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RAIN 6/05:Hiding hacks?, satellite imagery, e-mail



There are 20 stories in today's posting.

Dispatch online 6/4/01
Call to probe BTC records
http://www.dispatch.co.za/2001/06/04/easterncape/AHAVE.HTM

by Eddie Botha
Business Editor
EAST LONDON -- Police have asked the Department of Labour to assign auditors
to investigate the records that the Border Training Centre (BTC) have
submitted to the department as claims for payments for training at the
centre.
This follows in the wake of an earlier report that the department had
accused the BTC of fraudulently claiming R1,3 million from the department
for training courses for which there was no proof of trainee attendance.
Last week a selection committee, which is run by the department, decided not
to allocate any more training to the BTC until the matter had been resolved.



Daily Herald 6/4/01
The Web has millions tracing their roots
http://www.dailyherald.com/main_story.asp?intid=3704643

by Megan Vandre
Medill News Service
On any given day at the Illinois State Archives in Springfield, the official
repository of the state's historical documents, perhaps as many as 90
percent of the patrons are amateur genealogists, according to Director John
Daly.
"That's probably true of other archives, too," Daly said.


Des Moines Register 6/4/01
Limited resources slows probe of computer records
http://www.dmregister.com/news/stories/c4780934/14908486.html

by Tom Alex
Iowa is months behind in examining computers seized in criminal
investigations, with only one state specialist certified to handle the
growing number of cases.
Computer cases referred to the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation lab
in Des Moines likely will top 100 for the first time this year.
Some crimes involving computer records can take weeks to investigate. An
average case, which can involve several computers, can take four or five
days.


Detroit News 6/4/01
State looks at Motor City records
http://www.detnews.com/2001/metro/0106/04/a01-232188.htm

by Becky Yerak
DETROIT -- MotorCity Casino is being criticized for lax oversight that might
have let more than 20 employees embezzle at least $100,000, Michigan's
casino regulator said. It's the first state challenge of a Detroit casino's
business practices.
"There was an ongoing embezzlement scheme over six months," Michigan Gaming
Control Board Executive Director Nelson Westrin said Friday. "And it went
undetected because controls and procedures weren't adhered to."


Dallas Morning News 6/4/01
Judge denies Attorney General's motion to dismiss plaintiff's in DNA bank
suit
http://www.dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/385058_dnabank04e.html

Associated Press
LUBBOCK, Texas - A state district judge ruled today to allow a case
involving DNA samples at Texas Tech to proceed, despite objections from the
Texas Attorney General's office.
No trial date was set for the lawsuit, filed by some 700 relatives of
Alzheimers patients.


Federal Computer Week 6/3/01
E-mail overload
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/0604/cov-email-06-04-01.asp

by Brian Robinson
For the most part, federal information technology shops are humming along,
adequately managing the increasing number of e-mail messages flowing into
and within agencies. Although they complain about the mounting e-mail
messages they have to read and file, federal employees say the problem is
manageable.


Federal Computer Week 5/28/01
FBI foul-up sends message
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/0528/pol-sprehe-05-28-01.asp

by J. Timothy Sprehe
The FBI recently got a painful reminder of the business case for good
records management. The agency revealed the existence of more than 3,000
pages of previously undisclosed records in the Oklahoma City bombing case
less than a week before Timothy McVeigh's scheduled May 16 execution. The
incident delayed the execution at least several weeks, further undermined
public confidence in the FBI, revealed serious agency management
deficiencies and fueled conspiracy theories for decades to come.



Federal Computer Week 6/4/01
How some jurisdictions are managing
http://www.fcw.com/civic/articles/2001/jun/civ-feat2bx-06-01.asp

by Ed McKenna
Some jurisdictions are automating their recordkeeping process to make e-mail
messages easier to manage and access.
For example, five years ago Hillsborough County, Fla., began using an
in-house system, called Mailbag, to manage its e-mail messages. The system
archives messages and allows citizens to perform searches of millions of
records dating back to 1992, said Lelia Blevins, director of administrative
services for the county.



Federal Computer Week 6/4/01
How long do e-mail messages stay fresh?
http://www.fcw.com/civic/articles/2001/jun/civ-feat2bx2-06-01.asp

by Ed McKenna
In Connecticut, the Office of the Public Records Administrator and State
Archives oversees the handling of all public records, including e-mail
messages.
When it came to deciding what records should be preserved, officials first
had to determine whether e-mail was covered by the state's legal definition
of a public record. The state defines a record as "any recorded data or
information relating to the conduct of the public's business prepared,
owned, used or received by a public agency, whether such data or information
be handwritten, typed, tape-recorded, printed, photostatted, photographed or
recorded by any method."



Federal Computer Week 6/4/01
Tackling the e-mail tsunami
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/0604/cov-emailbx-06-04-01.asp

by Brian Robinson
Putting together an effective e-mail management program in any organization
means first overcoming some inherent resistance in the organization itself,
according to Bassam Zarkout, vice president of products for e-mail
management vendor ByteQuest Technologies Inc., Ottawa. There are usually
four different groups that can affect the issue: n Information technology
staff: This group looks at e-mail management from the systems side of the
equation and how it will affect the database. IT workers usually want to
limit the size of the database, which in turn means limiting the size of
e-mail messages and how long they are kept in the system.



Federal Computer Week 6/4/01
To save or delete?
http://www.fcw.com/civic/articles/2001/jun/civ-feature2-06-01.asp

by  Ed McKenna
Indiana State Rep. Jeff Thompson sparked controversy earlier this year with
the press and First Amendment advocates by proposing to limit the public's
access to government officials' e-mail.


Reuters 6/1/01
Getty Images Web effort shrugs off Art.com loss
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010601/wr/tech_gettyimages_dc_2.html

by Scott Hillis
SEATTLE (Reuters) - At first glance, it might look like Getty Images Inc.
(NasdaqNM:GETY - news), the stock photography supplier backed by heirs of
the Getty oil fortune, is just the latest victim of the dot-com collapse.
Last week the Seattle-based company wrote the last chapter in its expensive
foray into online consumer retailing when it sold its Art.com site to
Internet poster store Allwall.com.



Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel 6/4/01
Images archived at UW science center capture natural and man-made disasters
http://www.jsonline.com/news/nat/jun01/uwstars04060301.asp

by John Fauber
Madison - Hovering 22,500 miles over the equator in a continuous downward
gaze, five geostationary satellites monitor the planet and beam down a daily
collage of images to a rooftop here.
Climatic, volcanic, and environmental pictures make up the vast majority of
the imagery, which has been piling up at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison's Space Science and Engineering Center since the 1970s.
You never know what kind of picture will show up.



Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel 6/4/01
Satellites redefining our view of history
http://www.jsonline.com/news/state/jun01/space04060301a.asp

by John Fauber
Looking at a rare picture of the space shuttle Challenger explosion, Chad
Kornack had to rearrange his feelings about a defining event of his
generation that happened 15 years ago.
It's an eerie image completely unlike the one that most Americans and
millions of former school kids such as Kornack now have burned into their
minds. This picture was taken by a satellite 22,500 miles above the Earth
and shows the disaster as a tiny, misplaced cloud off the Florida coast.



LLRX.com 6/1/01
Navigating the maze of criminal records retrieval - updated
http://www.llrx.com/features/criminal2.htm

by Lynn Peterson
A check of criminal records is standard procedure when due diligence
research is conducted on individuals. However, even in this age of instant
access to digitized information, old fashioned "gum shoe" techniques usually
must be relied upon for the research of criminal records. This article will
discuss how criminal records are maintained and the alternatives available
for retrieval.



New York Times 6/4/01
Calls for Slavery Restitution Getting Louder
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/04/national/04SLAV.html?searchpv=nytToday

by Tamar Levin
It has been more than a century since Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman ordered
that the coastlands confiscated in the Civil War be divided into 40-acre
plots and distributed to thousands of former slaves.
After Abraham Lincoln's assassination, Andrew Johnson rescinded the order
and took back the land that had been distributed. Since then, the idea of
compensating African-Americans for the sins of two and a half centuries of
slavery has hovered in the background, far from reality. But now the
movement for reparations is gaining steam.


Toledo Blade 6/4/01
Rossford resource keeps pulse of city
Public service is way of life for historian
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/artikkel?Avis=TO&Dato=20010604&Kate
gori=NEWS17&Lopenr=106040017&Ref=AR>

by Brian Crocker
When Lucille Keeton arrived in Rossford in 1920 as a girl, no one could have
foreseen the impact she would have on the community. Now, after 80 years of
steady effort in the city, her impact is impossible to ignore.
Mrs. Keeton, 90, has spent most of her life in public service.


Wired 6/4/01
Is military hiding hacks?
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,44190,00.html

by Michelle Delio
Staffers at Alldas, an archive that maintains copies of websites that have
been involuntarily altered, believes that their site is being deliberately
blocked from accessing defaced websites owned by the United States military.

Alldas staffers believe that the U.S. military is trying to cover up
defacements of its websites by blocking Alldas' access to the greater part
of the military's network.


Women's Enews 6/4/01
Book store owner fights for free speech
http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/572

by Jennifer Woodhull
DENVER (WOMENSENEWS)--On a clear day, you can see Pike's Peak from the
four-story Tattered Cover book shop in Cherry Creek North. Here, you can sit
in an antique, overstuffed chair and peruse "Jane Eyre," or perhaps check
out sources in the latest pop-culture magazine for chocolate-covered goodies
shaped like genitalia.
You might also bump into one of the nation's most intense First Amendment
devotees--one willing to battle both in court and the court of public
opinion to protect her customers' privacy. Her commitment is echoed in a
pledge, prominently displayed on the wall of the store: "We maintain that it
is our responsibility to actively resist censorship that limits your right
as our customers to make choices for yourselves."


Associated Press 6/1/01
Ex-spies are candidates in Bulgaria
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010601/wl/bulgaria_spies_1.html

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) - A parliamentary commission reviewing communist-era
files said Friday that 78 candidates for parliament in June 17 elections had
served as agents of the communist secret police.
Six of those candidates already have served in the country's four
post-communist parliaments, and a total of 52 former secret police agents
have been elected, according to earlier revelations by the commission.


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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