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Cisco CTO could be tapped by Obama; 3 reasons why Obama's BlackBerry is a national security threat

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Cisco CTO could be tapped by Obama

Tim Greene By Tim Greene
Cisco's CTO Padmasree Warrior is one of the top two candidates for the first U.S. CTO, expected to be named any day now, according to published reports. Read full story

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What would Cisco CTO Warrior bring to the fed CTO job? A sharp wit and a propensity for name-dropping - perhaps that could set Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior apart from her rival for the U.S. CTO job. Published reports this morning say Warrior is one of two candidates President-elect Obama is considering for the federal CTO post. Warrior has been Cisco CTO for a year and in that time she has .... (not sure what she has done in that role that has been groundbreaking; can someone fill in the dots?). Before that she was CTO at struggling Motorola. We're hoping she would make a bigger mark as the nation's CTO.

Cisco's new CTO talks first impressions It's been three months since Padmasree Warrior left Motorola to become Cisco's CTO. Since then, she's not been available for interviews – until now. Network World Managing Editor Jim Duffy caught up with her at the Cisco Live! customer conference in Orlando.

Three reasons why Obama's BlackBerry is a national security threat In a nut shell the BlackBerry service is too public to be used. Let's be rational here, how would you feel if you knew the president used a public copy of WindowsXP on all his PCs, or if he used a public copy of Internet Explorer and Outlook? How warm and fuzzy would you feel about the security of our gov’t secrets?

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Three reasons why Obama's BlackBerry is a national security threat In a nut shell, the BlackBerry service is too public to be used. Let's be rational here, how would you feel if you knew the president used a public copy of WindowsXP on all his PCs, or if he used a public copy of Internet Explorer and Outlook?

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