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RAIN 05/15: "failed miserably", digital signatures, digital dinos aurs



Denver Post 5/14/01
FBI's record-keeping 'terrible'
Former agent blames system for delay in McVeigh papers
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1002,204%257E33564,00.html

by Howard Pankratz
Denver Post Legal Affairs Writer
Thousands of pages of FBI documents got to Timothy McVeigh's lawyers years
after they should have because the FBI's computerized records-keeping system
"failed miserably," a former deputy director of the agency told The Denver
Post. 


Seattle Times 5/14/01
Do your paperwork: Dispose of the clutter
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/134295171_paperwork
14.html

by Julie Tripp
Newhouse News Service
"Death by clutter," that's what my obituary will say. 
"A woman was the victim of a freak accident Friday when the piles on her
desk started to slide and buried her under several tons of paper. ... " 
If you, too, operate behind a bunker of papers, press releases or reports,
let's join forces to wrestle the paper tiger back into its cage. 


ABCNews.com 5/14/01
Old jeans expected to earn big bucks
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/GMA/GoodMorningAmerica/GMA010514_old_jeans.ht
ml

It's a truly historical find, the oldest pair of jeans known to man were
discovered and now you can try them on for size. That's as long as you have
a fat purse to go with them.
The jeans are being auctioned off on eBay and though they're not designer,
they're expected to go for more than $30,000. 
The oldest pair of Levi's was discovered in a Nevada mining town three years
ago. They've been authenticated by the Levi Strauss & Co., the clothing
manufacturer that produced the garment. 



AllAfrica.com 5/14/01
Government goings-on thrown on the web
http://allafrica.com/stories/200105140738.html

Panafrican News Agency
Johannesburg, South Africa 
South Africa has moved to promote access to information by launching a
website, where interested people can find out the goings on in government.
The launch Monday of the National Automated Archival Information Retrieval
System (NAAIRS) is said to represents a technological breakthrough towards
the realisation of objectives envisaged by the Promotion of Access to
Information Act (No 2 of 2000).



News24.co.za 5/14/01
Internet access to National Archives
http://news.24.com/News24/South_Africa/0,1113,2-7_1024180,00.html

Pretoria - A system enabling Internet users to retrieve information from the
National Archives of SA was launched by Arts, Culture, Science and
Technology Minister Ben Ngubane in Pretoria on Monday. 
The web-enabled National Automated Archival Information Retrieval System
(NAAIRS) would enhance the objectives of the Promotion of Access to
Information Act adopted last year, Ngubane said. 



BBC News 5/14/01
Funding drive for Dahl museum
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/arts/newsid_1330000/1330430.s
tm

Roald Dahl's widow Felicity has launched an appeal to help pay for a museum
in the author's name in Buckinghamshire. 
Felicity Dahl has already pulled together £1m for the centre in Great
Missenden, Buckinghamshire, but needs more, having failed in a bid to garner
Lottery cash. 
The centre is to be known as the Roald Dahl Museum and Literary Centre and
will be home to the complete Roald Dahl archive, including early manuscripts
and letters. 



Corpus Christi Caller-Times 5/14/01
Government is online
Local residents can save time during business
http://www.caller.com/2001/may/14/today/localnew/26184.html

by Jason Ma
Standing in line to apply for licenses and to pay government fees is
becoming a thing of the past for the Internet savvy. 
The proliferation of online information and services through Nueces County
and the City of Corpus Christi is saving visits to the county courthouse and
City Hall, which can save people with government business a lunch hour or a
day off. 



Asbury Park Press 5/14/01
County ready for Clerk's Office relocation
http://www.app.com/news/app/story/0,2110,393575,00.html

by Roya Rafei
Freehold Bureau
FREEHOLD -- Monmouth County clerk's office, its 48 employees and thousands
of documents, are scheduled to move next month into a new building with a
monthly rent of $36,800.
The county is renting a privately owned, newly constructed 29,000-square
feet building on Mechanic Street to house the clerk's offices, including
volumes of documents such as mortgages and deeds. 



The Herald of Everett 5/14/01
Seahawks barely made profit, papers reveal
http://www.heraldnet.com/Stories/01/5/14/13742449.cfm

Herald News Services
Confidential NFL financial documents, never before seen in full detail even
by the 31 teams in the league, reveal a robust enterprise that gets more so
each year as team after team moves into new stadiums, many paid for by
taxpayers. 



Philadelphia Inquirer 5/14/01
N.J. Senate is slated to vote on public-records access bill
http://inq.philly.com/content/inquirer/2001/05/14/local_news/JLEG14.htm

by John P. McAlpin
Associated Press
- After years of discussion, public-interest groups, media organizations,
law-enforcement officials and victim-rights advocates have agreed on a bill
lawmakers say will broaden access to government records. 
The state Senate is scheduled to vote on it today. 



New York Times 5/14/01
Digital signatures spark debate
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/14/technology/14SIGS.html?searchpv=nytToday

by Amy Zuckerman
In processing medical payments, the longstanding promise of computer
networks has been their ability to convey insurance claims and other billing
records, without need of the paperwork and documents that can be delayed in
the mail or waylaid in some bureaucrat's file drawer. 
But for Peter Waegemann, that promise is a threat to insurance companies,
hospitals, doctors and government agencies - unless the parties in an
electronic transaction can be sure of one another's identities. Otherwise,
he says, all parties could leave themselves open to fraud or legal
liabilities in the event of an error or a network intruder. 



New York Times 5/14/01
Letters from America's Wars
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-War-Letters.html?searchpv=aponli
ne

Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) -- They are letters from America's wars, pages of a national
autobiography revealing the broadest range of human emotions amid the shock
and horror of combat.
When author Andrew Carroll began Project Legacy, a one-person campaign to
preserve as many American war letters as possible, he was deluged with
urgent messages from the past.



Fort Worth Star Telegram 5/14/01
Former Laredo city employee given probation for issuing false documents
http://www.star-telegram.com/news/doc/1047/1:STATE13/1:STATE130513101.html

Associated Press
LAREDO, Texas -- A former city employee in Laredo has been sentenced to
three years of probation for creating false documents while working in the
city's office for the state Bureau of Vital Statistics. 



Baltimore Sun 5/14/01
Digital dinosaurs
Dead Media Project takes note of departed technology
http://www.sunspot.net/technology/bal-pl.dead14may14.story?coll=bal%2Dtechno
logy%2Dheadlines

by Doug Bedell
Knight Ridder/tribune
Technological history is littered with the carcasses of fantastic
inventions.
Where are the computer punch cards? What happened to the mimeograph machine
on which your third-grade teacher cranked out those daunting tests?
Even more important: How will future generations evaluate the inventions
when the machines themselves are extinct?



Abilene Register-News 5/14/01
Former Laredo city employee given probation for issuing false documents
http://www.reporternews.com/2001/texas/false0514.html

Associated Press
LAREDO, Texas (AP) - A former city employee in Laredo has been sentenced to
three years of probation for creating false documents while working in the
city's office for the state Bureau of Vital Statistics.


The Guardian 5/14/01
City secrets held by PR firm leaked
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,490294,00.html

by Paul Murphy
Financial Editor
Brunswick Group, the City's premier financial public relations company,
handling highly sensitive information for more than a third of Britain's top
companies, has suffered a serious security lapse, apparently leaving scores
of fringe stockbrokers and market speculators with secret details of planned
corporate deals. 
A dossier of information, part of which has been seen by the Guardian, is
circulating in the Square Mile, giving code names for a string of potential
multi-billion-pound mergers, acquisitions and flotations. 



Charlotte.com 5/14/01
Tight security adds to tension
Schools must guard high-stakes exams
http://www.charlotte.com/partners/news/full/news_full_2_May14.htm

by Marion Callahan
They are fiercely guarded from inception: Drafts are shredded. Creators are
sworn to secrecy. Criminal charges and possible job termination await any
teacher, publisher or courier who dares breach security. 
In the new educational world of high-stakes testing, the state exams landing
on desks in most N.C. public schools today receive the hush-hush treatment
of classified CIA documents. 



Reuters 5/14/01
UK public relations firm investigates leak
http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/010514/l14165638_2.html

LONDON, May 14 (Reuters) - One of Britain's top public relations firms,
Brunswick Group Ltd, said on Monday it had started an urgent inquiry into a
breach of security, after confidential information about some of its clients
was published in a London newspaper.





Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Manager, Records Management Group
Woodside Summit Group Inc
Midlothian, Virginia
Office: 804-744-1247 x23
Fax: 804-744-4947
mailto:peter.kurilecz@woodsidesummitgroup.com

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