US government tells officials, politicians to ditch regular calls and texts

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7. The "problem" of late, has not so much been on (government) POTS lines

but when the government started introducing mobile devices.

I remember my own agency initially deploying Blackberries (I had 2 over those years before I retired), but once the iPhones and iPads came out, people were demanding to be able to use those, and that opened up a whole other can of worms.

Hell, I still remember when I first started at my agency when each lab group (and other office group) had only ONE wired-into-the-wall black rotary phone per supervisory group (no phone on everyone's desk). Took a decade after that before they finally started wiring the place to allow a phone on every desk.