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Submission + - White House: E-mail on Fired Lawyers was Deleted

Submitted by

narramissic

on Thursday April 12, 2007 @02:17PM

narramissic writes: "In another apparent case of 'oops that incriminating e-mail was deleted,' officials for President Bush have claimed that an unknown number of e-mails regarding the firing of eight government lawyers have gone missing. White House spokesperson Scott Stanzel said that the authors of those e-mails may have used accounts maintained by the Republican National Committee to discuss official government business. Here's the rub: The Republican National Committee has a policy of deleting e-mails from its accounts approximately once a month — although e-mails from nonpolitical White House accounts are automatically archived."

Submission + - White House E-mails Deleted

Submitted by kidcharles on Thursday April 12, 2007 @01:27PM

kidcharles writes: The Washington Post reports that in the midst of an investigation by the U.S. Congress into the firing of eight U.S. Attorneys by the Department of Justice, numerous White House e-mails have been lost. Among them are communications from presidential adviser Karl Rove. Parallels are being drawn with the infamous "18 minutes" missing from the Nixon Watergate tapes. Also at issue is the use of Republican National Committee e-mail domains (such as gwb43.com and georgewbush.com) rather than the official White House domain. This is a violation of the Presidential Records Act.

Submission + - GWB43.com -- Now Disappearing

Submitted by CompaniaHill on Thursday April 12, 2007 @12:52PM

CompaniaHill writes: Blogger winstnsmth writes, "With the latest news of RNC hosted email archives being "mishandled" by the White House, I decided to take a trip around the cyberblock to see what's new. To my surprise, I wasn't able to ping gwb43.com."

"The nameservers responsible for giving the definitive answer as to gwb43.com are no longer responding to requests for that domain. The email servers are still there, but I'm not able to pin down the IP for the domain itself. It appears to me that steps are being taken to 'disappear' gwb43.com." Geeky Bonus: Dig query showing no "A" record for the domain.

Submission + - RNC Emails Lost! How believable is that?

Submitted by ionFreeman on Thursday April 12, 2007 @12:00PM

ionFreeman writes: Senator Leahy is suspicious that the RNC could have lost the emails White House Aides sent. But, it seems to me the whole idea was to have those emails unsubpoenable. Why would they be retained? Our clients work pretty hard to retain their emails — it seems like that would be a pretty easy thing to do if you wanted to not do it.

Submission + - RNC "Lost" Emails. Can they be recovered?

Submitted by

meldroc

on Thursday April 12, 2007 @11:34AM

meldroc writes: "The White House, in response to Congressional subpoenas of emails on Republican National Committee servers including gwb43.com, claimed on Wednesday that it had "mishandled" some email accounts used by some two dozen Presidential aides, resulting in the loss of an undetermined number of emails concerning White House business.

Is anyone else seeing the ghost of Rosemary Woods here? This question is for those of you who work in ISPs and other places where you handle a decent amount of email. How likely is it that emails such as the ones in the story can be lost accidentally? How hard it is to "lose" emails deliberately? And assuming that computer forensics gurus can get a hold of those servers, as well as the workstations of certain White House aides (like Karl Rove,) how hard would it be to recover emails that had been "accidentally" deleted, or even deliberately wiped?"

Submission + - RNC email server problems

Submitted by yoyoq on Thursday April 12, 2007 @10:13AM

yoyoq writes: RNC email server problems lead to the loss of many emails involved with the US Attorney purge. Any one able to help them find the lost emails? Its an AP story so its probably available many places, but here's one place http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/170621 73.htm

Submission + - Florida University forced To Idolize Jeb Bush

Submitted by Ariastis on Wednesday April 11, 2007 @04:59PM

Ariastis writes: Two weeks ago, the University of Florida voted to deny Jeb Bush an honorary degree. By a 38-28 vote, the faculty Senate rejected the former governor's nomination, citing concerns about some of Bush's education initiatives, including his dismantling of affirmative action programs in the state. Upset by this lack of Jeb Bush adoration, the conservative-controlled House Schools & Learning Council voted yesterday to force the university to rename its education school the Jeb Bush College of Education.

Submission + - What's not standard, and in your geek tool kit?

Submitted by Kwiik on Wednesday January 10, 2007 @11:13PM

Kwiik writes: Aside from the standard screw drivers, multi tools, flash lights, collapsible chopsticks, bootable usb drives with linux, spyware software/hijackthis etc. what do you have in your tool kit? What do you have for repairing software, versus repairing hardware? Do you have a separate tool kit for Windows, Linux and OS-X? What do you recommend for a hardware tech/contracter getting started on his own and stepping away from the world of IT powerhouses? I'm trying to find "one of those things" that will make a client go "wow", and he'll know he found the right tech.

Submission + - NASA to build moon base

Submitted by DaemonDazz on Tuesday December 05, 2006 @05:04PM

DaemonDazz writes: According to a story run on the Australian ABC news site, NASA is planning to start building a permanently occupied base on the moon by 2020. From the article (http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200612/s1804 286.htm):

"NASA has announced it plans to build a permanently occupied base on the moon, most likely at the lunar north pole.

The habitat will serve as a science outpost as well as a testbed for technologies needed for future travel to Mars and construction will follow a series of flights to the moon scheduled to begin by 2020."

and

"NASA is not expecting a budget increase to pay for the program.

Rather, it will transition funds currently being used to support the space shuttle into the moon exploration program as the shuttle fleet is phased out.

The shuttles are set to retire in 2010 and by that time NASA plans to have finished building the space station, leaving the moon initiative as a successor to both programs."

The press release is here: http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2006/dec/HQ_06361_ ESMD_Lunar_Architecture.html

Submission + - PostgreSQL 8.2 Released

Submitted by on Tuesday December 05, 2006 @03:48PM

An anonymous reader writes: With the winter holidays approaching, the developers of PostgreSQL have released version 8.2 as a present to us all. Tests really do prove that this is a performance release. With this release will PostgreSQL finally shed it's slow reputation? PostgreSQL 8.2 is trouncing MySQL with query optimization improvements, indexing without blocking INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE operations, and more...

Yet how does it compare to the big boys, Oracle and DB2? This release of PostgreSQL it is still missing SQL:2003 Window Functions so critical in business reporting. That means Oracle and DB2 still reign supreme in the OLAP/Data warehouse market. Even without many of the SQL:2003 features, this is good release. Get PostgreSQL 8.2 and take it for a spin!

Submission + - US to give you a risk rating...

Submitted by cayenne8 on Tuesday December 05, 2006 @03:41PM

cayenne8 writes: It looks like the Dept. of Homeland security is at it again. This time, a data mining system, used to evalute you the air passenger as to your security risk, and give you a rating. You think you have problems with a faulty credit score? Wait till you get a faulty risk assessment rating...because you cannot legally find out what your rating is according to the article about the new Automated Targeting System.

"The Automated Targeting System (ATS) is a data-mining system that will let the agency create "risk assessments" of tens of millions of travelers. The information will be held for 40 years, and even U.S. citizens will have no right to view those risk assessments. "

Submission + - US must give up civil rights to protect freedoms?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 05, 2006 @03:37PM

An anonymous reader writes: It seems non-intuitive that Retired U.S. Army Gen. Carl Stiner says Americans may have to give up civil liberties in order to win the war on terror which is necessary to protect our freedoms. Article requires free registration, bugmenot works. From the article: "Retired U.S. Army Gen. Carl Stiner says Americans might have to give up some civil rights if they want to win the 'war on terrorism.' However, he did not name any specific rights that might need to be given up." "America has much at stake, including access to oil, its dominant position in the world, cherished freedoms, and a way of life that could vanish if the United States does not prevail, Stiner said."

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