Obama Family Given Secret Service Code Names

[Hissyspit]

Source: Huffington Post

Obama Family Secret Service Code Names

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | November 10, 2008 03:43 PM

The new First Family has been issued code names by the Secret Service.

Barack Obama's is "Renegade," Michelle Obama's is "Renaissance," Malia Obama's is "Radiance," and Sasha Obama's is "Rosebud."

Joe and Jill Biden also received code names, though it's tough to top "Renegade" and "Renaissance." Joe Biden's is "Celtic," and Jill Biden's is "Capri."

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/10/obama-family-s...

[ogneopasno]

1. Love 'em.

[beam me up scottie]

2. "Renegade" !

Way cooler than the self anointed "mavericks".

Has anyone informed the freepers?

[Drunken Irishman]

7. Palin's was Denali (a mountain range in Alaska) and, I kid you not, Todd Palin was Driller.

[JBear]

12. You sure that was not Denial? (nt)

[beam me up scottie]

20. Denali,

not just a river in ... well, you know.

And driller is just sick.

[question everything]

33. Looks like they like to keep the same first letter for the whole family

Should have been easy enough to find five more "D"s, I suppose, for the kids.

[Trajan]

17. No matter how hard you try, you cant stop us now !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqWP1rsAMrw

Renegades of FUNK !

[beam me up scottie]

24. Okay, they absolutely HAD to have that song in mind when they picked it.

I would give every last dime to see that played at the inauguration.

"Now move, sucka!"

[Sweet Freedom]

3. Love them!

Here's a list of code names past and present--

http://www.nndb.com/lists/050/000140627 /

[oldtime dfl_er]

4. George W Bush=Tumbler

[ogneopasno]

5. Todd Palin = DRILLER!

Drill 'er? I hardly know 'er!

[Lakerstan]

10. Obama girls the same as Reagan girls?

Doria Reagan: Radiant
Maureen Reagan: Rhyme, Rosebud

[geomon666]

6. Um...why are the codenames public? n/t

[Drunken Irishman]

8. They're not important anymore. Generally used because of tradition.

[clydefrand]

9. Exactly my question?????

[onehandle]

11. Covered extensively when this news was posted earlier today.

It's no secret.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

13. The Secret Service uses...

Radios that use digital transmission, minimum of 128 bit encrypted and with military grade(pseudo-random, lots of frequencies) frequency agility(hopping from channel to channel moment to moment. Full letters of words are rarely finished on the same channel they started transmission). The digital keys are the holiest of holies and changed with great frequency, also generated using some very slick technology for entropy.

It would take some mighty big computing power to crack aand receive thos comms. As was said, the code names are just a tradition, and such things do make for more efficient radio communications.

[Trajan]

30. A fascinating side note ....

The actress, Hedy Lamarr, received a US patent for her co-invention of radio frequency hopping technology ... Crazy, huh ....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr#Frequency-hopp...


Frequency-hopped spread spectrum invention

Avant garde composer George Antheil, a son of German immigrants and neighbor of Lamarr, had experimented with automated control of instruments. Together, he and Lamarr submitted the idea of a Secret Communication System in June 1941. On 11 August 1942, U.S. Patent 2,292,387 was granted to Antheil and "Hedy Kiesler Markey", Lamarr's married name at the time. This early version of frequency hopping used a piano roll to change between 88 frequencies and was intended to make radio-guided torpedoes harder for enemies to detect or jam.

The idea was ahead of its time, and not feasible due to the state of mechanical technology in 1942. It was not implemented in the USA until 1962, when it was used by U.S. military ships during a blockade of Cuba,<6> after the patent had expired. Neither Lamarr nor Antheil (who died in 1959) made any money from the patent. Perhaps due to this lag in development, the patent was little-known until 1997, when the Electronic Frontier Foundation gave Lamarr an award for this contribution.<1>

Lamarr's and Antheil's frequency-hopping idea serves as a basis for modern spread-spectrum communication technology, such as COFDM used in WiFi network connections and CDMA used in some cordless and wireless telephones.<7> Similar patents had been granted to others earlier, like in Germany in 1935 to Telefunken engineers Paul Kotowski and Kurt Dannehl who also received U.S. Patent 2,158,662 and U.S. Patent 2,211,132 in 1939 and 1940.

[aquart]

31. Wow. War hero movie star.

Now that should be a movie.

[heliarc]

32. Neat...

and she just got 10 times hotter.

[HopeHoops]

21. That was my thought - did somebody find a Secret Service decoder ring in their Lucky Charms?

[silverojo]

14. They're all great, and "Celtic" speaks to my own Irish roots

But what's the point of having code names, when the public is fully aware of them? I've always wondered about that.

ON EDIT: Thanks for the explanations on this thread!

[PassingFair]

23. What I wanna know is:

Do they pronounce it Keltic or Seltic?

Seems like a problem to me...

[murray hill farm]

28. Both are correct!

Such as celtic dancers with the K sound or boston celtics with the S sound.

[PassingFair]

29. This is why it is NOT a good choice for a "code name".

Which, by definition, should be a constant.

[MiaCulpa]

15. I don't get it.

Why SS code names, and then tell everyone what they are? shouldn't they be secret? *shrugs*

-Diane

[kitty1]

16. What was McCains codename; Depends

[OswegoAtheist]

18. McKampf = Phoenix.

Also, IIRC, Hugh Rodham's codename was "Headache"

Oswego "my codename is 'Codename'" Atheist

[beam me up scottie]

25. !

[dipsydoodle]

19. Presumably the dog will be

Rin Tin Tin.

[HopeHoops]

22. No, "Piddles"

[dipsydoodle]

26. All the others begin with an R

so you'd need to change that to Riddles.

[Ian David]

27. NooOOOo!! Not "Rosebud!" Rosebud was William Randolph Hearst's nickname for his wife's clitoris! n/t