Two years after launching the most technologically savvy presidential campaign in history, Obama officials ran smack into the constraints of the federal bureaucracy yesterday, encountering a jumble of disconnected phone lines, old computer software, six-year-old Windows PCs (his team were a Mac house) and security regulations forbidding outside e-mail accounts.
In Twitter feeds, Obama's White House staffers claimed they suffered from downgrades on every front.
For Obama himself, the trusty Blackberry which never left his side during campaigning has now been replaced by a
Obama - We understand! We know how you must feel. Carrying two devices around, one for work the other for play is not a perfect situation, but then again you are carrying the nuclear codes on your PDAs!
While Obama gets 'locked-down', his staff get given the more liberal treatment as the White House counsel have approved (at least temporary) use of GMail accounts for the press office so that information could continue to flow. If GMail, with it’s notorious “all your data are belong to us” policies, can get approval, hopefully other sites can get approval in order to bring the White House into 2009.
While Obama gets 'locked-down', his staff get given the more liberal treatment as the White House counsel have approved (at least temporary) use of GMail accounts for the press office so that information could continue to flow. If GMail, with it’s notorious “all your data are belong to us” policies, can get approval, hopefully other sites can get approval in order to bring the White House into 2009.
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