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Obama Staffers Followed Palin's Email Lead On Inauguration Day
theodp writes "Using Yahoo's free e-mail service to conduct government business was good enough for Sarah Palin. And now the Washington Times reports that Obama staffers turned to Gmail on Inauguration Day to conduct their business. Those wishing to contact members of the incoming Obama administration were instructed to contact staffers at wh.LASTNAME@gmail.com until official White House e-mail addresses became available."
Thank god Obama would never use a Slashdot account to keep in touch, that would be ludicrous!
Btw, how about lunch @ 12.30pm?
Yes, email sent to gmail addresses is insecure, unlike email sent to regular whitehouse.gov addresses, which is magically encrypted by the NSA's army of highly trained ninja code monkeys as it leaves the senders' machines.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
Can anyone confirm that Mr. Azzup is a staffer? :o)
It's a close relative of slashdot, dedicated to typo's.
They should just start calling gmail, "Goverment" Mail instead of "Google" mail.
"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy - Benjamin Franklin"
I'm hoping that was irony, but on Slashdot, I know it probably wasn't. Sigh.
Also, none of them is likely to be using the password "popcorn". They use the more secure p0pc0rn, instead.
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
http://dotslash.net/ doesn't seem to have many typos.
oh, right, almost forgot the rick roll: http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=cj7oy4Q2Rd8&feature=related
Typically when a Dem gets into hot water, it also has a half dozen strippers in it.
The dangers of knowledge trigger emotional distress in human beings.
The problem with Palin's Yahoo use is that it was secret, for one, and second that the emails involved govt. business but weren't recorded anywhere. So, as long as the mails sent and received using Gmail are subsequently archived somewhere, there's no problem. Whether they will be? Who knows.
I agree - these Obama stories are pretty stupid. I'm proposing the tag 'obamagasm' for stories like this in the future.
Love sees no species.
Why would Bush have anything to hide? Only criminals require privacy.
Congratulations, you've reached a level of irony we thought to be unattainable.
No I haven't, is it pants?
MABASPLOOM!
Slashdot.... where naivete meets rampant paranoia and cynicism.
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I'm sorry about your guy not winning.
"I wonder what kind of ads showed up next to White House emails concerning political appointments?"
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Anyone who didn't see that one coming from a million miles away deserves a shot in the balls.
Try not to take me more seriously than I take myself.
How is this funny? It's more informative. It's highlighting the doublestandard that exists on this site for Bush v. Obama, or more generally Republicans v. Democrats.
Look at the article -- the Republicans use Yahoo!, the Democrats use Google. Of course /. comes out in favour of the Democrats when there's such a clear and significant issue dividing them!
By the way, isn't a majority endorsing the Democrat position an accurate reflection of opinion in the USA as a whole? Maybe they should put it to a vote or something to find out.
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Why should I trust politifact.com? They can't even add! (7+1+14+488=500? Not when I went to school!)
Apparently, you missed the meaning of the word "about" in school too.
"PolitiFact has compiled about 500 promises that Barack Obama made..."
No I haven't, is it pants?
Is the earth flat?