I noticed an article at The Register about the Obama websites and the security problems they seem to have. I don't know if anyone from Obama's team reads The Register, but they surely read Kos, so I'm bringing the subject up here.
More details follow.
According to the article, both Change.gov and MyBarackObama.com have some amateurish errors in their setup and operations, errors that should be fixed ASAP:
For one, the content management system for both of the sites is easily accessible to anyone. And as far as we can tell, neither page is protected by secure sockets layer - the "s" following a web address's "http" that assures you the connection is encrypted.
And:
Even more troubling is the discovery that administrative pages for both sites are linked to Google Analytics. This is a hard configuration to make sense of. It means that Google, a private company with important business before the US government, has complete administrative access to one of the government's most important websites.
I'm not sure whose fault this is, but it should be corrected, I'd say. I don't know about the sites that allow for contributions of money, but if those are as open, we're in serious trouble.
Hey, you! You in the Obama inner circle! Get this fixed, will you?
Thanks
Ed