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- Canadaa, on 11/07/2008, -2/+38It was the guy below me... he done it!
- inactive, on 11/07/2008, -1/+32Looks like someone really wants to find out what Bush has been up to
- BluBerryGTI, on 11/08/2008, -3/+29we need to step up or computer skills in the US
- evilesttoast, on 11/08/2008, -0/+25Exactly what the hacker would have said...
- 142TeeTH, on 11/08/2008, -2/+27Grammar skills as well.
- inactive, on 11/08/2008, -2/+21Looks like another attempt by Karl Rove to "misplace" some emails.
- MacBookForMe, on 11/08/2008, -2/+17These are only excuses not to reveal their disappeared emails...
- inactive, on 11/08/2008, -0/+12Or someone wants to find out if a black president need penis enlargement too?
- allfatherblack, on 11/08/2008, -0/+10OH MY GOD people are trying to hack government computers!?!?!?! ALERT THE MEDI... oh wait, someone already did.
- rald84, on 11/08/2008, -0/+7yeah sounds like they heard about the obama and mccain hacks and thought "OMFG perfect timing"
- mississippiman, on 11/08/2008, -1/+8Their not even a real country anyway...
- darienphoenix, on 11/08/2008, -2/+9At least they can spell.
- Brian48216, on 11/08/2008, -1/+7Exactly how is this a surprise?
I'd imagine every government computer is being attacked every freaking minute by either from someone overseas, or someone bored in the US. - wontstoptalking, on 11/08/2008, -1/+7FW:FW:FW:FW:FW:FW:FW:FW:FW: LOOK AT OBAMA'S CUTE PUPPY!
- ScottoGato, on 11/08/2008, -2/+8Blame Canadaa!
- Bith8654, on 11/08/2008, -0/+5People don't seem to like the whole "shameless walking billboard" approach, you should probably stop.
- inactive, on 11/08/2008, -0/+4didn't realize Dick Cheney's pterodactyl porn collection was of a global interest
- twiztidsinz, on 11/08/2008, -2/+6Damnit Chloe, hurry up!!
- TheSabre, on 11/08/2008, -0/+3That article is about the DHS, not the White House's IT department. Every agency has their own IT departments and just about all 20+ intelligence branches have cybersecurity teams like this DHS one. The White House's email isn't monitored by the DHS. Sure, the DHS would help investigate a cyber attack, but it wouldn't take pre-emptive measures to secure the WH systems. That's what the WH IT staff is for.
- Truedirt, on 11/08/2008, -5/+8What! Are the Chinese been living in a different planet? With the damages done to the U.S. economy by eight years of Bush, I do not think there is any secret worth stealing in the White House.
- elister, on 11/08/2008, -0/+3Sorry, heres the link.
http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/bush-lost- ...
"One of the more vocal critics of the White House's e-mail-retention policies is Steven McDevitt, who was a senior official in the White House IT shop from September 2002 until he left in disgust in October 2006. He points out what would be obvious to anyone with IT experience: the system wasn't especially reliable or tamper-proof."
He is talking in regards to the email system, one of many critical systems he managed. So basically, the White House had at least one member of the IT staff who quit, later the maintenance of *some* of these systems were contracted out. - kd1s, on 11/08/2008, -0/+3Please, who needs to attack the White House email system when the ***** accidentally included journalist Greg Palast in email CC's.
- poidh, on 11/08/2008, -1/+3I read this story a few days ago. Apparently it was down to the Chinese or the Russians. So no surprise there.
They are allowed to behave like that, but the West isn't. Say goodbye to the pussy West. - feureau, on 11/08/2008, -1/+3I accidentally the White Hourse?
- iancgi, on 11/08/2008, -0/+2Using their greatest weapon against them. We are becoming to smart for them.
What now? - Fallout911, on 11/08/2008, -1/+3That thong thong thong thong thong!
- autologica, on 11/08/2008, -2/+4These comments suck.
- inactive, on 11/08/2008, -1/+3They prob have Cisco...they need to switch to Juniper :)
- tomis, on 11/09/2008, -0/+1Windows servers for the lose?
- fletchsd, on 11/08/2008, -0/+1WH and other parts of government use multiple lines of defenses. Secure Computing Sidewinders, in house solutions, Cisco, etc, etc, etc.
- allfatherblack, on 11/08/2008, -2/+3The same pussy-West that tells Guatanamo Bay prisoners that the sound of women screaming in the background is the sound of American soldiers raping their wives and daughters? The same ones that then rape the prisoner?
Youre daft if you think America doesnt match any other country in its evil deeds. Every empire will fall, but theres a good chance that this ones only going down by either world war or transformation into something else. So that goodbye youre offering, will probably either turn out to be "goodbye pussy West, and the rest of the world" or, more likely, "Hello pussy West and welcome to the unified government of Earths inhabitants"
But really, youre ***** retarded if you think "the West" is full of pussies. I dont see any other country in this day and age expressing the will to and following through with the manipulation of every other country on this planet. The reason you cant see the cajones America has is because your view is obscured by our fowl-smelling man-bag.
Yes Im an American, but Im not defending America. I just call it like I see it. - acwoo, on 11/08/2008, -1/+2Maybe the Chinese can find all those lost email archives and maybe they can hack gwb43.com and the other sites run by smarttechcorp.net and find all the official email that can't be found. Heck they might even figure out how the Ohio vote was manipulated in 2004.
- elister, on 11/08/2008, -1/+2Maybe they shouldn't have replaced their in house professional IT staff and out sourced it to a bunch of cronies.
PS
http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?n ... - inajeep, on 11/08/2008, -0/+1If they stayed with the previous email system they'd most likely have been safe and we'd have an archive of their emails.
http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/bush-lost- ... - TheSabre, on 11/08/2008, -0/+1Which is pretty standard practice. General Dynamics (for whom I've worked in the past designing systems for Naval warfare command; just to give some idea that I am familiar with this topic), Booz Allen Hamilton, Bearing Point, Mitre, CACI, and so on do A LOT of IT work for the federal government from the White House to Congress to the Supreme Court. It's not like the administration did anything out of the ordinary by bringing in a company to assist in the operations and maintenance.
Maybe I just don't understand your point of "Maybe they shouldn't have replaced the IT staff with cronies". They wouldn't have had to replace him if he didn't leave. Yes, he pointed out obvious things and, yes, the Administration should have been more open to accepting some of his ideas, but that's how government IT works. It's very political and bureaucratic. I'm not saying that this makes it okay, but it certainly makes it expected and these situations aren't unique to this particular Administration or White House.
Government IT is a tricky thing, but calling BAH or some contractor a "crony" is just naive. In the past 10 years, government procurement has become VERY heavily scrutinized internally by Congress, GAO, IGs, etc. and externally by the Washington Post, NY Times, and so on. Contract awarding is pretty fair and there are many Congressional and GAO hoops to jump through when giving out a contract.
Just my $0.02. Feel free to disagree, but if you do, can you please comment more on how contracting out the work makes any difference to this? How would life have been better if the work remained in-house? - overtoke, on 11/08/2008, -1/+2inside job. they are deleting more emails.
- fletchsd, on 11/08/2008, -0/+0Looks like overtime for whoever is going to be investigating this. Lots of log file parsing and forensics.
- Fallout911, on 11/08/2008, -3/+3It was probably Bush trying to use a Mac.
- poidh, on 11/09/2008, -1/+1"I'm going to make up a bunch of ***** about Guantanamo Bay then post it on the internet".
- pl0x, on 11/08/2008, -0/+0Epic Win!
- credential101, on 11/08/2008, -2/+1Digg nerds, get on top of this right now!
- Ph03N1X418, on 11/08/2008, -3/+2It was me, sorry...
Dubya's got quite the porn collection, though...it was worth it - Sil369, on 11/08/2008, -3/+2i saw wontstoptalking do it
- Hyst3ria, on 11/08/2008, -5/+3Ron Paul strikes again!
- vallver, on 11/08/2008, -5/+1wasn't me
- HotSaucePanCake, on 11/08/2008, -6/+2Some one needs Cisco...
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