The White House Finally Got Color Printers (gizmodo.com)

An anonymous reader quotes an article on Gizmodo: Everyone loves an upgrade -- even POTUS. The New York Times reports that the White House has recently undergone a technological transformation, though it may not sound too impressive to many of us: Its employees are now equipped with modern laptops, iPhones and even... color printers. [...] Employees have new computers with "fast, solid-state drives and modern processors," according to the newspaper, along with color printers. There's a new phone system and many staff now tote iPhones. The Wi-Fi has been upgraded, so it's now fast enough to live-stream video. And security has been increased too, with a new software system for managing visitors and a chip-based card system which is used by staffers instead of passwords.

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Re:A chip based card system

[SlaveToTheGrind]

It's chip and PIN -- not as bad as the summary made it sound.

Re:Where was the hardware made?

[__aaclcg7560]

Queue the "Opps I lost the emails" v2.0.

I doubt that will ever happen again after the Bush Administration lost 22 million emails.

The Bush White House email controversy surfaced in 2007 during the controversy involving the dismissal of eight U.S. attorneys. Congressional requests for administration documents while investigating the dismissals of the U.S. attorneys required the Bush administration to reveal that not all internal White House emails were available, because they were sent via a non-government domain hosted on an email server not controlled by the federal government. Conducting governmental business in this manner is a possible violation of the Presidential Records Act of 1978, and the Hatch Act. Over 5 million emails may have been lost. Greg Palast claims to have come up with 500 of the Karl Rove emails, leading to damaging allegations. In 2009, it was announced that as many as 22 million emails may have been lost.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_White_House_email_controversy

Re:Keep believing that. . .

[Anonymous Coward]

. . . . as there are plenty of examples of classified, air-gapped systems leaking data to unclassified systems.

Like when Hillary Clinton told her staff to remove the classified label from a document and send it to her by an insecure system?

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/st...

http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/08/...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

Re:Will they trash it if a Republican wins?

[Etcetera]

Yeah, that turned out to be a myth. I'm sure some pranks happened, but relatively little, compared to the normal and routine wear and tear in offices.

Well, except not: http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d02360.pdf

Damage, theft, vandalism, and pranks occurred in the White House
complex during the 2001 presidential transition. Incidents such as the
removal of keys from computer keyboards; the theft of various items; the
leaving of certain voice mail messages, signs, and written messages; and
the placing of glue on desk drawers clearly were intentional acts. However,
it was unknown whether other observations, such as broken furniture,
were the result of intentional acts, when and how they occurred, or who
may have been responsible for them.