does not fully comply with the requirements of Russian legislation on personal data.
HTC and Lumia
The head of North Korea's Kim Jong-un as anyone else to take care of the privacy of his telephone conversations, and it was easy to doubt that he is using normal smartphone. However, on one of the photos of North Korean leader was spotted black smartphone that resembles HTC. Apparently, the choice of the Taiwanese manufacturer does not contradict the convictions of the first secretary of the Central Committee of the WPK.
