Exclusive Interview with David Gewirtz, Author of Where Have All The Emails Gone?

How Something as Seemingly Benign as White House Email Can Have Freaky National Security Consequences

David Gewirtz is the author of Where have all the Emails Gone? which was published in 2007. He has also written more than 700 articles “about technology, competitiveness, and national security policy.” David has agreed to an extensive interview with OpEdNews. This is the first of a three-part series.

Welcome to OpEdNews, David.  In an article you wrote after Obama’s victory but before his inauguration, you pleaded with him to treat the White House computers like evidence at a crime scene.  Why did you say that?

Do other countries handle these issues better than we do?  

>Not so much. No. The U.K. has had some serious problems with missing data off phones, cameras, and flash cards.

Which news stories have vindicated your fears and warnings as pointed out in your many articles and recent book?

>Oh, heck. So many. The scariest one was when a Mexican advance man for a meeting between President Bush and the leaders of Mexico and Canada stole BlackBerrys from White House personnel and had them in his control for an extended period of time. But we’re seeing an almost constant flood of stories of cyberhacking, loss of data, missing information, and more. I also wrote an article about security flaws at the FTC and Homeland Security that’ll curl your hair.

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