NASA Internal Memo: Website Modernization and Enhanced Security Protocols (PDF) “Currently there are an estimated 3,000 public-facing NASA Web sites, yet the top 10 sites receive 80 percent of all […]
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On This Date in 2009 Breaking Social Media Barriers In Space
10 years ago – the first tweet from orbit by @Astro_Mike https://t.co/ySLsMwpZDr — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) May 13, 2019 While @Astro_Mike was making the first tweet from orbit #OTD 2009 […]
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Boeing Uses Deceptive Social Media To Grab Your Browsing Data
Keith’s note: Boeing is continuing its creepy and deceptive social media campaign – one that lures you with an innocent social media ad on Facebook to a website where they […]
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JPL Employee Complains When People Believe A Website They Developed
Bizarre. @doug_ellison complains about #Mars Opportunity false alarm because people went to a @NASA_JPL website he helped develop that showed Opportunity sending a signal to Earth. So Doug, maybe we […]
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NASAWatch Is 21
How scientists are scrambling to safeguard vital environmental data, PBS Newshour “MILES O’BRIEN: While scientists wait to see what shoes might drop, a rumor mill echoes across the Twitterverse … […]
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Will There Be New Government Social Media Content Guidelines?
Interior Department reactivates Twitter accounts after shutdown following inauguration, Washington Post “The Interior Department reactivated its official Twitter accounts early Saturday after an abrupt shutdown following two shares of tweets […]
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NASA Still Has No Effective Information Security Program
Final Memorandum, Federal Information Security Modernization Act: Fiscal Year 2016 Evaluation (IG-17-002; A-16-009-00)* “*In preparation for public release, selected portions of this report containing sensitive security information have been redacted […]
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NASA Totally Flunks FITARA Scorecard 2 Years In A Row
Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act, Wikipedia “One of the requirements would be that the government develop a streamlined plan for its acquisitions. The bill would increase the power of […]
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A Cold Wind Is Now Blowing Through Government Social Media
B-326944, Environmental Protection Agency–Application of Publicity or Propaganda and Anti-Lobbying Provisions, December 14, 2015, GAO “The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) violated publicity or propaganda and anti-lobbying provisions contained in appropriations […]
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NASA Spends Money On Innovative Talent That It Ignores
LIVE on #Periscope: Prep for Soyuz. Karaganda https://t.co/q7uja10AqG — Bill Ingalls (@ingallsimages) December 9, 2015 Keith’s note: NASA pays lots of money to send the endlessly-talented photographer/videographer Bill Ingalls to […]