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RAIN 3/25: Weekend Update Part 2



CIO 03/21/01
Directors could face rap for data protection apathy
http://www.silicon.com/public/door?REQUNIQ=985164976&6004REQEVENT=&REQINT1=433

70&REQSTR1=newsnow

Company directors are risking criminal prosecution by failing to comply with
the Data Protection Act.
According to the latest figures from the Industrial Relations Service (IRS),
as many as 50 per cent of employers do not have a best practice data
protection policy in place to deal with employees personal information.



Tampa Bay Online 03/21/01
Encryption system for e-mail slow to catch on despite risk
http://news.tbo.com/news/MGAJ86GJKKC.html

Associated Press
Elana Kehoe doesn't like the idea of governments and hackers reading her
e-mail as it traverses the Internet. So a few weeks ago, she installed a tool
to scramble her messages.
But she's having trouble using Pretty Good Privacy encryption. She knows of
only four other PGP users, including her husband, Brendan. That means
everything else goes through regular e-mail, which is as private as sending a
postcard.
Kehoe has tried to persuade friends to install the free software, too, but
they couldn't be bothered.




Federal Computer Week 03/21/01
USGS putting video archive online
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/0319/web-usgs-03-21-01.asp

by Greg Langlois
The U.S. Geological Survey is tapping Convera to help it develop a Web-based,
easily searchable catalog of scientific videos in its archive.
USGS is using Convera's Screening Room video asset management product to make
its videos - unedited footage of earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods and
coastal erosion, for example - searchable via the Internet. The videos are
often requested by scientists, educators and the news media, said Karen Wood,
a USGS public affairs specialist.




Florida Times Union 03/21/01
Mapping the past
City's 120-plus burial grounds being documented
http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/032101/bus_5699918.html

by Simon Barker-Benfield
"At Rest. Gone but not forgotten," says the granite headstone at the edge of
Gravelly Hill Cemetery on the Westside, where graves date to 1862.
Gravelly is one of perhaps 122 burial grounds in Jacksonville.
That's how many Joel McEachin, the city's senior historic preservation
planner, has identified from city, legal and other records.
So far.



Hoosier Times 03/21/01
E-mail privacy legislation opens new can of worms
Bill that would shield state employees' Internet and e-mail use from public
scrutiny pits desire for privacy against need for new government
http://www.hoosiertimes.com/stories/2001/03/21/news.010321_HT_A1_PM020990.sto?

PREVURI=%2Fstories%2F2001%2F03%2F21%2Findex%2F

by Steve Hinnefeld
Herald-Times Staff Writer
INDIANAPOLIS - State legislators kicked up a controversy with an attempt to
shield state employees' Internet and e-mail use from public scrutiny.
The move, launched two weeks ago in the Indiana House, has raised tough
questions about how new technologies influence the conflict between privacy
and the public's right to know.
"It's unbelievably complicated," said Fred Cate, an Indiana University law
professor and expert on computer privacy issues.




Information Week 03/21/01
Wanted: E-Document strategy
http://www.informationweek.com/829/apco.htm

by Ron Copeland
This is one of a series of articles that examine a specific company's
business problems and related technology needs. This time, we look at the
Automobile Protection Corp.'s effort to simplify its business processes and
support growth with a Web-based content-management system. InformationWeek
and Doculabs Inc., a technology-assessment company, have invited interested
vendors to submit detailed proposals to solve the challenges described in
APCO's request for proposal (see sidebar for full text of the RFP). Selected
vendors will present proposed solutions live at the InformationWeek Spring
Conference on April 2 at Amelia Island, Fla. For details on how to submit a
proposal, visit informationweek.com/events.




Inland Empire online 03/21/01
FBI agents seize casino documents
The records at the Cahuilla Creek gaming facility were taken amid allegations
of theft
http://www.inlandempireonline.com/news/stories/032101/bust21.shtml

by Karin Marriott
The Press-Enterprise
ANZA
FBI agents took possession of records from the Cahuilla Creek Casino on
Tuesday amid internal allegations by tribal members of embezzlement and
theft, according to officials.
Casino officials handed the documents to agents from the FBI's Palm Springs
office to ensure they would be available for review by the National Indian
Gaming Commission, said Riverside County Sheriff's Lt. Daryl Birney.




Los Angeles Times 03/21/01
Dot-com failures tax worriers consciences
http://www.latimes.com/news/front/20010321/t000024500.html

by Karen Kaplan
Margee Fagelson lost her first dot-com job last year when Ingredients.com
went belly up in February. That was followed by the shutdown of Virtual
Communities, which had hired her as a consultant, and VSlash, which went poof
before paying her a $3,000 consulting fee.
Now, the Internet meltdown has visited a final indignity upon the 35-year-old
New York music media consultant: With less than a month to go until tax day,
two of these former employers haven't sent Fagelson the forms she needs to
file her return.




Maine Today 03/21/01
Preserving history
Richmond official determined to save documents
http://www.centralmaine.com/news/stories/010321richmond.shtml

by Dennis Hoery
Blethen Maine Newspapers
RICHMOND - Jay Robbins can walk someone through a municipal budget one minute
and give a tour of The Richmond Historical and Cultural Society the next.
Robbins is Richmond's town manager and its historian. And if it weren't for
his love of history, Richmond's past might have been lost forever.
Robbins is spearheading an effort to collect and preserve thousands of town
records that have been scattered throughout the town. Worn and tattered
documents such as marriage declarations, pauper letters, birth records and
insanity petitions - some dating as far back as 1823 - have been found at the
town office, police station, fire station, town schools and at the Historical
Society building.




Naples Daily News 03/21/01
Georgia bill joins Earnhardt fight, closes autopsy photos
http://www.naplesnews.com/01/03/florida/d589018a.htm

Associated Press
ATLANTA - A bill prompted by the death of race car driver Dale Earnhardt won
approval in the Georgia House and now heads for the governor's desk. The
measure bars the release of autopsy photos unless the family gives
permission.
Earnhardt was killed in a crash Feb. 18 at the Daytona 500.
The Florida Legislature is considering a similar bill. Sen. Jim King,
R-Jacksonville, whose district includes the Daytona International Speedway,
has a bill that would require a person to show good cause to a judge before
being allowed to see autopsy photos.




New York Times 03/21/01
Cryptologists discover flaw in e-mail security
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/21/technology/21CODE.html

by James Glanz
Two cryptologists announced yesterday that they had found a flaw in the most
widely used program for sending encrypted, or coded, e-mail messages. If
confirmed, the flaw would allow a determined adversary to obtain secret codes
used by senders of encrypted e-mail.
The program, called P.G.P. for Pretty Good Privacy, is used by human rights
organizations to protect vulnerable sources, by corporations to ensure secure
communications and by millions of individual users. American security experts
cautioned that they could not fully judge the accuracy of the claim, which
was issued in Prague, before more technical details become available. The
experts also noted that some sort of access to the sender's computer - either
directly or via the Internet - would be needed to exploit any such flaw.




New York Times 03/21/01
Man broke into accounts of celebrities, police say
<http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/21/technology/21CYBE.html?searchpv=nytToday>

by Jayson Blair and William K. Rashbaum
Abraham Abdallah needed little more than a pack of stationery, two stamps
with corporate logos on them, a copy of a Forbes magazine article on the 400
richest people in America and a computer in the Brooklyn Heights branch of
the Brooklyn Public Library, according to law enforcement officials.




New York Times 03/21/01
Writers groups pen online licenses
http://www.nytimes.com/cnet/CNET_0-1005-200-5208188.html?searchpv=cnet

by Gwendolyn Mariano
CNET News.com
The National Writers Union and Contentville on Wednesday launched a Web-based
licensing system to compensate writers for their published work.
The joint Publications Rights Clearinghouse will let writers register the
copyright for their work and receive royalty payments for pieces sold on
Steve Brill's Contentville, which provides books, magazines, e-books and
other literary works. The NWU and Contentville said writers will receive 30
percent of the fees paid by Contentville customers.




Portland Press Herald 03/21/01
Cataloging life in a small town
http://www.portland.com/news/coast/010321documents.shtml

by Dennis Hoey
Portland Press Herald writer
Jay Robbins can walk someone through a municipal budget one minute and give a
tour of The Richmond Historical and Cultural Society the next.
Robbins is Richmond's town manager and its historian. And if it weren't for
his love of history, Richmond's past might have been lost forever.




Seattle Post-Intelligencer 03/21/01
U.S. Census is the bare bones of history
Buried as deep as 1790 are the skeletons of countless stories
http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/local/oldcensus21.shtml

by Lisa Stiffler
Bud Barden's disapproval is apparent as he looks out the window of the Norse
Home at the carpet of moss on a rotten roof just kitty-corner from the senior
center.
The now-decrepit Phinney Ridge house was his childhood home, you see, the
place his family lived after their epic 1919 trip west from Connecticut. It
was also the place where Bud Barden made his debut in the U.S. Census. He's
had eight encores.




ZDNet News 03/21/01
Anti-spam measure backed by House panel
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5079891,00.html

by Patrick Ross
WASHINGTON--A House subcommittee Wednesday unanimously approved a bill that
aims to free consumers from the burdens of spam.
The bill, revised from one introduced earlier this year and sponsored by
Reps. Heather Wilson, R-N.M., and Gene Green, D-Texas, cleared the House
Commerce Telecommunications Subcommittee. Wilson says it should come up for a
vote next Wednesday in the full Commerce Committee--where it is strongly
endorsed by top members Billy Tauzin, R-La., and John Dingell, D-Mich.






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

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