While Obama talks cyber security, his hotel’s computer system fails
By Jeff Mason RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (Reuters) – It may not have been a hacking, but a computer outage at the hotel where U.S. President Barack Obama resided this week could not have come at a more inconvenient time. The president flew to San Francisco on Thursday to preach the benefits of better corporate cybersecurity practices. The entire two days he was in town, the computer system at his upscale hotel, The Fairmont, was down. “There's certainly no evidence to say anything was hacked or compromised,” said Thomas Klein, the hotel's general manager, noting the irony of Obama's attendance at a cybersecurity summit during the same period.