Few realize that outgoing U.S. President George W. Bush has left behind a unique legacy for future presidents, including Barack Obama–that they are all condemned to rank tops for a search on “miserable failure” in major search engines. It’s my hope that Bush will correct this before leaving office, or that Obama will fix it soon after he’s inaugurated.
The National Archives and Records Administration is coming under fire for discontinuing its policy of taking a “digital snapshot” of all federal agency and congressional public Web sites at the end of congressional and presidential terms. NARA, which until this year had collected “harvests” of federal Web sites at the end of presidential and congressional terms, said in a recent memo that it would discontinue the practice at the end of George W. Bush’s presidency.
The Internet arms race has begun. On Jan. 8, the Washington Post reports, George Bush signed a far-reaching executive order expanding the power of federal law enforcement and spy agencies to combat Internet attacks on government computer systems using both defensive and offensive measures.
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