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)
- From: "Villano, Paul Mr CIV USA TRADOC" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:12:25 -0400
- Priority: normal
I know I've mentioned this before and won't go into the whole tirade again, but I convinced our folks here that Macs were better...And they got them for THEMSELVES. Yet tell ME they're not supported.
Chew on that bit of irony over the weekend.
----- Original Message -----
From: Matthew Smith <email@hidden>
Date: Friday, September 3, 2010 11:55
Subject: Re: [AKO Warning - Message fails DKIM verification] [Fed-Talk] Vote for your favorite phone on AKO (UNCLASSIFIED)
To: Fed Talk <email@hidden>
> There is no reason to keep Macs off our unclassified military base
> network either. But all the people that work in the
> communications squadron treat Macs like an alien species, and
> believe they are nothing but trouble. I don't know if that
> attitude will ever be changed. The typical Windows-only types are
> also big fans of Android, and dislike anything made by Apple. I'm
> sure their reasons for denying Macs and iPhones are completely
> indefensible. However, there aren't enough people in those
> departments to challenge the status quo. The only place I've seen
> in the military with a high enough concentration of open-minded
> people seems to be at AKO/DKO.
>
> Matthew
>
> On Sep 3, 2010, at 11:41 AM, Bill Vlahos wrote:
>
> > Droids make no sense from a security perspective. There is no
> way to encrypt the data on the internal card. You can lock an
> Android phone with a PIN but to get to the data just pop out the
> SIM card and put it in a reader.
> >
> > How can anyone find that acceptable?
> >
> > There is no solution available to encrypt the SIM card that I am
> aware of.
> >
> > Bill Vlahos
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> > On Sep 3, 2010, at 7:54 AM, David Whitley wrote:
> >
> >> Has anyone really gotten the low down as to why the iPhones
> aren't on the FISC contract (at least for navy). We have access
> to 3 or 4 droid devices (Droid, incredible, X, droid2), but
> supposedly the iPhone hasn't been authorized. With the droid's
> ability to run unsigned content, this doesn't make sense to me
> from a security stand point. In fact, there was a recent
> application on the droid platform that was found to cache all
> phone call records including txt messages and then send it to some
> IP address out of country. They can't say that the droids are
> being tested for compliance because the Droid X was available on
> contract within 2 weeks of release. Anyone know?
> >>
> >>
> >> David R. Whitley Jr.
> >> Email: mailto:email@hidden
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sep 3, 2010, at 8:17 AM, Wm. Cerniuk wrote:
> >>
> >>> 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" < 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" <
> >>>> 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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