If you go to most facilities of Samsung corporation which produces many of gadgets these boys are so fond of, there is no outside connection to Internet. Only well-monitored intranet. I am sure WH has bigger secrets to keep than Samsung in terms of importance. You cannot causally chat over Internet or do e-mail. If you do, you are an easy prey to trained hackers in Russia or China. This is not about being behind time.
If they want to have a more casual life-style, resign from the current job at WH. Then they will do all computer stuffs they want.
I am afraid these guys would casually pass on top secrets knowingly or unknowingly. Liberals have track record of lax sense of security. Maybe that characterization is too charitable. "Casual disregard" is a more apt expression, I think.
The article reminds us a bunch of rookies are answering the phones at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue when bad things happen.
Its called Operational Security, get used to it.. I can imagine Obama’s kids slipping and taking pictures around the White House, posting it on Facebook, and exposing national secrets or security.
Awww-—too bad. They won’t be able to access porn or play WOW at work.
It's the White House, and no matter how much you'd like to update that facebook page or send a happy message to your friends on myspace.com, there's certain things you can't do.
Unlike when you had the internship at Cosmopolitan, the matters that you're dealing with are closely held secrets with ramifications if they fall into the hands of our enemies.
Sorry, but it's time to join the big boys and get to work.
Owl_Eagle
“When the stock market crashed,
Franklin Roosevelt got on the television
and didn’t just talk about
the princes of greed, he said,
‘Look, here’s what happened.’"
-Slow Joe Biden
It comes from being spoiled consequence-free live for me in the moment adolescents with no thought of the big picture. To say they feel they’ve gone to the computer stone age says they are dangerously ignorant about security.
spoiled little Techies... will need Soros to help bring them up to this century. Welcome to working in the Gov’t, brats!
I bet they will use WH funds to make new programs, like the Clintoons, that will have the data fed to DNC systems to allow them to maintain their constant campaigning but will constitute a significant breach in our Nation's security.
Remember what the DRM found out Palin had used an outside email account from her office?
Kornbult is uninformed or biased. Probably both.
These idiots have never had a real job. Facebook and nearly every other thing is blocked in the corporate world. We - America - are screwed.
You mean Windows XP? Boy talk about your stone age technology systems. Nobody uses that anymore.
What does that mean in 21st-century terms? No Facebook to communicate with supporters. No outside e-mail log-ins. No instant messaging. Hard adjustments for a staff that helped sweep Obama to power through, among other things, relentless online social networking.
Security & Convenience - the two are INVERSELY related.
The WH holds the best secrets on the planet. I want them inconvienced.
I don’t think casual disregard even comes close.
They vary from “criminal negligence” all the way up to “intentional disregard”.
The banking system is imploding, the deficit is exploding, the Middle East is boiling, and these idiots are worried about access to Facebook?!!
And of course there is no one there who even knows, or cares, that using government facilities for political activities is against the law..
‘The team members, accustomed to working on Macintoshes...’
There’s your problem.
How quickly they forget how the Clinton administration intent purposefully downgraded the White House telephone system so as NOT to be able to trace a call back to a specific extension.
They didn't want to have data that could be subpoenaed that might indicate that someone in the White House had information or made a call or knew something that the White House could deny.
They intentionally wanted low tech as part of their plausible deniability.
-PJ