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RAIN 8/09: Archives moves, Florida, Glass computer, RC4



There are over 30  stories in this posting

ABC New 8/8/01
Centrelink defends accessing student records
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newslink/weekly/newsnat-8aug2001-25.htm

Jobs agency Centrelink has defended the practice of downloading student
records from computers across the country.
The agency's wide-ranging access to records without the consent of parents
has been uncovered at a senior Canberra secondary school.


Ananova 8/8/01
300 years of government documents posted online
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_369905.html?menu=news.technology

An online archive of government documents dating back three centuries has
been launched.
The British Library-backed service will make over 23,000 official records
freely available.


Asheville Citizen Times 8/8/01
Register of deeds considers putting records on Internet
http://www.citizen-times.com/columnists/mbarrett/13417592.shtml

by Mike Barrett
So the couple up the street sold their house a couple of weeks ago and you'd
like to know how much they got for it.
If you're just dying to find out, you can drive down to the county
courthouse, spend a little time in the Register of Deeds office and get a
pretty good idea. If you are more patient, some information will eventually
appear in the Citizen-Times real estate section and on a commercial Web
site.


Atlanta Journal-Constitution 8/8/01
State's archives to leave Atlanta
http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/epaper/editions/wednesday/local_news_b3079d
0225db10391030.html

by Gary Hendricks
South metro Atlanta got a much needed shot in the arm Tuesday when Secretary
of State Cathy Cox announced that the state had finalized the deal to move
the Georgia Archives from downtown Atlanta to Morrow.
Cox's good news followed an earlier announcement Tuesday from U.S. Sen. Max
Cleland (D-Ga.) that he is pushing for $30.5 million in federal funds to
build a new federal archives building on the same Morrow site --- Gateway
Village, a project planned for property next to Clayton College & State
University.


Chicago Tribune 8/8/01
Harris' PC drives still stir questions
http://chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0108080268aug08.story?coll=ch
i%2Dnewsnationworld%2Dhed

by Mark Silva and Linda Kleindienst
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- The dueling roles of Katherine Harris, chief
vote-counter for the state of Florida and campaign partisan for President
Bush, emerged from an exhaustive examination of thousands of computer files
in her office.
Compiled only now--nine months after the controversial presidential
election--copies of the internal hard drives from personal computers run in
the secretary of state's office after the presidential election still leave
many questions unanswered.


Chicago Tribune 8/7/01
Lennon's vitriolic letter up for auction
http://chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0108070162aug07.story?coll=ch
i%2Dnewsnationworld%2Dhed

LONDON, ENGLAND -- A draft of a letter from John Lennon to fellow Beatle
Paul McCartney and his wife, Linda, exposing the strains in the 1970 breakup
of the Fab Four will come up for auction in London in October.



Chicago Tribune 8/8/01
Pictures back up Jackson on slaying
http://chicagotribune.com/news/local/chicago/chi-0108080304aug08.story?coll=
chi%2Dnewslocalchicago%2Dhed

by Celeste Garrett
Two obscure photographs taken moments after the assassination of Rev. Martin
Luther King Jr. show Rev. Jesse Jackson was close enough to King to have had
his shirt stained by King's blood, a group of South Side ministers said
Tuesday.


CNET News 8/7/01
New virus travels in PDF files
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/cn/20010807/tc/new_virus_travels_in_pdf_files_1
.html

by Stephen Shankland
Adobe's popular PDF file format--known to anyone who's ever called up a tax
form on the IRS Web site--has generally been considered immune to viruses.
But a new virus carried by programs embedded in PDF files raises concerns
that the format itself could become susceptible.


CNN.com 7/30/01
Computers of the future: Made of glass?
http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/ptech/07/30/glass.computers.idg/index.html

by Martyn Williams
(IDG) -- Engineers in Japan have moved one step closer to their goal of
building a personal digital assistant directly onto a sheet of glass. If
they are successful, your handheld computer could look just like a small
glass panel, possibly as early as 2003.


Christian Science Monitor 8/6/01
In codes of privacy, new cracks
http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2001/08/06/p1s2.htm

by Craig Savoye
St. Louis
Silence used to be the watchword for both lawyers and doctors when confided
in by their clients. Parishioners speaking to their priest, too, were
guaranteed that nothing they said would ever be repeated, even in a court of
law.


Christian Science Monitor 8/6/01
Editorial: Privacy Alert
http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2001/08/06/p8s2.htm

Privacy is a subject that just won't leave the public stage. Today's
technology - to say nothing of tomorrow's - can probe so deeply into
personal data, compiling huge storehouses of information, that a question
always lingers: Who's keeping tabs on whom, and for what purpose?
Much of the data - credit records, for instance - may be used innocently,
even beneficially. But the possibility of misuse warrants vigilance.



Observer-Reporter 8/8/01
FBI and state police disagree on records of handgun sales
http://www.observer-reporter.com/272776877443356.bsp

by Timothy D. May
Associated Press
HARRISBURG - The FBI and Pennsylvania State Police are at odds over whether
a state police database containing records of handgun sales dating to the
1930s violates laws that limit how long such information can be kept.


Federal Computer Week 8/3/01
Payment due despite NMCI delays
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/0730/web-nmci-08-03-01.asp

by Christopher J. Dorobek
The lingering dispute over how the Navy Marine Corps Intranet will be
certified could have severe financial penalties for the Navy - potentially
costing as much as $728 million.


Government Executive 8/8/01
FBI managers suspected of misusing travel vouchers
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0801/080801t1.htm

by Tanya N. Ballard
Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee have called for an investigation
of alleged misconduct at the FBI involving the submission of false vouchers
for travel to a 1997 retirement party.
In a July 10 letter, Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Chuck
Grassley, R-Iowa, asked the General Accounting Office to investigate if
Senior Executive Service members submitted false vouchers to cover travel to
a party for former FBI Assistant Director Larry Potts.



Information Week 8/6/01
You be the judge
http://www.informationweek.com/thisweek/story/IWK20010803S0014

by Sandra Swanson
With David M. Ewalt, Jennifer Maselli, Larry Greenemeier, Jim Nashand Cheryl
Rosen
What What would you do if you found what appeared to be child pornography on
someone's computer at work? That delicate ethical question has taken on
legal ramifications. A new law in South Carolina holds IT professionals
accountable for reporting suspected child porn if they discover it stored on
computers they handle.


Information Week 8/6/01
Instant Messaging: going corporate
http://www.informationweek.com/thisweek/story/IWK20010802S0002

by Tischelle George
Not having a handle on the information that flows into and out of the
company is a frightening situation for any IT manager. But that's the
challenge presented to IT departments when employees download consumer-grade
instant-messaging applications and share corporate information with internal
and external sources.


Information Week 8/7/01
Report questions effectiveness of RC4 encryption algorithm
http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20010807S0002

by Matthew G. Nelson
Anyone who assumes 802.11 wireless local area networking (WLAN) systems are
inherently secure will get a wake-up call next week with the release of a
report that claims there are significant weakness in the RC4 encryption
algorithm used to secure such systems.


Florida Times-Union 8/8/01
News organizations begin examining Harris' office computers
http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/apnews/stories/080801/D7DODC3O0.html

by David Royse
AP
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - An initial review of state government computer files in
Secretary of State Katherine Harris' office shows at least two instances of
campaign-related documents pushing George W. Bush's candidacy for president.



Lincoln Journal Star 8/8/01
Agencies can charge actual cost of copies
http://www.journalstar.com/nebraska?story_id=3994&date=20010808&past=

Associated Press
The government cannot charge more than reasonable costs to copy public
documents, Nebraska Attorney General Don Stenberg told state agencies in a
legal opinion released Tuesday.


The Record 8/8/01
Judge wants explanation of computer bug system
http://www.bergen.com/news/book08200108085.htm

Associated Press
NEWARK -- A federal judge Tuesday ordered the Justice Department to reveal
details about how it bugged the computer of an accused bookie, rejecting the
government's arguments that to do so would jeopardize national security.
U.S. District Court Judge Nicholas H. Politan ordered the government to make
public details about how the "key logger system" works.


KOIN.com 8/8/01
18.5 minute Watergate tape gap checked
http://www.koin.com/sh/news/stories/nat-news-90962520010808-140857.html

Associated Press
WASHINGTON, 4:24 p.m. EDT August 8, 2001 -- Audio experts may have a chance
to amplify the most infamous 18 minutes of the Nixon presidency.


Miami Herald 8/8/01
Harris' computer files may be lost
http://www.miami.com/herald/content/news/local/florida/digdocs/105939.htm

by Lesley Clark and Martin Merzer
Files on computers used by employees of Florida Secretary of State Katherine
Harris during last fall's disputed presidential election might be lost
forever, destroyed earlier this year when new programs were installed on the
computers, experts said Tuesday.


Union News 8/8/01
FBI agents seize records of Old Hill organization
http://www.masslive.com/newsindex/springfield/index.ssf?/news/pstories/se808
fbm.html

by Jack Flynn
SPRINGFIELD - Federal agents probing government corruption in Springfield
seized records yesterday from the Old Hill Neighborhood Council, a nonprofit
group that holds contracts with the city.
FBI agents spent several hours at the council's 99 Eastern Ave. office,
poring over financial documents and other records, according to three
sources familiar with the investigation.


New York Post 8/8/01
Memo: Hill pushed for Coke pardon
http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/36997.htm

by Brian Blomquist and Deborah Orin
Hillary Rodham Clinton wanted a convicted cocaine dealer sprung from prison,
and it was "very important" to her, the former first lady's brother told the
White House, according to a bombshell memo obtained by The Post.


New York Times 8/8/01
Data permanently erased from Florida computers
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/08/politics/08FLOR.html?searchpv=nytToday

by David Barstow
An independent examination of four computers used by Katherine Harris, the
Florida secretary of state, and her aides during last fall's presidential
recount has found evidence that the machines were used more extensively than
either Ms. Harris or her spokesman had acknowledged.


New York Times 8/8/01
Rebels in black robes recoil at surveillance of computers
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/08/technology/08COUR.html

by Neil A. Lewis
Washington, Aug 7 -- A group of federal employees who believed that the
monitoring of their office computers was a major violation of their privacy
recently staged an insurrection, disabling the software used to check on
them and suggesting that the monitoring was illegal and unethical.


The Roanoke Times 8/8/01
Roanoke doctor seeks return of seized files
http://www.roanoke.com/roatimes/news/story116075.html

by Jen McCaffery
Attorneys for a Roanoke doctor under investigation for making false medical
claims to insurance programs and prescribing drugs such as OxyContin to
addicts and dealers fought in federal court Tuesday for the return of his
patients' medical records.


St. Louis Post-Dispatch 8/8/01
Mosler Inc. files for bankruptcy
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/business/stories.nsf/Business/A92BA42E357B3
2B286256AA200768240?OpenDocument&Headline=Mosler%20Inc.%20files%20for%20bank
ruptcy

Farmington, Mo., has lost another manufacturer with the bankruptcy of Mosler
Inc., which made bank safes and other security products.
The Hamilton, Ohio, company fired nearly all of its 1,800 workers on Friday
and filed for bankruptcy Tuesday. The Farmington plant closed last week,
Farmington Mayor Kevin Engler said.


Tallahassee Democrat 8/8/01
Political speech found on computer
http://web.tallahasseedemocrat.com/content/tallahassee/2001/08/08/local/0808
.loc.harris.htm

by Nancy Cook Lauer
Democrat Capitol Bureau Chief
Secretary of State Katherine Harris has consistently maintained she kept a
"firewall" between her political work for George W. Bush and her role as
Florida's chief election official.


The News-Press 8/8/01
Harris releases computer records, defends role
http://www.news-press.com/news/today/010808harris.html

by Paige St. John
Tallahassee - Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris again is fending
off questions about her impartiality in the 2000 presidential election with
Tuesday's release of records showing Republican Party material on her state
computers.


Dallas Morning News 8/8/01
Sharp got confidential tax statistics
http://www.dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/438458_sharp_08tex.AR.html

by Wayne Slater
AUSTIN - Shortly before leaving office almost three years ago, former
Comptroller John Sharp received from his staff a confidential list of the
state's top 500 business taxpayers and the taxes they pay.


US News 8/13/01
Lawsuits spur rise in employee monitoring
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/010813/work/workplace.htm

by Dana Hawkins
In case you haven't heard, your company is probably peeking at your E-mail,
computer files, and Internet surfing log. But why? Are employers concerned
about productivity, worried about workers spilling company secrets, or are
they just plain nosy? The answer may be all of the above. But the No. 1
reason for monitoring these days is to avoid the hot lights and high costs
of courtroom drama. Companies say they need protection against lawsuits, and
surveillance software and other tools that allow them to snoop are becoming
less expensive and easier to use.


Korea Herald 8/8/01
Experts oppose Seoul-Paris document swap
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2001/08/08/200108080044.asp

By Hwang Jang-jin
Historians and international law experts yesterday reiterated their
opposition to Seoul's recent agreement to provide its cultural properties to
Paris in exchange for ancient Korean documents looted by the French in the
19th century.


Wall Street Journal 8/8/01
Securities firm Edward D. Jones enjoys its success as a 'not-com'
http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB997216294635148791.htm

by Susanne Craig
DES PERES, Mo. -- For Edward D. Jones & Co., it's as if the Internet
revolution never happened.
The securities firm, based in this St. Louis suburb, vows it will never
offer online trading. During the tech craze it refused to push technology
stocks. Managing partner John Bachmann concedes he hasn't turned on his
personal computer in at least four years. The 62-year-old shuns cellphones
and carries a rectangular L.L. Bean clock in his pocket. He scrawls out
responses to e-mail with a pen, leaving it to an assistant to type and send
them.


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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