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The White House Sends an Invitation: PCAST Meeting Aug. 6 and 7
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| PCAST is a group of scientists and engineers who advise the President and the
| Office of the President, providing policy recommendations. The purpose of the
| meeting is to set priorities for the coming year.
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| I know many of you are stakeholders, CEOs and executives of companies and
| leaders and contributors to software projects, but you don't have to be: the
| general public can contribute also. I'd so dearly love to go and speak about
| FOSS, but I don't feel it would be wise, due to the death threat situation,
| but you can go and represent yourself. And it will be streamed. There is even
| an opportunity to send written comments at any time. I'll give you the
| details in a moment, but if you've ever complained that the government is
| clueless about tech and FOSS, this is your opportunity to contribute in a
| positive way.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20090731112546220
Recent:
Chinese hack into White House network
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| Chinese hackers have penetrated the White House computer network on multiple
| occasions, and obtained e-mails between government officials, a senior US
| official told the Financial Times.
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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2931c542-ac35-11dd-bf71-000077b07658,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2F2931c542-ac35-11dd-bf71-000077b07658.html%3Fnclick_check%3D1&_i_referer=&nclick_check=1
Related:
Expert: White House Negligent on E-Mail
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| The White House e-mail troubles began in 2002 with a decision to upgrade
| electronic message capabilities and move from Lotus Notes to Microsoft
| Exchange.
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| Prior to launching Microsoft Exchange for e-mail, there should have been
| full-scale testing of an archiving system, e-mail experts said. In addition,
| both the existing archiving system and a new one should have run at the same
| time until the new system was fully proven.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080303/white_house_e_mail.html?.v=1
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