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  • June 2008

    • Separation of Powers? Leave Prez's BlackBerry Out of It

      Weekly Standard  |  Jun 9, 08 4:28 PM CDT

      Separation of Powers? Leave Prez's BlackBerry Out of It

      (Newser) - The 44th president will almost certainly kick off his term by quitting email cold turkey, Jamie Sneider writes in the Weekly Standard . With executive-branch communication subject to public-disclosure law, President Bush hasn't send a single message, the former White House aide says—a coping mechanism that "fails to strike the right balance." More »

  • May 2008

    • Comcast Hackers: Company Dismissed Our Warning

      Wired  |  May 30, 08 3:10 PM CDT

      Comcast Hackers: Company Dismissed Our Warning

      (Newser) - Two teens who wrested control of Comcast’s homepage and webmail for 5 hours yesterday say they warned the company before the hijacking but were brushed off. In an interview with Wired , the two anonymous teens were triumphant about their assault on the ISP but expected to be arrested. “I wish I was a minor right now because this is going to be really bad,” said 19-year-old Defiant. More »

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      Internet  • email  • Comcast  • hackers  • high-tech security

    • Yes On Phones, No On Talking: Poll

      PC World  |  May 23, 08 4:30 PM CDT

      Yes On Phones, No On Talking: Poll

      (Newser) - Americans want wireless service on airplanes, but not voice calls, PC World reports. A survey finds 60% would use silent features like texting and email, but 74% think that no matter what, conversations shouldn’t be allowed. Americans "don't want to be forced to listen to the conversation of the passenger sitting next to them," a pollster says. More »

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      cell phones  • privacy  • airplane  • email  • wireless service  • texting  • inflight

    • Web, Key in Obama's Rise, Twists Public Views of Him

      Politico  |  May 22, 08 3:32 PM CDT

      Web, Key in Obama's Rise, Twists Public Views of Him

      (Newser) - Barack Obama built his candidacy on the internet, but now the wild web is his biggest problem, Politico reports. A nigh-unstoppable wave of viral e-mails continue to spread false information about the candidate—and it’s working. One in 10 voters still believes Obama is a Muslim, and many quote the fake “facts” found in these e-mails. More »

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      Barack Obama  • email  • Muslim  • smear campaign

    • Secret Service Bosses Shared Racist Jokes

      New York Times  |  May 10, 08 11:45 AM CDT

      Secret Service Bosses Shared Racist Jokes

      (Newser) - Secret Service supervisors exchanged racist remarks in emails made public yesterday in a lawsuit filed by black agents, the New York Times reports. The messages were shared between at least 20 top agents between 2003 and 2005. One anecdote jokes about assassinating Jesse Jackson. And, according to the lawsuit, the head of the Presidential Protective Detail sent a crude joke about interracial sex to a colleague. More »

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      racism  • email  • discrimination  • Jesse Jackson  • Secret Service  • racist

    • Crucial White House Emails Remain Lost

      Washington Post  |  May 7, 08 10:57 AM CDT

      Crucial White House Emails Remain Lost

      (Newser) - White House emails from March-September 2003—the first few months of the Iraq invasion—still have not been found, the Washington Post reports. An advocacy group is suing for the release of the emails, and federal law requires such high-level communications be preserved. Officials, still searching, say the data might have been mislabeled, and could yet be retrieved from disaster-recovery tapes. More »

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      Iraq war  • White House  • email  • disaster recovery  • servers

    • Spam, Curse of Web, Turns 30

      Washington Post  |  May 3, 08 11:06 AM CDT

      Spam, Curse of Web, Turns 30

      (Newser) - Spam turns 30 today, but don't break out the champagne just yet: The junk e-mail is as healthy as ever, frustrating tech experts desperate to blow out its candles. It all started on May 3, 1978, with a pitch for a new computer on a government-run precursor to the Internet. Even then, the reaction was fierce, the Washington Post says. More »

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      Internet  • email  • Bill Gates  • spam

  • April 2008

    • Email Mining Software No Slam-Dunk

      Wall Street Journal  |  Apr 21, 08 7:31 PM CDT

      Email Mining Software No Slam-Dunk

      (Newser) - Software that allows co-workers to share customer and client information without the initial contact's explicit permission is catching on, overcoming worries about privacy that initially kept the applications from gaining traction, the Wall Street Journal reports. One exec who saw "a very harsh reaction from people who viewed it as a Big Brother-type system" at his previous job is having less trouble this time around. More »

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      privacy  • email  • software

  • February 2008

    • Do We Need A New, Safer Internet?

      Ars Technica  |  Feb 29, 08 12:35 PM CST

      Do We Need A New, Safer Internet?

      (Newser) - Online debate exploded after former FBI agent Patrick Dempsey said Wednesday that a second, safer Internet is needed. "The same positives that the Internet provides for information sharing, also create negatives in terms of ‘bringing to task' those that wish to use the Internet for illicit purposes," wrote Dempsey. But Nate Anderson in Ars Technica argues security and accountability are software and human problems, not Internet ones. More »

    • Dems' Advice on Reading: 'Blah Blah Blah'

      Washington Post  |  Feb 28, 08 5:24 PM CST

      Dems' Advice on Reading: 'Blah Blah Blah'

      (Newser) - Your Democratic congressional representative may do well to avoid the advice from Nancy Pelosi's office regarding “Read Across America” day next Monday, writes Washington Post blogger Mary Ann Akers. An email on how to deal with the big day urges Dems to stress the damage done to education programs by Bush—then offers these words on the importance of reading: "blah, blah, blah, blah." More »

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      Nancy Pelosi  • email  • reading

    • BlackBerry Service Down in US and Canada

      PC World  |  Feb 11, 08 6:45 PM CST

      BlackBerry Service Down in US and Canada

      (Newser) - Blackberry's wireless service is down across the US and Canada today, PC World reports. Blackberry-maker Research in Motion, at a loss to explain the outage, first reported it at 3:30 p.m. EST and called the outage "ongoing." Only half of Blackberries are currently without email, RIM added. More »

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      cell phones  • email  • Wi-Fi  • BlackBerry  • Research In Motion

    • Europe Now Spam King

      Ars Technica  |  Feb 6, 08 5:17 PM CST

      Europe Now Spam King

      (Newser) - More spam is sent from Europe than any other continent, Ars Technica reports. Symantec systems’ latest “State of Spam” report said that European IP addresses are now responsible for 44% of all junk emails sent. Only three months ago, North America produced 15% more of the world’s spam than Europe. More »

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      Europe  • email  • broadband Internet  • spam  • Symantec

  • January 2008

    • Mistake Wipes Out 14,000 Email Accounts

      Associated Press  |  Jan 25, 08 12:34 AM CST

      Mistake Wipes Out 14,000 Email Accounts

      (Newser) - Embarrassed executives at Charter Communications have given $50 credits to each of 14,000 customers who had their email accounts accidentally wiped out, the AP reports. A company spokeswoman apologized for the technical error that saw active accounts erased in a routine clearout of unused email accounts.The cable company didn't realize their mistake until complaints started flooding in. More »

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      Internet  • email  • ISP  • cable operators

    • White House Still Lacks Email Archive

      Washington Post  |  Jan 22, 08 1:39 PM CST

      White House Still Lacks Email Archive

      (Newser) - The ongoing controversy over the potential disappearance of millions of White House emails stems from an inadequate archiving system that has not been brought up to snuff despite court orders to do so, the Washington Post reports. In fact, the White House scrapped a system put in place by the Clinton administration but has not replaced it. More »

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      George W. Bush  • Iraq war  • White House  • email  • National Archives