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IT politics killed white house email project: IT politics killed White House email projectDefective By DesignI think the whole IDEA was to have a sloppy, impossible to manage system! How ironic, the MOMENT they need critical emails, they just "happened" to have been deleted, and not archived, because you have minimum wage types hand filing emails, and...; Tags: information technology, e-mail, White House, RNC; Discussion threads 2008-05-06
IT politics killed white house email project: Data archiving in the White House is a serious business mandated by the Presidential Records Act of 1978, which was passed following the Watergate scandal. The Act requires the White House to maintain an historical archive of its activities, policies, and decisions. Despite...; Tags: Information Technology, White House, Act, E-mail, Online Communications, Michael Krigsman; Blog posts 2008-05-06
Mexican officials nabs BlackBerries: If you were the lead press person for a Mexican Delegation visit with President Bush, what would you do when you noticed that all of the White House staff in the meeting had deposited their BlackBerries on a table outside the hotel meeting room? Grab those...; Tags: U.S. Secret Service, Phone, White House, Official, RIM BlackBerry, Handhelds, Hardware, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-04-25
Chertoff promises cybersecurity Manhattan Project: Chertoff promises cybersecurity Manhattan ProjectSo What's The Rush?"Seven and a half years after 9/11, the Bush Administration is ready to take cybersecurty seriously."And if they do as good a job as the Census Bureau has done with computers systems (http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=674)...we'll all be much safer for it...right?RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!! ;-)Feds...; Tags: Government, SECURITY, cybersecurity, White House, Chertoff, Manhattan Project; Discussion threads 2008-04-09
white house taps Wiki entrepreneur to fight cyberattacks: White House taps Wiki entrepreneur to fight cyberattacksExperience would suggest......that making something inconvenient is enough to make the vast majority not want to try, unless it's very important to them this strategy seem to work particularly well for a certain large software vendor as well. Of course, if there's...; Tags: Entrepreneurship, Hacking, SECURITY, cyberattack, White House, Wiki; Discussion threads 2008-03-20

white house taps Wiki entrepreneur to fight cyberattacks: Silicon Valley entrepreneur Rod A. Beckstrom has been tapped to join the Bush Administration to help secure federal networks against attack, the Post reported today. Beckstrom most recently founded Twiki.net, an enterprise Wiki support company, and previously created CATS Software and Mergent Systems. He's also coauthor of a...; Tags: White House, U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, Cyberattack, Post Story, Hacking, Wiki, Viruses And Worms, Security, Online Communications, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-03-20
House nixes telecom immunity, votes to investigate abuses: The House just passed a FISA bill without immunity for telecom companies! The White House is pissed off: The White House circulated a statement after the vote calling it a "a significant step backward in defending our country against terrorism" that was...; Tags: White House, Immunity, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-03-14
White+House+official+details+email+hole: White+House+official+details+email+hole"that smacks of willful violation of laws"What a surprise! That has been th MO of this band of Nazis for the past 7+ years.I'm shocked that we have any Constitution left.the Wite House was fiscally responsible[i]But CIO Theresa Payton canceled the new system in 2006 because it would have "required...; Tags: Workforce management, details email hole, official details email hole, White House, administration, e-mail; Discussion threads 2008-02-27
white house official details email hole: The White House was running a "primitive" email archiving system with a high risk of losing data, a computer expert who worked on the system told the House Oversight Committee. In a memo to committee members PDF, Congressional staffers detailed a mind-boggling scenario that smacks of willful violation of...; Tags: White House, E-mail Archiving, E-mail, Online Communications, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-02-27
Tech idiocy in the white house: Not only has the White House lost 5 million emails - or not, they aren't sure - vital White House emails have for years been run through an insecure 12-man ISP in Chattanooga Tennessee. Why? Because our laws around Presidential records preservation are at odds with other laws against partisan...; Tags: Internet, White House, IT Team, E-mail, Online Communications, Robin Harris; Blog posts 2008-02-05
Debate over telecom immunity starts anew: So the debate is on. Should telcom companies get legal immunity for assisting America's intelligence apparatus with warrantless wiretaps, or not? The Senate took up the question Wednesday and veep Dick Cheney was on hand to make the administration's vociferous argument, The Washington Post reports. Majority Leader...; Tags: White House, Administration, U.S. Congress, Immunity, U.S. Senate, ALCU, Telephony, Workforce Management, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking, Human Resources, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-01-23
white house, Congress squabble over missing emails: White House, Congress squabble over missing emailsRE: White House, Congress squabble over missing emailsThis is terrible. I think we will know what was in the emails very soon.Criminal intent or negligenceIt's one or the other. They should just pick one so we can get on with the prosecution of...; Tags: White House, e-mail, U.S. Congress; Discussion threads 2008-01-20
white house, Congress squabble over missing emails: A 2005 White House survey found that no email had been archived on 473 days for such offices as the Executive Office of the President and the Vice President's office, according to a summary of the report released by Rep. Harvey Waxman (D-CA). Waxman said he released the results of...; Tags: White House, U.S. Congress, Harvey Waxman, CREW, E-mail, Online Communications, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-01-20
Dems: white house fudged climate change data: Dems: White House fudged climate change dataHmmm Pot calling Kettle Black?And, the democrats have been doing *what* with their data?Let's see worst case earliest Climate Change Catastrophe in 50 years? or more?Terrorists attacking America... More probable more sooner...Gasoline to get to and from work at $5 a gallon because of...; Tags: climate change data, Dems, White House; Discussion threads 2007-12-11
Dems: white house fudged climate change data: Democrats charged the White House with tampering with scientists, saying climate change research was "manipulated" to mislead the public about the seriousness of the issue, Reuters reports. "The Bush administration has engaged in a systematic effort to manipulate climate change science and mislead policymakers and the public...; Tags: White House, Climate, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2007-12-10
white house ordered to back up e-mail: White House ordered to back up e-mailACLU learns of third 'secret' torture memo from GonzalesThis will help some secrets come out. This article goes into a specific example.[b]http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/november2007/071107_b_Gonzales.htm[/b]Deleted emailsIf CREW really wants the deleted emails, I can send them the 1.7 million spams sent to me during 'his term' and...; Tags: King George Bush, government, American Civil Liberties Union, e-mail, White House, U.S. Government; Discussion threads 2007-11-13
white house shared docs in exchange for telecom immunity: White House shared docs in exchange for telecom immunityThe way I see it......if a government lawyer drafts an opinion which is acted on by the officials he is advising and is subsequently challenged, he's the one who should have to defend it in court or wherever else.I figure it's the...; Tags: Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, telecom immunity, White House, telecommunications; Discussion threads 2007-10-25
white house censors global warming testimony...yawn: If Congress really wanted to hear the truth about global warming and is health effects, they'd invite testimony from somebody whose paycheck is not signed by President George W. Bush. Instead they heard from the head of the Federal Center for Disease Control. Well, they heard a little...; Tags: Testimony, White House, Global Warming, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2007-10-24
House passes patent reform, as white house voices objections: House passes patent reform, as White House voices objectionsThe path to sanitydoes not exist for our elected bought and paid for public officials.Why should they destroy the class within which they live? That live off the fat of the land including bribes as opposed to actual productive work.RE: House passes...; Tags: voices objection, White House, patent; Discussion threads 2007-09-09
House passes patent reform, as white house voices objections: The House of Representatives handed the technology industry a big win by passing the Patent Reform Act. The bill changes the way damages for patent infringement are calculated, InfoWorld reports. Under the current scheme, damages are calculated based on the value of the entire product containing the infringing invention....; Tags: Damage, Patent, Patent Infringement, White House, MP3, ZDNet Government; Blog posts 2007-09-09