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Is a Free Email Address Good for the Government to Use?May 16 2007 | Uncategorized |
Today there was a story on CNN about the government offering a $200,000 reward for tips on the 3 missing soldiers in Iraq. In the story they had a picture of the flier that they are hanging up with the details:
If you notice the email address is baghdadtipshotline@yahoo.com. Would you feel confident emailing in a tip that could potentially put your life at stake to a free email address that anyone could set up? This question has been raised before with businesses as to whether or not it’s professional to have a free email address as your main business account. In most cases - my answer is no, it’s not. In this case, I definitely don’t think it’s a good idea. Get a .gov email address or military one and it will give people an extra sense of security that this is official.
Posted by Chris Winfield at 2:00 pm
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Jake Matthews says:
May 16th, 2007 at 5:52 pmI’m horrified and insulted that our government would operate that way. That’s disgusting and a complete “dis” to the soldiers and their families.
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HMTKSteve says:
May 17th, 2007 at 8:43 amBad move. I would never trust a generic web mail service with anything of any importance.
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Victor says:
May 17th, 2007 at 10:57 amUnfortunately, this is nothing new. Our government is run by old technology-challenged people. They are obviously oblivious to any difference between free email and a secure one.
Who could forget that Ted Stevens speech on series of tubes.
May 16th, 2007 at 9:22 pm
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