[ISN] Death by BlackBerry crisis averted

http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/mobiles/death-by-blackberry-crisis-averted-20110301-1bca6.html

By Asher Moses
The Sydney Morning Herald 
March 1, 2011

With threats of cyber war on the horizon, one would think the Department 
of Defence has more pressing security concerns than whether politicians 
keep the flashing blue light on the top of their BlackBerry handsets on 
or off.

But the secretive Defence Signals Directorate (DSD) was so concerned 
that it instituted a recommendation requiring politicians to enable the 
flashing light on their taxpayer-funded mobiles.

It has now backflipped on the rule after senators rebelled, arguing it 
could cause serious accidents.

The seemingly innocuous BlackBerry light, which flashes blue when paired 
with a Bluetooth device such as a car hands-free kit, caused such 
consternation that Senator Stephen Parry used a Senate estimates hearing 
to rail against the Defence order to leave the light on and warned it 
was "exceptionally dangerous at night".

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