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In his 12 years of service to the people of Boston, Mayor Tom Menino has made technological advancement a cornerstone of his administration. Under his leadership Boston became the first U.S. city to completely wire every public classroom, and was one of the first to introduce free internet access in public libraries. On May 19th, Menino and City Councilor John Tobin are leading a public summit to:
...discuss how the City of Boston could use wireless technology to bridge the "digital divide" and provide the infrastructure to support residents’ growing need for access to new technology.
The event will be held at the Museum of Science from 8:45 A.M. to 1:00 P.M. In keeping with the theme of increasing access, the summit is free and open to the public.
Being the technologically dependent types we are, Bostonist fully supports the idea of a completely wireless Boston and applaud the Mayor for his continued leadership on this issue (though we'd like it to be regional wireless to include at least Cambridge, Somerville, and other immediately adjacent cities).
However, we wonder why the technology championing Mayor can't even seem to get himself a simple virus blocker. Below is an actual email system message that came across Bostonist's desk this morning. Absolutely no joke, whatsoever:
A virus was detected in the attached email! Please only open this email and any file attachements [sic] if you know what you are doing. If you are unsure, please ask your system administrator.Infected email came from...:mayor@ci.boston.ma.us
was sent to................:jkansonbenanav@...
with Subject...............:Delivery failure notice (ID-00004AB0)
found virus type...........:Win32/Netsky.Y@mm
As much as we support the Mayor's technological initiatives, Bostonist is starting to wonder how Mayoral challengers Maura Hennigan or Gareth Saunders feel about infecting their consituents with Trojan viruses.
NOTE: One astute Bostonist reader pointed out that it's a little misleading to suggest that this virus may Menino's fault:
It looks like Netsky.Y@mm assigns a random "from" address to messages, just as it chooses a random "to" address from the infected computer. Rather than the mayor's virus having it out for Bostonist, it actually appears that Bostonist and the major's office have a friend in common...
Photo courtesy of the U.S. Conference of Mayors.
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