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RAIN 7/26 Part 1: SirCam, Reagan Papers, Vatican



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BBC 7/24/01
Sircam virus steals files
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1454000/1454155.stm

by Mark Ward
A computer virus called Sircam is using some clever tricks to spread itself
and potentially sensitive files around the net.
The virus strikes PCs running Windows, plunders address books for new places
to send itself and steals random documents from a machine's hard disk.


Billings Gazette 7/24/01
Capitol Concepts: Secretary of state looks to the future
http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?section=local&display=content/local/b

rown.inc

by Ericka Schenck Smith
HELENA - Secretary of State Bob Brown's office looks much like it did at the
beginning of the last century, but he runs it with an eye toward the future.
"The service that we provide is affected and impacted significantly by
technology," Brown said recently. Surrounded by framed photos of Teddy
Roosevelt and Mike Mansfield and a drawing by his daughter of an elephant's
rear-end, the 53-year-old Brown expounded on the possibilities.


Boston Globe 7/24/01
Work halted on Vatican's wartime role
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/205/nation/Work_halted_on_Vatican_s_wartime_

role+.shtml

by Michael Paulson
A panel of prominent Catholic and Jewish scholars investigating the thorny
history of Vatican conduct during World War II announced the suspension of
its work yesterday because the Holy See is refusing to grant the scholars
access to archival material.



St. Petersburg Times 7/24/01
Brown schools faulted on records
http://www.sptimes.com/News/072401/Citrus/Brown_Schools_faulted.shtml

by Jim Ross
LECANTO -- A state inspector general has finished a limited review of the
Brown Schools.
The findings: a mixed bag.
The Department of Children and Families' inspector general checked three
complaints that former Brown employees lodged. They alleged that Brown billed
for therapeutic services that staff didn't provide, committed Medicaid fraud
and allowed drunken workers on campus.


CNN 7/24/01
Vatican war role inquiry suspended
http://europe.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/07/24/vatican.holocaust/index.html

VATICAN CITY -- An inquiry into the actions of war-time Pope Pius XII during
the World War II has been suspended, The Associated Press reports.
A panel of Jewish and Catholic historians, jointly selected by the Vatican
and a Jewish group, has suspended its research because the Vatican has failed
to open archives crucial to the investigation, said AP.


CW360 7/24/01
Government slated over IT records farce
http://www.cw360.com/bin/bladerunner?REQUNIQ=996110158&REQSESS=ki5215U&REQHOST

=site1&2131REQEVENT=&CARTI=104350&CCAT=2&CCHAN=28&CFLAV=1

by Bruce Ackland
Ministers and top civil servants at two of the government's biggest
departments have admitted that they do not keep central records of their
major IT outsourcers and contracts.
The Ministry of Defence and the Department for Transport, Local Government
and Regions made the embarrassing revelation in response to parliamentary
questions from Labour MP Frank Dobson last week.


CIO 7/15/01
Ethical standards for IT analysts
http://www.cio.com/archive/071501/edit.html

CIOs from large companies spend more than $500,000 a year on IT analyst
services. Yet the information they're paying for is often not as objective or
thoroughly analyzed as you might expect, given the price tag.


Wired 7/24/01
Famous photos frozen forever
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,45379,00.html

by Reena Jana
Talk about creepy. Bill Gates' minions are currently laying the floor for a
10,000 square foot, tomblike facility in rural Pennsylvania to preserve, in
part, an image of Albert Einstein's tongue.
It's the future home of the Bettmann Archive, a renowned collection of more
than 11 million historic photographs and negatives -- including such iconic
images as Einstein sticking out his tongue and the Wright Brothers in flight.


The Business Journal (Milwaukee) 7/23/01
Fiserv acquires Texas firm
http://milwaukee.bcentral.com/milwaukee/stories/2001/07/23/daily4.html

Fiserv Inc. has acquired Austin, Texas-based EPSIIA Corp., a provider of
large-scale electronic archival, retrieval and presentment products and
services.
Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.


Federal Computer Week 7/19/01
Florida site tracks world criminals
http://www.civic.com/civic/articles/2001/0716/web-fla-07-19-01.asp

by Brian Robinson
A Web site developed for the Seminole County, Fla., sheriff's department has
attracted the attention of law enforcement around the world as a way of
tracking criminals who cross state and international borders in search of
loot.


FreedomForum.org 7/24/01
Bush administration again delays release of Reagan papers
http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=14471

by Phillip Taylor
Ronald Reagan's White House records, due to be released to the public earlier
this year, remain sealed as the Bush administration recently asked for a
second extension in which to consider their release.


The Herald-Journal 7/23/01
Plan to buy Civil War relics criticized
http://www.goupstate.com/hj/news/0723relics.asp

AP
COLUMBIA -- The state is spending $3 million for a collection of Civil War
naval relics -- six times what the State Museum has paid out for all
acquisitions in the past decade.
Some members of South Carolina's archival community think that the state's
museums have been shortchanged financially.


Detroit News 7/24/01
Hartland Township tries digital documents
http://www.detnews.com/2001/livingston/0107/24/b05l-251451.htm

by Deborah Davis Locker
Residents in need of township documents will soon receive some help from
technology.
Hartland Township will spend $17,594 for an electronic filing system.


Civic.com 7/18/01
Miami-Dade launches portal
http://www.civic.com/civic/articles/2001/0716/web-miami-07-18-01.asp

by Dibya Sarkar
Miami-Dade County, the largest metropolitan area in Florida, recently
unveiled a portal that officials said would not only provide around-the-clock
service, but would make government more efficient and accountable.


New York Times 7/24/01
Adobe opposes prosecution in hacking case
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/24/technology/24HACK.html

by Amy Harmon
In an unexpected turnaround, Adobe Systems (news/quote) called yesterday for
the release of a Russian programmer accused of violating American copyright
law after he helped create software that can crack Adobe's security software
for electronic books.


New York Times 7/19/01
Cracking the code of online censorship
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/19/technology/circuits/19HACK.html

by Jennifer 8. Lee
Every year the Electronic Frontier Foundation hands out its Pioneer Awards to
people who have played crucial roles in the history of technology. Recipients
have included visionaries like Ivan Sutherland, creator of some of the first
computer graphics programs; Douglas C. Engelbart, an inventor of the mouse;
and Linus Torvalds, inventor of the popular Linux operating system.


New York Times 7/19/01
Looking for clues in Junior's keystrokes
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/19/technology/19PARE.html

by Lisa Guernsey
It was in the spring of last year when a divorced mother of two teenagers in
Livingston, N.J., realized that her 14-year-old son's online habits called
for drastic steps.


New York Times 7/19/01
Mining a dot-com disaster for Ebay sales
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/19/technology/circuits/19AUCT.html

by Todd Lappin
Internet stocks remain pariahs on Wall Street, but on eBay (news/quote), the
smart money is moving into beleaguered dot-coms. Take Webvan, the online
grocery service, for example. Last week, it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
protection and ended operation after spending almost $1.2 billion in startup
capital.


The Oklahoman 7/24/01
Crew strives to save old emblem
http://www.oklahoman.com/cgi-bin/show_article?ID=724049&pic=none&TP=getarticle

by Mike Hinton
The state seal that visitors for decades have viewed on the Capitol ceiling
can be salvaged, engineers said Monday.
But Capitol architects and historians are arguing whether the original seal
should be installed in a new $22 million dome or placed in the Oklahoma
Historical Society building for public viewing.



Government Computer News 7/23/01
ON your MARC
http://www.gcn.com/vol20_no20a/tech-report/4652-1.html

by Dipka Bhambhani
Firewalls and funding have held back federal libraries from sharing their
information more widely.
Now, one by one, about 300 federal libraries have begun widening the
information highway through the use of a protocol for searching Web and
machine-readable cataloging, or MARC, records and by adopting variants of a
Web library management system from Sirsi Corp. of Huntsville, Ala.


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

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