This is the phone NSA suggested Clinton use: A $4,750 Windows CE PDA
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/03/this-is-the-phone-nsa-suggested-clinton-use-a-4750-windows-ce-pda/
When former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was pushing to
get a waiver allowing her to use a BlackBerry like President
Barack Obama back in 2009, the National Security Agency had a
very short list of devices approved for classified
communications. It was two devices built for the Secure Mobile
Environment Portable Electronic Device (SME PED) program. In
fact, those devices were the only thing anyone in government
without an explicit security waiver (like the one the president
got, along with his souped-up BlackBerry 8830) could use until
as recently as last year to get mobile access to top secret
encrypted calls and secure e-mail. Despite $18 million in
development contracts for each of the vendors selected to build
the competing SME PED phones (or perhaps because of it), the
resulting devices were far from user-friendly. The
phones--General Dynamics' Sect?ra Edge and L3 Communications'
Guardian--were not technically "smart phones," but instead were
handheld personal digital assistants with phone capability,
derived from late 1990s and early 2000s technology that had been
hardened for security purposes--specifically, Windows CE
technology.
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--Lauren--
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