A new secure phone for outside the White House
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Last Thursday, Americans celebrated Thanksgiving and traditionally the president addressed members of the military services that are deployed abroad. For Donald Trump this was the second time during his presidency. The video footage and photos of that address also showed something that is one of the topics of this weblog: a new telephone used for top level telecommunications of the president of the United States: President Trump speaks to members of the military over the phone from his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach. November 22, 2018. (photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images - click to enlarge) The telephone set that president Trump used for his conference call can be recognized as a Cisco IP Phone 8841 , but with some distinctive modifications. Top Secret The first one is that is has a bright yellow bezel around the high-resolution color display, while standard phones have a black or a silver one. As yellow is the color code for information classified Top Secret/Sensitive Comparment