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New Scientist 10/28/00
Indelible evidence
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns226226 

by Duncan Graham-Rowe
Just when you thought they were gone for good, imprudent e-mails can come 
back to haunt you. In fact, unless there are changes in the law they might 
even cost you your job 
WE CAN only imagine the look on Bill Gates's face when he learned that 
four-year-old personal files were to be used as evidence against him in the 
US government's antitrust case against Microsoft. But it could have been 
anyone. 


PRNewswire 10/23/00
ImageTag Launches KwikTagE
http://news.excite.com/news/pr/001023/az-imagetag-kwiktag-e

PHOENIX, Oct. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- ImageTag Inc., the first company with a fast 
and simple way to manage paper digitally, today announced the launch of 
KwikTag(TM) E, which enables consumers to easily file, retrieve and secure 
paper documents on the Internet. The KwikTag system uses a Post-it(R) eFlag, 
a digital version of the Post-it(R) Note, made by 3M exclusively for 
ImageTag. 


Arkansas Democrat Gazette 10/29/00
Technology spawns new era for corporate spies
http://www.ardemgaz.com/Sun/biz/D1bespionage29.html

by Nicole Ostrow
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
For 45 days, California bank officials paid to keep a blackmailer quiet.
The blackmailer had information on confidential accounts and passwords, and 
officials had no idea how those records were obtained.
What had happened, recalled Ron Moritz, chief technical officer with 
Cupertino, Calif.-based Symantec Corp., was a bank vice president had 
accidentally downloaded a Trojan horse virus, maybe by opening something as 
common as an online greeting card. The virus gave the sender a view of 
everything that popped up on the screen.


Washington Post 10/29/00
White House e-mail gap may yet be a problem
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35591-2000Oct28.html

by George Larnder Jr
After the news broke last February that a glitch in White House computers had 
resulted in the administration's failure to review more than two years' worth 
of e-mails covered by independent counsel and congressional subpoenas, the 
White House said it would do its best to produce any relevant evidence before 
the November election. 
Now, more than six months later and just a few days before Election Day, it 
is clear that the vast bulk of the messages--including many to and from Vice 
President Gore--won't begin to get a thorough review until after the voters 
choose a new president. Nothing in the way of a smoking gun has emerged from 
the thousands of e-mails that have been reconstructed and reviewed so far, 
but hundreds of thousands more remain to be examined.


Pittsburgh Post Gazette 10/26/00
Vaticans wartime records sought
Scholars examining Pius XII want more
http://www.post-gazette.com/headlines/20001026vaticannat4.asp

by Ann Rodgers-Melnick
A commission of Catholic and Jewish scholars that the Vatican assigned to 
examine questions about Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust has issued a 
preliminary report asking Pope John Paul II to make more records available. 
Between 1965 and 1982, the Vatican published 12 hefty volumes of its World 
War II archives, but those "often raise important questions to which they 
themselves do not provide answers," the report said. 


CNN.com 10/27/00
Police win limited search of bookstore records
http://www.cnn.com/2000/LAW/10/27/bookstorerecords.crim.ap/index.html

Associated Press
DENVER, Colorado (AP) -- In a raid earlier this year on a suburban mobile 
home, police found the makings of a methamphetamine lab, complete with how-to 
books on manufacturing illegal drugs. 
Outside, they found a shipping envelope from a bookstore they suspected had 
sent the books. But the envelope had no named recipient. 
Investigators contacted the bookstore to find out who had ordered the books, 
but the store refused to hand over its records, setting up a legal battle 
that has pitted readers' privacy rights against law enforcement's right to 
gather evidence. 


Evansville Courier & Press 10/28/00
Congress OKs bill requiring records
http://www.courierpress.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi?200010/28+billrecords102800_news.

html+20001028

by Jesse J. Holland
Associated Press
Washington -- Documents from the old U.S. Freedmen's Bureau, which helped 
freed slaves try to build lives after the Civil War, will be preserved and 
cataloged under legislation approved by Congress. 
The legislation, approved by the Senate by voice vote late Thursday, requires 
the government to use available technology to restore the documents and 
innovative technologies to make them available to the public and researchers. 


St. Paul/Minneapolis Pioneer Planet 10/25/00
City Pages seeks accountability, pursues tobacco litigation records
http://www.pioneerplanet.com/seven-days/5/opinion/docs/011511.htm

by Doug Tice
editorial writer
The weekly alternative newspaper City Pages has filed a lawsuit demanding 
access to the last of Minnesota's secret tobacco documents. 
The lawsuit gives Minnesota courts one of several remaining chances to 
finally require accountability in the handling of proceeds from the state's 
landmark tobacco litigation. 
City Pages is seeking the billing and expense records of the Robins Kaplan 
Miller & Ciresi law firm, which represented Minnesota in its suit against the 
tobacco industry. 
Three business days after that suit was settled in May 1998, the Attorney 
General's office returned to the Robins firm all documentation of the work 
the private firm had done to earn some $440 million in fees, already paid in 
full directly by the tobacco company defendants. 
Those records have never been publicly examined, despite requests for access 
from a legislator, journalists, a lawyer and others. 


Pittsburgh Post Gazette 10/26/00
Editorial: Open-records victory
http://www.post-gazette.com/forum/20001026edassess1.asp

In January, Allegheny County will join other counties around the nation in 
giving its citizens full computer access to property assessment records. The 
public should be delighted. 
Delighted because people will be able to compare their assessments to those 
of similar properties with the convenience of their home computers. Delighted 
because they'll have at their fingertips a 600,000-property database, which 
had been contained only on paper. Delighted because it will help keep the 
assessment system honest, with so many citizens having a window on its work. 


New York Times 10/29/00
Following Up: Queens Hopes to Regain
A Reminder of its past
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/29/nyregion/29FOLL.html

It had been 24 years since the New York State Archives last permitted the 
Flushing Remonstrance to be on display in Flushing, Queens. And so, in 
January, when it was time for the latest exhibition to end and the 
342-year-old document to be returned from the Flushing Public Library to a 
closed vault in Albany, the borough's elected representatives, civic 
officials and historians objected loudly to giving it back. 
Nevertheless, the priceless, fire-damaged Remonstrance was escorted back to 
Albany by state troopers. 


New York Times 10/29/00
Irregular new accounts alerted Microsoft to network intruder
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/29/technology/29SOFT.html

by John Schwartz
Howard A. Schmidt's staff called with troubling news late in the day on 
Tuesday, Oct. 17. "Some accounts were being created that did not match our 
normal audit logs," Mr. Schmidt, the corporate security officer for the 
Microsoft Corporation, said yesterday.
A new account gives a user access to parts of a computer network, and the 
creation of accounts is carefully monitored by companies like Microsoft. New 
accounts that were not created by the usual procedures raised a red flag: a 
computer intruder could be working his way into the software giant's network.


New York Times 10/26/00
Literary sleuth casts doubt on the authorship of an iconic Christmas poem
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/26/arts/26NIGH.html

by David Kirkpatrick
Every Christmas for more than 150 years, children have hung their stockings 
by the chimney with care and learned to thank Clement Clarke Moore for the 
tradition. 
Moore, a wealthy Manhattan biblical scholar, went down in history as the man 
who in 1823 created the American image of Santa Claus as author of the 
"Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas." Better known as "The Night Before 
Christmas," it became one of the most widely read poems in the world. 


New York Times 10/28/00
Chipping away at statue's myths
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/28/nyregion/28STAT.html

by Glenn Collins
Here are just a few of the things that many New Yorkers swear they know about 
the Statue of Liberty:
Lady Liberty was created by the sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi and 
presented as a gift from the French nation to the people of New York. It was 
designed to be a female personification of American freedom to welcome 
immigrants and salute them with the famous words of the Emma Lazarus poem, 
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe 
free." The pennies of schoolchildren paid for the pedestal so the statue 
could be erected on Liberty Island. 
Sorry! Not exactly. 



Insight Magazine 11/20/00
E-mail paper trail leads to Gore
http://www.insightmag.com/archive/200011222.shtml

by Paul M. Rodriguez
A congressional committee has documents that reveal Al Gore maintained a 
secret computer system in his office to conduct his personal, political and 
campaign business. 
I'm not an expert on computers," Al Gore said - and it may come back to haunt 
the purported inventor of the Internet as surely as his infamous effort to 
spin his way around the fund-raising laws by claiming there was "no 
controlling legal authority." 
So far, two reports have been issued by the House Committee on Government 
Reform. But the general press has all but ignored them - especially one just 
released with substantial new documents that raise serious questions about 
Gore's truthfulness concerning his role in the White House e-mail scandals. 
And more. 


ABC News Online 10/27/00
Aboriginal archives for remote communities
http://www.abc.net.au/news/regionals/alice/regalice-27oct2000-6.htm

Remote Aboriginal communities in Central Australia will soon be able to 
access documents, photographs and footage on computer, as a permanent record 
of their past.
The old stories project, has been launched at Uluru as part of the 15th 
anniversary of the land hand-back to traditional owners.


Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
pakurilecz@aol.com
Richmond, Virginia

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