By David Martosko, U.s. Political Editor President Barack Obama can't play Angry Birds on his smartphone. No Words With Friends, no Candy Crush, and no Texas Hold'em. And he can blame the NSA. A retired National Security Agency technical director said Thursday that the government spy shop tasked him with custom-fitting a Blackberry for the president. That meant stripping away every built-in feature that a hacker might exploit. 'You try to get rid of any functionality that's not really required,' Richard George told CNN Money. 'Every piece of functionality is an opportunity for the adversary.' So that means the leader of the free world isn't free to while away his hours crushing pigs with catapulting birds, or trying to come up with a 70-point play on a triple-word-score box.
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The president has to use personal digital devices that the NSA has retrofitted with world-class encryption
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Blackberry leads the field in robust security, but the White House is testing Android devices
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Obama's phone can only call about 10 numbers – phones that can match his for encryption and data protection
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The NSA gave him a stripped-down smartphone with no games, and likely no selfie-camera or texting function
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