Where is the "transparency and ethics" that was promised???? yup, still behind closed doors.

Where is the "earmark reform" that was promised????....yup,Obama signed his first bill full of em.

How did lobbyist get so much work in the Obama administration?????

Why is Guatanamo still open????

Why r their no trials in NY City????

Why r more drones being used when Obama squealed mightily about Bush policies????

The list is endless......

That's surely not fear....That's surely not uncertainty....That's surely not doubt....

THAT IS THE TRUTH>>>>Obama broke most of his major campaign promises.

Yet some don't care....that is unless Bush did it.

As for new ideas....liberals don't listen unless ideas involve more government and tax and spend!!! Sorry, conservatives don't have any ideas based on those 3 priorities.

Digital Photocopiers Loaded With Secrets

Your Office Copy Machine Might Digitally Store Thousands of
Documents That Get Passed on at Resale

Copy Machines, a Security Risk?

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the good, old-fashioned copy machine. But, as Armen Keteyian reports, advanced technology has opened a dangerous hole in data security.

Modern office photocopiers with a hard drive could pose a security risk for those who use them.

At a warehouse in New Jersey, 6,000 used copy machines sit ready to be sold. CBS News chief investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian reports almost every one of them holds a secret.

Nearly every digital copier built since 2002 contains a hard drive - like the one on your personal computer - storing an image of every document copied, scanned, or emailed by the machine.

In the process, it's turned an office staple into a digital time-bomb packed with highly-personal or sensitive data.

If you're in the identity theft business it seems this would be a pot of gold.

"The type of information we see on these machines with the social security numbers, birth certificates, bank records, income tax forms," John Juntunen said, "that information would be very valuable."

Juntunen's Sacramento-based company Digital Copier Security developed software called "INFOSWEEP" that can scrub all the data on hard drives. He's been trying to warn people about the potential risk - with no luck.

"Nobody wants to step up and say, 'we see the problem, and we need to solve it,'" Juntunen said.

This past February, CBS News went with Juntunen to a warehouse in New Jersey, one of 25 across the country, to see how hard it would be to buy a used copier loaded with documents. It turns out ... it's pretty easy.

Juntunen picked four machines based on price and the number of pages printed. In less than two hours his selections were packed and loaded onto a truck. The cost? About $300 each.

Until we unpacked and plugged them in, we had no idea where the copiers came from or what we'd find.

We didn't even have to wait for the first one to warm up. One of the copiers had documents still on the copier glass, from the Buffalo, N.Y., Police Sex Crimes Division.

It took Juntunen just 30 minutes to pull the hard drives out of the copiers. Then, using a forensic software program available for free on the Internet, he ran a scan - downloading tens of thousands of documents in less than 12 hours.

The results were stunning: from the sex crimes unit there were detailed domestic violence complaints and a list of wanted sex offenders. On a second machine from the Buffalo Police Narcotics Unit we found a list of targets in a major drug raid.

The third machine, from a New York construction company, spit out design plans for a building near Ground Zero in Manhattan; 95 pages of pay stubs with names, addresses and social security numbers; and $40,000 in copied checks.

But it wasn't until hitting "print" on the fourth machine - from Affinity Health Plan, a New York insurance company, that we obtained the most disturbing documents: 300 pages of individual medical records. They included everything from drug prescriptions, to blood test results, to a cancer diagnosis. A potentially serious breach of federal privacy law.

"You're talking about potentially ruining someone's life," said Ira Winkler. "Where they could suffer serious social repercussions."

Winkler is a former analyst for the National Security Agency and a leading expert on digital security.

"You have to take some basic responsibility and know that these copiers are actually computers that need to be cleaned up," Winkler said.

The Buffalo Police Department and the New York construction company declined comment on our story. As for Affinity Health Plan, they issued a statement that said, in part, "we are taking the necessary steps to ensure that none of our customers' personal information remains on other previously leased copiers, and that no personal information will be released inadvertently in the future."

Ed McLaughlin is President of Sharp Imaging, the digital copier company.

"Has the industry failed, in your mind, to inform the general public of the potential risks involved with a copier?" Keteyian asked.

"Yes, in general, the industry has failed," McLaughlin said.

In 2008, Sharp commissioned a survey on copier security that found 60 percent of Americans "don't know" that copiers store images on a hard drive. Sharp tried to warn consumers about the simple act of copying.

"It's falling on deaf ears," McLaughlin said. "Or people don't feel it's important, or 'we'll take care of it later.'"

All the major manufacturers told us they offer security or encryption packages on their products. One product from Sharp automatically erases an image from the hard drive. It costs $500.

But evidence keeps piling up in warehouses that many businesses are unwilling to pay for such protection, and that the average American is completely unaware of the dangers posed by digital copiers.

The day we visited the New Jersey warehouse, two shipping containers packed with used copiers were headed overseas - loaded with secrets on their way to unknown buyers in Argentina and Singapore.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/04/19/eveningnews/main6412439.shtml

Wow...I don't find that to be true at all....it's more like some not most.

I think more and more people r starting to realize that the expansion and power of government is out of balance....and that it has swung to a level of dangerous involvement.

HAHAHA....thanks for the laugh to start the week!!! I was a little bit grumpy this morning but not now!!!



"bile pills"....HAHAHA....U can't admit it, but it is Obama that has handed out the "bile pills" by breaking most of all his major promises than got him elected and continuing the Bush policies that he so squealed against when running for President!!!!But, hey u r just "STILL IN DENIAL" to that....I understand...it's OK!!!

November a coming....get ready for the message.

message will be delivered in November...

If a presidential candidate can not keep major promises that r directly and partly responsible for his election....Why the hell vote???

U mean he couldn't keep this promise??????? Straight from OBAMA's lips

“I respect what the Clintons tried to do in 1993 in moving health reform forward, but they made one really big mistake, and that is, they took all their people and all their experts and put them into a room, and then they closed the door. We will work on this process publicly, it will be on C-SPAN, it will be streaming over the net.”

I could post all the rest of the easy to keep simple promises but I feel u would be....

"STILL IN DENIAL"

Well, it was highly "MORE OFFENSIVE" for some under the Bush administration than the Obama administration and that is the question and purpose of this thread.

Well, don't worry, u were not alone in that belief... Obama sure made many believe that he was the better candidate by his lies....and come on, most of the "broken promises" that I quoted are ones Obama had much control over. And could have kept if he wanted too.

R u really that dense.....this thread is not about what I approve....I know exactly where I stand on issues regardless of who is president. The thread is about those people that bomblasted Bush and yet give Obama a free pass....u know who u r!!! Looks like I struck a nerve on some.

Wow....all I can say is...many Obama supporters are

"STILL IN DENIAL"

Obama was only elected because people "believed" that he would clean up Washington(remeber the main BROKEN promises - "transparency and
ethics" (what has happened - just more deals behind closed doors with lobbyist) no appointment of lobbyist in his administration(what has happened - they r still working and mightily)many people he nominated couldn't even pay their taxes correctly...Is Guantanomo still open?....Was health care reform debated on C span or at least openly...trillion dollar deficits....allowing public comment on bills before signing....gosh, I just tire trying to remember all of the LIES Obama told that helped him get elected... And heck a lot of peoople voted for Obama as a vote against Bush.

Big changes coming in November.....

U r kidding right? It's a known fact Obama has drastically stepped up the use of drones. Even the ACLU is commenting.

http://www.truthout.org/obama-administrations-use-drones-responsible-increase-civilian-deaths56370

"Investigative reporter Jane Mayer of The New Yorker magazine has revealed that the number of US drone strikes in Pakistan has risen dramatically under President Obama. During his first 9.5 months in office, Obama authorized at least 41 CIA missile strikes in Pakistan, a rate of approximately one bombing a week. President Bush sanctioned approximately the same number of attacks in his final three years in office.

The attacks have killed between 326 and 538 people, according to Mayer. She wrote, "there is no longer any doubt that targeted killing has become official US policy."

One of the most high-profile critics of the US drone program has been the United Nations human rights envoy, Philip Alston, the UN's special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary and arbitrary executions."

Once again if some could just stay on topic .....Where is the outrage now?

And from what I have read, Pakistan clearly does not support the use of drones which MURDER their citizens....but do they really have a choice?

President Obama oversaw more drone strikes in Pakistan during his first year in office than occurred during the entire Bush presidency!

Where r all the people that attacked Bush for what they claimed was an illegal war in Iran. Why r they now silent as Obama decides to kill people in Pakistan via a predator attack only on the basis that in the future these people might committ a terroist act against the US.

Obama has even authorized the asassinaion of an American — Anwar al-Awlaki. Shouldn't he be captured and tried in NY?

I still remember the threads on this site about Bush...Why r the drone attacks in Pakistan legal if the war in Iraq was illegal as claimed by those anti Bush posters? Why r they not posting incessantly about Obama's illegal actions as they did when Bush was president?

I guess their silence on these issues speaks for itself....

The answer is really SIMPLE....Getting it done is NOT...equate government spending programs to a person that continues to gain weight....at some point she/he decides that its time to lose the weight(maybethe family can no longer afford the food it takes)...it can't be done all at once....the weight has to gradually come off,just like it was gradually put on. For many, there is some type of pain involved - exercising more and eating less.

The article clearly point out what is happening...at some point, we will run out of enough of other people's monies to support the don't haves relying on the government. So it is beyond time to turn our sinking spending boat around GRADUALLY and head in the opposite direction. Many will have to live through the Pain as they did before we got to this situation in the first place.

We really are gonna have to have a constitutional amendment to stop it. The spending, that is. No politician will ever agree for long enough to gradually stop overspending. And until then, trillions will continue to be spent....it is now estimated at 1.56 trillion for 2010.

Ah,

"Our federal government was designed to serve as protector, not provider. Most of our problems can be traced to ignorance (or blatant disregard) of this simple concept. And it’s important to understand that the increasing dependence of our citizens on the government is directly tied to the ever expanding size and scope of that same government.

Think about this for a moment – as the private sector contracts, the government continues to grow. This is incredibly ominous when you consider that the government does not make money, nor does it produce anything, without first confiscating an increasing amount of the hard-earned money of the producing class. (Connect the dots, and you’ll see that this system will eventually collapse as the entitlement/welfare class outnumbers and overburdens the producing class.)"

Seems to me that we have enough problems here on Earth to work on.....especially, energy. Gas is getting ready to SOAR!!! AGAIN!!!May be a few short years or sooner.

I don't think u r seeing the numbers correctly....

"The total number of Americans dependent on the government for their daily housing, food, and health care is a staggering 60.8 million."

That # continues to go up....it has nothing to do with low income years.

The #'s of people not paying any taxes is increasing every year.

48 million taxpayers paid ...NOTHING... in 2008

People who pay taxes don't feel entitled....it's the other away around....people that don't pay taxes feel they SHOULD BE entitled...

Government earns basically no money to provide other than from those that pay. And those that pay receive little if any from the government. We are heading in a dangerous direction....Where is the tipping point...

The problem isn't that the pool of working people is diminishing...the problem is those working and paying taxes are trying to support too many that don't pay taxes.

"We are rapidly approaching the point where more than one third of Americans do not pay taxes for benefits they receive."

what happens when that # grows to 50%????? To 75%????To 90%???And it will unless people once again start to accept personal responsibility AGAIN for themselves and not EXPECT the government to look after them.

I noticed none of the above post provided a way for the government to pay for all that people get free!

That is, unless u call deficit spending sound financial policy.

Too many people are starting to think that government should provide because they think that they deserve something because someone else has it.

ROFLMAO!!!
People don't appreciate how much the government provides anymore....worse than that, they EXPECT it. Where is my money attitude....like they actually paid for it or something like that.