Re: [AKO Warning - Message fails DKIM verification] [Fed-Talk] Vote for your favorite phone on AKO (UNCLASSIFIED)
Re: [AKO Warning - Message fails DKIM verification] [Fed-Talk] Vote for your favorite phone on AKO (UNCLASSIFIED)
- Subject: Re: [AKO Warning - Message fails DKIM verification] [Fed-Talk] Vote for your favorite phone on AKO (UNCLASSIFIED)
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- Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 11:21:47 -0400
I find the outright prohibition of non-Windows
devices on EPA's network very problematic for all the reasons everyone
always sites. Certainly no security through diversity here. I
find this all the more troubling in light of the Government Paperwork Elimination
Act. GPEA states that, at least in the electronic signature context,
that the government must adopt technology that is "compatible with
standards and technology for electronic signatures that are generally used
in commerce and industry" and "may not inappropriately favor
one industry or technology." Public Law 105-277.
This statement seems to strongly suggest
that congress wanted standards-compliant technology, which Apple normally
meets even when other platforms do not. Digging through the legislative
history of GPEA, Congress stated that the "intent of the bill is for
the government to remain 'technology neutral.' The intent of the bill is
not to mandate the use of a particular technology. Rather, the bill is
intended to be technology neutral leaving open the possibility that a wide
variety of existing technologies or technologies that will be developed
in the future may be used by the Federal government in satisfying the requirements
of this bill." Senate Report 105-335.
Most agencies, at least mine, don't
remotely act in a technology-neutral manner, whether it's in the e-signature
or other contexts.
Joe
From:
| "Wm. Cerniuk" <email@hidden>
|
To:
| "Villano, Paul Mr CIV USA TRADOC"
<email@hidden>
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Cc:
| "email@hidden"
<email@hidden>
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Date:
| 09/03/2010 08:17
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Subject:
| Re: [AKO Warning - Message fails DKIM
verification] [Fed-Talk] Vote
for your favorite phone on AKO (UNCLASSIFIED) |
Endorsement is a fairly grey area. Considering
how hard it is to buy anything but Dell, anything but Microsoft, anything
but Blackberry in the government...
If the government negates or attempts to negate everything save one product
in a category, is that not endorsement?
With that said, the Army is the only organization that I ever heard "security
through diversity" in the context of computing platforms (which in
the last 2 years applies to smart phones).
R / Wm.
On Sep 3, 2010, at 7:00, "Villano, Paul Mr CIV USA TRADOC" <email@hidden>
wrote:
> I'm surprised that such a poll exists as it gives the appearance of
endorsement and we (DoD folks anyway) are not supposed to be doing that.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Blankenship, Bob J Mr CTR US USA IMCOM" <email@hidden>
> Date: Thursday, September 2, 2010 16:53
> Subject: [AKO Warning - Message fails DKIM verification] [Fed-Talk]
Vote for your favorite phone on AKO (UNCLASSIFIED)
> To: email@hidden
>
>
>> Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
>> Caveats: NONE
>>
>> Noticed there is a poll on AKO to vote for
>>
>> "If you had a choice of the employer-provided smartphone
you
>> received, which
>> of the following would you prefer?"
>>
>> iPhone has a slight lead over the Android.-
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Bob Blankenship
>>
>>
>> Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
>> Caveats: NONE
>>
>>
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