Tag: WHITEHOUSE

If you've visited WhiteHouse.gov since its change of ownership back in 2009 you'll hopefully have noticed some very cool changes. The site itself was jazzed up -- CHANGE! -- and, as best befits this 'information age', accessibility has been greatly improved for all citizens and denizens of the USA. What you may not have noticed, however, is that the entire site runs on a customized version of ...

Yes, details so super-secret that the White House has decided to declassify and disclose them! The WSJ is reporting on the White House's new Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI), a program intended to shore up the U.S. Internet defenses. The main reason for declassification seems to be due to privacy concerns -- and as always with improved security, you're going to lose a ...

The Obama administration has taken a fresh, new approach to lobbying federal legislators about health insurance laws, and it comes in the form of the Twitter hashtag #hc09. Obama's new Tweet your Senator page provides a pre-built health insurance-related tweet directed toward one of your Senators, based on your ZIP code. Each time you hit the big blue Tweet button, a Senator will be randomly ...

So apparently White House staffers routinely uses email accounts set up by the Republican National Committee to send important communications. Nothing wrong with that, right? Well, apparently there is. It turns out that White House staffers are required by law to use government email addresses in order to preserve those communications. And so when some of the emails sent using the RNC addresses ...