Re: Staff Finds White House in the Technological Dark Ages

"William Black" <william.black@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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:One major problem is going to be security.
:

Always a problem.

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:I read somewhere that Obama is going to use some sort of Blackberry device
:as a secure terminal.
:

News to me. I suspect someone is confused.

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:Having seen one, who's going to issue the appropriate certification saying
:it's secure and Tempest tested?
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If your "read somewhere" is true, that would be NSA.

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:The British government issues a list of equipment and software they allow
:people to use to process classified material. I think the only Micro$oft
:product on it is Windows NT, the rest must either have security holes or
:haven't been properly tested yet.
:

I suspect the latter, what with governments being so slow on these
things and all.

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:The only Blackberry system mentioned is only allowed to process RESTRICTED
:information, a classification the US doesn't use and is roughly equivalent
:to 'FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY'.
:

I don't know that 'UK Restricted' is even treated that high. How it
gets treated is determined by contract when it's turned over to us.

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:The list is at
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:http://www.cesg.gov.uk/publications/media/directory.pdf
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:It's about 4 megs.
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They seem a bit schizophrenic. They approve only NT, yet have other
products that they approve that only run on other versions of Windows.

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