Ah, so, if we want President Bush's e-mail archives we need to ask the Chinese.

Hackers used to do this all the time... you been hacked, mister... giss a job mate... I'll sort you out, innit.

Just sayin'

So maybe the CHINESE have backups of the "missing" White House emails?

We've heard that a whole bunch of emails have gone walkabout, and can't be retrieved, but maybe the Chinese have them backed up, hm?

"...American's have been using their signals intelligence to spy on foreign corporations and give their own companies a competitive edge for years."

Absolute horse shit.

Just offer employees at the competition more money. This works the world wide.

Mine's the one with the Intel... um I mean AMD key card.

1. actual espionage versus idle curiosity

2. knowledgeable attacker versus wannabe script kiddie

3. no chance of extradition versus "special friendship" relationship brought to bear

4. international incident versus international farce

5. downplaying of incident versus hyperbolic billing as "biggest military hack ever"

6. incompetent security (though recognition of security as an ongoing process) versus incompetent security (compounded by focus on script kiddie instead of failings of process)

7. large amount of data downloaded versus no UFO data found

Am I missing anything here?

The only secure computer is one that is turned off.

If that doesn't work, block all IP addresses from countries that you don't want snooping around.

Also block all of the proxy IPs. No one *needs* a proxy.

I wonder what the Chinese hear about these so called Attacks. We do seem to hear alot of these reports of late saying the Chinese are attacking the UK and the USA.

Im gonna try and ignore this as i think its blatant propoganda...

Mines the crispy fried modem Extra Hot

Perhaps Ms. Palin had it right, its safer to store things in a Yahoo account. Or we could follow Mr. Rove's example and conduct government business from a political account.

Yahoo could probably use this as advertising considering their sorry plight. "Use Yahoo - free from FOIA requests, mandatory archive requirements, and Chinese hackers".

Mine's the one with not_a_government_account@yahoo.com e-mail address in the pocket.

Didn't certain members of the White House mysteriously lose a bunch of emails recently? You know, when they decided what a neat idea it was to tell the world who the CIA agent in charge of tracking down loose nukes was. Thereby destroying not just her cover, but also that of everyone she worked with. Not to mention the high probability that anyone she did business with is also now under a certain amount of scrutiny in some very unsavoury parts of the world.

And all because she was puzzled over how she missed a bunch of loose nuke material from a little country called Niger, and sent her husband over to investigate. Imagine her relief when she found out it was bullshit and she wasn't incompetent at her job. Imagine her surprise when the White House decided to let everyone know this.

So.. given that the Chinese seem to be experts on White House emails, and given that we already outsource a large amount of business in that particular country.. perhaps we could ask them if they could find anything useful.. something we could use to press real charges against the people that committed treason. I don't know about you, but finding one person guilty of lying doesn't do it for me.

at least we will have an archive to fall back on when we want to impeach bush,

cos there wont be any incriminating mails on the archives/servers when he leaves...

(oh hes already bricked the servers several times this term)

hmmm someone wanna ask the chinese if we can have a copy...

The NSA created Security Enhanced Linux extensions for the purpose of blocking all unknown attack vectors and only permitting known good traffic and applications yet the government doesn't use it to protect itself?

Clearly the definition of System Admin has lost its meaning in the days of point and click computing.

...will dismount their tall'ish steed, "Pontificus", and give due credit to Palin, Cheney, and Bush for their "Cloud Email" initiatives. By concealing their email correspondence "in plain sight"* they may well have saved the world from dissolution and despair as the rising Red Dragon, no longer satisfied with simply owning our arses, decides it wants to know what the hell we think we're doing with them.

A retraction is in order, and perhaps a written apology. Dont be afraid to grovel. Their personal addresses are, of course, top secret - with only key government staffers, the pimply undergrads at Google and Yahoo, and a couple of spam address harvesters (Proudly American, of course!) in the loop - but an email sent to the Whitehouse reception will find its way to the right place:

Reception@whitehouse.gov.xinwahtradingcollective.cn

I am sure a little humble pie will help fortify your usual diet of cheap red wine, rolos, and misanthropy. Feast!

* Sited just out of sight of judicial oversight

...Back-up solutions? ask Wing Xhiu, founder of US Gov Mail Back-up systems

How come amanfromMars isnt using the trademarked Alien in all of his posts anymore? He ok?

A link on www.whitehouse.gov points to sawho14.eop.gov. DNS lookup also provides these, mailhub-eop2.eop.gov 63.161.169.20, mailhub-eop3.eop.gov 198.137.241.41, mrx.eop.gov. I wonder are the missing emails stored here ..

Office of Management and Budget

725 17 th Street, N.W.

New Executive Office Building, Room 9013

Washington, DC 20506-000

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HAY GUYS TOTALLY FRESH IDEA HERE, WHY DON'T WE ASK THEM FOR THE MISSING BUSH EMAILS?

I'll have a number 34, a number 23 - extra rice and a fully backed up copy of the Whitehouse email server please.

Perhaps the White House passwords are all blank, too.

Surely this is just the Chinese checking up on their investment, probably wanting to know where all their money is being spent on.

..I wonder if they use Lotus Notes..?

I just have this image of 3 yr old chinese kids hacking lotus notes archives - which is impossible - they're completely unsecured anyway :P