Would-be Obama aides must disclose Web posts, Facebook profiles

[bertine]

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10097448-38.html

A nine-page questionnaire requires applicants to list--and if possible, provide copies of--all "posts or comments on blogs or other Web sites" they have ever made. Also required are "aliases" or nicknames used on those sites.

Translated into English, this means that President-elect Obama wants to know far more about you than his predecessors did. That requirement would force applicants to disclose information about Facebook and MySpace pages, profiles posted on dating Web sites, and even what was posted on Web sites like CNET and YouTube that allow readers to append comments.

I wouldn't even know where to start.

Comments

Re: WTF?

[sithlet.livejournal.com]

At that point, I'd just figure I could provide every alias I'd ever used and tell them to do their own sleuth work.

Re: WTF?

[bertine.livejournal.com]

Exactly. I don't even use any alias other than "bertine" and this would take them forever.