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National Archives: What, Me Worry?

National Archives: What, Me Worry?Legitimately do us harm??wtf do u mean"Granular levels of Access" - probably notFor the record so to speak, there is no "National Security Administration". There is the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA - the National Archives) and the National Security Agency (NSA - the communications...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, National Security Archive, National Archives

Discussion threads 2009-05-26

National Archives lost 2TB drive from Clinton years

National Archives lost 2TB drive from Clinton yearsAt first i thought it was a loss of 2 TB of data, but...then I realized it was just a copy possibly getting into the wrong hands.Well, pretty serious either way, assuming the drive contents were personal/sensitive/classified.Digital data protection will continue to be...

Tags: Disaster recovery, Backups, National Archives

Discussion threads 2009-05-21

UK Archives, Microsoft tackle format obsolescence

Can your office run Windows 3.1 or open documents written in Word 5? The fact that most people can't is of grave concern to the UK National Archives, the BBC reports.Archives chief Natalie Ceeney said society faced the possibility of "losing years of critical knowledge" because modern PCs could not...

Tags: Open source, International

Blog posts 2007-07-03

Archives intern sells Civil War docs on eBay

In a shocking violation of the nations historical artifacts, prosecutors charged an intern with the National Archives with stealing about 165 Civil War documents — including the War Departments announcement of President Lincolns death — and selling most of them on eBay, according to the Associated Press. Denning...

Tags: Civil War, intern, eBay Inc., National Archives

Blog posts 2007-03-16

National Archives identifies 25,000 improperly removed docs

National Archives identifies 25,000 improperly removed docsOpaque Government."National security" seems to be to this administration what "abracadabra" is to stage magicians.I'm almost 70, and I've never seen an administration so jealous of its secrets, and so aggressive when its attempt to classify EVERYTHING fail. Beat Nixon's White House by...

Tags: Workforce management, administration, National Archives

Discussion threads 2006-07-06

National Archives identifies 25,000 improperly removed docs

Fully a third of documents pulled from the National Archives for supposed national security reasons should not have been removed, the Archives' audit found. The New York Times reports that even of the remaining two-thirds, there was little to recommend removal. [R]emoval of the remaining two-thirds was...

Tags: audit, National Archives

Blog posts 2006-04-27

National Archives puts400,000 State records online

The National Archives is putting more than 400,00 State Dept. records and telegrams online, covering the years 1973 and 1974, Government Computer News reports. The documents—from State’s Central Foreign Policy Files database—consist of historical telegrams, index references to paper documents created in 1974, and withdrawal notices...

Tags: National Archives, telegram

Blog posts 2006-04-07

For the National Archive, a new e-records system built by Lockheed Martin

The National Archives has awarded a $308 million contract to Lockheed Martin to build an electronic records system. Computerworld quotes Ken Thibodeau, director of the Electronic Records Archives. The system will do three basic things. It will start modernizing the National Archives...

Tags: electronic record, National Archives, Lockheed Martin Corp.

Blog posts 2005-09-12

Additional Resources

NPR and Livio partner for Wi-Fi radio device

Hearst has said it is developing an e-reader, and now another news organization is simply creating its own tech gadget. Livio and National Public Radio NPR have partnered for the first Internet radio device, aptly named the NPR Radio. Featuring exclusive NPR...

Tags: NPR, Radio, Wi-Fi, National Public Radio Inc., Livio, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Rachel King

Blog posts 2009-10-20

The Open College Textbook Act of 2009

ProfsWhat will the profs who force everyone to buy the latest edition of their own $125 textbook do now?Probably still the same thing.RE: The Open College Textbook Act of 2009You do know that this act will severely curtail the research that could lead to new curricula and textbooks?Why? It's because...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, textbook, Open College Textbook Act

Discussion threads 2009-10-02

Cryptola 1.0 (Windows)

Cryptola is a powerful yet easy-to-use file encryption tool for Windows XP and Vista. Cryptola uses cryptographic technology designed by the National Security Agency NSA and published by the NIST as a U.S. Federal Information Processing Standard. I wrote Cryptola because I wanted to protect my system backups (.zip archives...

Tags: Ravi Bhavnani, Cryptola, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Backups, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-09-05

Images Of War: World War II Screensaver 1.0 2009 (Windows)

We at Midkar.com, have created a World War II Music Screen Saver that honors all the allies and innocent people that died in the cause of world freedom. And of course, we are paying tribute to our Armed Forces around the world today, for whose courage and sacrifice, give to...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Image

Software downloads 2009-06-30

Just let Google give us the books already!

ZDNet Government's Richard Koman declared Google's foray into orphan books to be "all but dead." A deeper look into features in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, however, show us what we really stand to lose in education Not too long ago, I...

Tags: Google Inc., ZDNet Government, Orphans, Litigation, E-books, Quality, Business Operations, Personal Technology, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-06-10

News to know: Social media screwups; Microsoft's search; iPhone; Google

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Robin Harris: The $17.5 million hard drive Jason Perlow: National Archives: What, Me Worry? Jennifer Leggio: The very worst of social media ...

Tags: Apple AirPort Express, Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Apple Airport, Social Media, Microsoft Corp., Twitter, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-26

National Archives: What, Me Worry?

I propose that the National Archives change its motto from "Littera Scripta Manet" The Written Letter Abides to "What, Me Worry?" befitting it's current lack of data security controls. While many of you this weekend were firing up your barbecues, cooking grilled meats...

Tags: White House, Data, Storage, Social Security, Government, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-05-25

News to know: Salesforce.com; Microsoft; Apple tablet; Google

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Salesforce.com delivers mixed fiscal year outlook: Earnings up, revenue light Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Pop quiz - Which would you choose (Mac vs. PC)? ...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Tablets, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

Blog posts 2009-05-22

National Archives lost 2TB drive from Clinton years

"The nation's record keeper" - the National Archives and Record Administration - has lost a two-terabyte hard drive containing digital records from Bill Clinton's presidency. In a statement, NARA said that it "takes very seriously the loss of an external hard drive that contained copies of...

Tags: Security, Agency, NARA, Records Management, Managerial Accounting, Finance, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-05-21

What’s a wealthy nation spend its money on?

What’s a wealthy nation spend its money on?NOT a clue about China....I guess the author of the story has not read that China has been spending BILLIONS on its massive Military...http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/mar/03/china-speeds-pace-of-military-buildup/http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2009/01/20/china_fears_containment_as_defense_spending_rises_1232443538/Another case of slighted biased media against the United States.In a free country people can buy what they want, when...

Tags: wealthy nation

Discussion threads 2009-01-25

Internet Inauguration: The Interactive Introduction of the Obama Presidency

Watching Barack Obama on television be sworn in as the 44th President of the United States seems so 1960. Particularly when the first-term Illinois senator ascended to the highest office in the land based on a masterful use of every available tool on the Internet, from...

Tags: Coverage, Fox News, Obama Adminstration, Internet, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Corporate Communications, Games, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-01-19

White House email II: Gewirtz responds

Author says National Archives can't be trusted to secure Bush Administration computers, thus Obama staff must treat them like live evidence. by Richard Koman

Tags: White House, David, E-mail, Productivity, Workforce Management, Online Communications, Human Resources, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-01-07