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RAIN 7/19: IM, copyright arrest, new seal



Richmond Times Dispatch 7/19/01
IM: rapid, risky
http://www.timesdispatch.com/frontpage/MGBAOJJVBPC.html

by McGregor Mccance
Instant messaging's growing popularity in the workplace may set up an
instant replay of security risks once overlooked or ignored with the
corporate use of e-mail.
Market research firm Gartner Dataquest characterizes business use of
popular, free instant messaging services as "playing with a loaded gun."
The firm cautions that free messaging services are not reliable or secure,
and that they can serve as vehicles for virus-infected attachments that slip
by scanning systems.


SiliconValley.com 7/18/01
Arrest of Russian programmer will test copyright law
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/svtop/arrest071801.htm

by Elise Ackerman
Mercury News
In a case that tests the limits of a controversial new copyright law,
federal agents arrested a Russian computer programmer in Las Vegas and
charged him with trafficking in software code that would enable users to
read and copy some electronic books without restrictions.
The U.S. Attorney's Office in San Francisco announced the charge against
Dmitry Sklyarov on Tuesday. Federal prosecutors said they believe it is the
first time anyone has been criminally charged under the 1998 law, known as
the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

New York Times 7/18/01
U.S. arrests Russina cryptographer as copyright violator
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/18/technology/18CRYP.html?searchpv=nytToday

by Jennifer 8. Lee
In one of the first cases of criminal prosecution under a 1998 federal
digital copyright law, a 27-year-old Russian cryptographer was arrested at a
Las Vegas hotel on Monday morning, a day after giving a presentation to a
large convention of computer hackers on decrypting the software used to
protect electronic books.


NineMSN 7/18/01
Asylum seekers destroy own documents: Ruddock
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/story_15925.asp

Immigration Minister Philip Ruddock accused many asylum seekers of
destroying their own documentation before reaching Australia to increase
their chances of gaining refugee status.
Mr Ruddock said this had made him consider introducing new rules to give
preference to applications of asylum seekers who still had relevant
documents when they arrived here.


People's Daily 7/18/01
Beijing to set up digital archives for ancient trees
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200107/18/eng20010718_75251.html

Chinese capital Beijing will set up archival records for all its 18,179
ancient trees grown in the suburbs by using advanced digital technology, the
Beijing Morning Post has reported.
An official with the city's forestry bureau said the purpose of the tree
census is for better protection of ancient trees.


CIO 7/15/01
Iceland's Dilemma: Privacy vs Progress
http://www.cio.com/archive/071501/dilemma.html

by Stephanie Overby
The first thing you see on the Icelandair video screen after takeoff on the
flight from the United States to Keflavik International Airport isn't a
sweeping tour of Iceland's famous glaciers, geysers, healing hot springs or
vast lava fields. It isn't even an introduction to the country's lucrative
fishing industry or its legendary Norse sagas. It's a three-minute
presentation on Iceland's newest national treasure, DeCode Genetics.


Federal Computer Week 7/18/01
Optical scanning best for ballots
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/0716/web-voting-07-18-01.asp

by William Matthews
High technology does not offer the best answer to the problem of inaccurate
voting machines, experts from two leading technology universities have
concluded.
Internet voting and other forms of electronic voting technology do not
promise substantially better results than the trouble-plagued mechanical
voting machines in use today. But a medium-level technology - optical
scanning - does, say researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and the California Institute of Technology.


Federal Computer Week 7/18/01
TSP board fires contractor
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/0716/web-tsp-07-18-01.asp

by Christopher J. Dorobek
The board that oversees the Thrift Savings Plan ended a tumultuous
relationship Tuesday by terminating its contract with American Management
Systems Inc., the company hired in 1997 to modernize the federal retirement
program's systems.


Government Executive 7/18/01
TSP board fires, sues computer modernization firm
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0701/071801b1.htm

by Brian Friel
The Thrift Savings Plan board on Tuesday fired the contractor that has spent
four years trying to modernize the retirement savings program's computer
system.
The board also filed a $350 million lawsuit against American Management
Systems of Fairfax, Va., in the U.S. District Court for the District of
Columbia. The lawsuit seeks $50 million in actual damages and $300 million
in punitive damages for AMS' "breach of contract and fraud in its engagement
with the board," TSP officials said in a statement.


The Guardian 7/17/01
Sir Denis Thatcher to open Cambridge archive extension
http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/0,9830,523130,00.html

by Lee Elliot Major
A new building housing the papers of Baroness Margaret Thatcher will be
unveiled at Cambridge University by her husband, Sir Denis, this week.
On Thursday, Sir Denis will preside at an opening ceremony for the extension
to the Archives Centre at Churchill College, the national and commonwealth
memorial to Sir Winston Churchill.
The new purpose-built wing will house many of the papers Baroness Thatcher
produced as prime minister.



Honolulu Advertiser 7/17/01
Well-know Big Island fish auction plans to close
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2001/Jul/17/ln/ln32a.html

by Hugh Clark
HILO, Hawai'i - The Suisan Co. Fish Auction Market near Hilo Bay made it
through two deadly tsunamis, but will not survive a flood of government
paperwork that company officials said is forcing the operation to close
after nearly 95 years in business.


Houma Courier 7/18/01
Sunken Civil War ship found in river
http://www.houmatoday.com/news/stories/6454001003n6.html

by John DeSantis
Dan McDonald of Houma slowed his boat to a 4-knot crawl, allowing the
sensors and gadgets it carries to map a patch of bottom near the mouth of
the Mississippi River.
A veteran surveyor of Louisiana's waterways, McDonald knew he was looking
for a needle in a haystack. His search for an ironclad Civil War gunship
that went down in flames 136 years ago could last for days or turn up
nothing at all.


Insight Magazine 8/07/01
Forgotten Dead of St. Elizabeths
http://www.insightmag.com/archive/200108076.shtml

by Kelly Patricia O'Meara
Tens of thousands of patients have died and been buried at mental
institutions. But recordkeeping has relegated their memory - and their
remains - to the dustbin of history.
They are the forgotten ones - their deaths often went unrecorded in the
public logs and frequently their passing went unnoticed by their own
families, who had long despaired of them. Their graves often are unmarked
and, in some cases, all that is detailed in official documents about them is
their hospital identification number and a laconic note on the causes of
their deaths.


Naples News 7/18/01
Harris says no public records erased from computers
http://www.naplesnews.com/01/07/florida/d656494a.htm

AP
TALLAHASSEE - Democrats are calling on Gov. Jeb Bush to open a criminal
investigation into whether Secretary of State Katherine Harris had public
records related to the presidential election recount erased from state
computers.
But Harris said in a statement released late Monday from South America,
where she and Bush are on a trade mission, that no public records laws were
broken.


New York Times 7/18/01
Official defends her conduct in the vote counting in Florida
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/18/politics/18FLOR.html?searchpv=nytToday

by  Dana Canedy
Miami July 17 -- Responding to an article in The New York Times about the
treatment of absentee ballots last November in the presidential election in
Florida, Secretary of State Katherine Harris has defended her role in the
election, saying she acted properly and without bias.


The News & Observer 7/18/01
Federal audit faults loan documentation
http://www.newsobserver.com/ncwire/news/Story/801552p-801036c.html

AP
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) -- Federal auditors say the city of Durham failed to
document properly small business loans worth $828,000 over the past two
years.
At least 11 of the 24 loans are more than three months behind, according to
the audit released Tuesday.
Federal money paid for the loans, and the city could be forced to pay back
at least a portion of the total, said Charlene Montford, the city's director
of Housing and Community Development.
"If we cannot provide evidence that an activity is eligible ... then that
generally triggers a payment to HUD," Montford said Tuesday.


New York Times 7/15/01
A protective path paved in granola
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/15/weekinreview/15LOHR.html

by Steve Lohr
To understand the state of play for privacy in the digital age, it helps to
look at environmentalism as it was taking shape in the late 1960's.
At the time, there was a growing concern about the environment. The politics
were reactive and grass-roots, led initially by activist groups rather than
traditional politicians. The economic tradeoffs were difficult to measure
and a subject of much debate. Individual cases of serious pollution caused
alarm, but the environmental issue also mattered in a broader sense,
affecting "quality of life."



New York Times 7/18/01
Mexico plans limited release of secret intelligence files
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/18/international/18FILE.html?searchpv=nytToda
y

by Ginger Thompson
Mexico City, July 17 -- In a move aimed at uncovering the truth about one of
the most painful periods in Mexico's history, Interior Minister Santiago
Creel has announced that he will allow human rights investigators to review
a cache of files that had been kept secret by the federal intelligence
agency.


New York Times 7/18/01
Publisher to appeal digital-rights ruling
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/18/technology/18BOOK.html?searchpv=nytToday

The book publishing giant Random House said yesterday that it would appeal a
district court's decision that a book contract does not automatically
include the exclusive right to publish digital editions of the same text.


Rocky Mountain News 7/18/01
'Curation crisis' imperils artifacts
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_752386,00
.html

by Jim Erickson
Thousands of archaeological artifacts are threatened with irreparable damage
because museums across Colorado don't meet federal storage standards,
according to a committee of professional archaeologists and curators.
Lack of space and improper storage of government-owned collections has
created a Colorado "curation crisis" that could shut down all archaeological
work (on public land) within two years, according to a draft version of a
new report from a Colorado Council of Professional Archaeologists committee.




Technology Review 7/16/01
A standard for e-comments
http://www.techreview.com/web/mcdonald/mcdonald071601.asp

by Glenn McDonald
W3C's Annotea lets you tack information to existing Web pages.
Got a few choice thoughts about what you see on the Web? Enter Annotea, a
new technology that lets you annotate existing Web documents with commentary
of your own.


Washington Post 7/18/01
Ex-printing company CEO charged
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15590-2001Jul18.html

AP
NEW YORK -- The former chief executive of a printing company that makes
stock certificates and other secure documents was charged Wednesday with
securities fraud.
A federal indictment accuses Morris Weissman of deceiving investors by
falsely inflating earnings for American Banknote Corp. and American Bank
Note Holographics Inc. between 1996 and 1998.


Editor & Publisher 7/17/01
Breathing life into newspaper morgues
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/bpiep/20010717/en/_b_h1_breathing_life_into_new
spaper_morgues_h1_b__1.html

by Jim Rosenberg
Mediterraneans know a thing or two about preserving the past. At Nexpo 2001,
the newest ways to save, show, and spread the printed word came from lands
that gave us the Psalmist and the Gospels of the oldest best-seller and
first beneficiary of movable type.
Systems developed in Israel by Olive Software Inc. and in Greece by
Lambrakis Press combine advantages of print presentation, digital files, and
Web browser accessibility.


Launch.com 7/17/01
Buffalo Springfield's 'Boxed Set' released
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/lc/20010717/en/buffalo_springfield_s_box_set_re
leased_1.html

by Gary Graff
Detroit -- (7/17/01, 7 a.m. ET) -- Out today (July 17) is Box Set, the
long-awaited four-CD anthology from Buffalo Springfield, the short-lived
(less than three years) but still-celebrated band that brought to prominence
future superstars Neil Young and Stephen Stills, along with Poco co-founder
Richie Furay. Box Set includes material from all three of the group's
albums, plus three dozen previously-unreleased demos, outtakes, and
alternative performances.


New York Times 7/18/01
Debating who controls Holocaust artifacts
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/18/arts/18BRUN.html?searchpv=nytToday

by Dinitia Smith
As the the years lengthen and survivors die off, the memory of the Holocaust
is increasingly embodied in written accounts and artifacts. But who owns
this physical evidence?


Reuters 7/16/01
FileNet to unveil new business software, start hiring
http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/010716/n16258213.html

COSTA MESA, Calif., July 16 (Reuters) - Document management software firm
FileNet Corp. (NasdaqNM:FILE - news) on Tuesday will announce the beta
release of a new software line that could add hundreds of millions of
dollars to its annual revenues over the next few years, chief executive Lee
Roberts told Reuters.



Associated Press 7/16/01
Judge blocks campaign record release
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010716/us/fec_democrats_3.html

by Sharon Theimer
WASHINGTON (AP) - A judge blocked a federal agency Monday from releasing
documents from its inquiry into campaign activities coordinated by the
Democratic National Committee and the AFL-CIO.
U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler's preliminary injunction, sought by the
Democrats and the union, came the day before the Federal Election Commission
planned to release thousands of pages from its probe.


Associated Press 7/18/01
Quayle gives memorabilia to museum
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010718/en/dan_quayle_3.html

HUNTINGTON, Ind. (AP) - Former Vice President Dan Quayle has donated 8 tons
of documents and other memorabilia of his political life to the Dan Quayle
Center and Museum.


Associated Press 7/18/01
Queen Elizabeth presents new seal
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010718/wl/britain_great_seal_1.html

LONDON (AP) - Queen Elizabeth II presented the government with a new Great
Seal of the Realm on Wednesday - the second in her 49-year reign -
continuing a tradition that has endured for a thousand years.
The monarch gave the silver stamp to the Lord Chancellor, Lord Irvine,
during a meeting of the Privy Council at Buckingham Palace. As Britain's top
legal official, the Lord Chancellor is also keeper of the seal.


Reuters 7/18/01
South Carolina doctors sue HHS over privacy rule
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010718/hl/privacy_1.html

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A state medical association is suing federal
health officials over sweeping new patient privacy rules that allegedly
violate constitutional protections.
The South Carolina Medical Association (SCMA) is seeking to force the US
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to overturn the rules, which
establish national standards for how personal health information is used and
distributed and set criminal and civil penalties for breaching patient
privacy.




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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