“We want to shred Obama’s BlackBerry”

When President Elect Barack Obama takes office on the 20th, the most influential BlackBerry user on the planet right now will have to get rid of his Blackberry. The reason for this is that due to certain federal regulations the new president must dispose of any potentially compromised communication and tracking devices. That includes certain GPS chip enabled devices, cell phones, PDAs, and the like.

The most obvious course of action is to simply shred these devices at Inauguration time to ensure that they will never again work properly. And to mark this historic event, Maryland-based data destructors DataKillers has offered to shred Obama’s BlackBerry for free.