Article: Crossing palms at the CIA.(Brief Article)

Secrecy is maybe the biggest challenge of the information age, and no one is more paranoid about it than the CIA. Visitors to headquarters must park mobile phones at the reception desk, and floppy disk drives in classified computers are disabled to prevent downloads of sensitive data. So some staffers were taken aback when the agency recently lifted the ban on certain personal digital assistants. Employees can now use PDAs, including some Palms and Handspring Visors. "We don't want to prevent anyone from moving into the digital age," says a spokesperson. But the more advanced PDAs--those that have wireless Internet connections or have a ...

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