RE: Security and the Government

["Keith.Morgan" <Keith.Morgan () Terradon com>]

I've worked on the House's mail systems.  Their infrastructure revolves
heavily around snail mail.  There's a reason for this.  It's free for them.
Thier signature is good as postage in the United States.  As a result of
this, thier workflow environments revolve heavily around paper mail.



-----Original Message-----
From: George Capehart [mailto:capegeo () opengroup org]
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 4:32 PM
To: Lance Spitzner; firewall-wizards () nfr com
Subject: Re: [fw-wiz] Security and the Government


Lance Spitzner wrote:
>

<snip>

> I went to Mr. Horn's website to obtain his email address,
> http://www.house.gov/horn/.  I found the address, but how he
> uses email concerns me.  Remeber, this is one of the lead
> congressmen involved in the USA's Information Technology.
>
>   "Send e-mail to steve.horn () mail house gov.  Please
>    include your full name and postal address, including
>    ZIP code, since I respond by U.S. mail. Thank you."
>
> What can one imply from this .... ?

First impression is not good.  I can envision several possibilities
about why that is, but none give me any warm fuzzies . . . :->

One possibility is that he's so paranoid about the House email system
that he won't use it.  Another is that he's a technophobe and won't use
it.  Another is that he doesn't know how to use email.  The most likely
and least unappealing scenario I can come up with is that he doesn't
handle his correspondence and the person/people who do don't know how to
use email and/or don't know how to manage it . . .

None of those make me feel like the future of government management and
information and technology are in very good hands . . .

But then I could be wrong . . .  8-}
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