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RAIN 8/12: Weekend Update Part 3



There are 19 stories in this posting.

ABC News.com 8/10/01
Re-look at the Red Scare
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/archivescongress_010810.html

by David Ruppe
The National Archives is opening to the public vast records from the House 
Committee on Un-American Activities, which for 30 years investigated U.S. 
citizens for alleged subversive activities.
HUAC, created in 1945 to investigate "un-American" propaganda activities, 
became infamous for its aggressive pursuit of Americans suspected of being 
communists, spies, homosexuals, and other supposed security risks. 


ABS-CBNnews.com 8/10/01
DOJ: US gov't not probing Ping…yet
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/abs/inews-aug2001.nsf/national/20010810033

The United States government has refused to pry open Sen. Panfilo Lacson's 
bank accounts unless the Department of Justice (DOJ) provides preliminary 
evidence that will justify the examination of the deposits, it was learned 
Thursday.
Perez told reporters that the US government has written him asking for 
"further details" that will prompt them to look into Lacson's accounts in 
Citibank N.A. and Bank of America.



CIVIC.com 8/9/01
City eases Web maintenance
http://www.civic.com/civic/articles/2001/0806/web-story-08-09-01.asp

by Brian Robinson
The California city of San Carlos is one of the first jurisdictions to use 
software originally developed for newspapers and other publishing enterprises 
to boost the manageability of Web site content. 
The content management software, Vignette Corp.'s StoryServer, enables users 
to make global changes to multiple Web pages with just one edit and enter new 
information without knowing HTML. It also uses run dates so that pages can be 
automatically removed from a site on a given date. 



Detroit Free Press 7/31/01
Cops tap database to harass, intimidate
http://www.freep.com/news/mich/lein31_20010731.htm

by M.L. Elrick
Police throughout Michigan, entrusted with the personal and confidential 
information in a state law enforcement database, have used it to stalk women, 
threaten motorists and settle scores.
Over the past five years, more than 90 Michigan police officers, dispatchers, 
federal agents and security guards have abused the Law Enforcement 
Information Network (LEIN), according to a Free Press examination of hundreds 
of pages of LEIN records and police reports. 


Detroit Free Press 7/31/01
Network abuse toppled woman's trust of police
http://www.freep.com/news/mich/amber31_20010731.htm

by M.L. Elrick
Amber Thomas always believed police were sworn to serve and protect.
Then she met Louis Tejada. 
Tejada, a police officer in Albion, a town of 10,600 near Jackson, met Thomas 
in March 1999 when he came to her boyfriend's house to take a harassment 
complaint against her boyfriend's ex-girlfriend. 



Detroit Free Press 8/01/01
Penalties uneven for data misuse
http://www.freep.com/news/mich/lein1_20010801.htm

by M.L. Elrick
Michigan's system for disciplining officers who abuse the confidential Law 
Enforcement Information Network is flawed, meting out unequal justice for 
violators and victims alike.
Overseeing the system is a committee virtually powerless to punish those who 
have used the system's database of addresses, criminal records, license plate 
numbers and driving records to seek romance, revenge or an upper hand in 
personal, legal or political conflicts. Instead, it must rely on individual 
departments to deal with their own -- and the punishments they hand down vary 
widely. 



Entertainment Tonight 8/301
Monica's private e-mails
http://www.etonline.com/celebrity/a5292.htm

MONICA LEWINSKY's private e-mails: she wrote them four years ago, oblivious 
to the fact that the world would be reading them. Now they're available 
online for all to see, warts and all!
As we all know, Monica learned the hard way how so-called "private" e-mails 
can be used against her after LINDA TRIPP betrayed her confidence by exposing 
her correspondence to KENNETH STARR -- and the nation. "I think most people 
tend to have a faith -- and it's a false notion, really -- that, 'Oh, that 
wouldn't happen to me. Why would someone be looking at what I'm doing?'" says 
the former Washington intern. "But in actuality, people are."



Federal Computer Week 8/9/01
FBI's key logger under scrutiny
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/0806/web-fbi-08-09-01.asp

by William Matthews
Law enforcement's penchant for high-tech surveillance has again collided with 
the public's right to privacy. This time the question is whether FBI agents 
can plant a secret monitoring device that records everything typed on a 
computer user's keyboard. 



Federal Computer Week 8/701
NMCI foundation spreading
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/0806/web-netops-08-07-01.asp

by Christopher J. Dorobek
Electronic Data Systems Corp. opened the second of six network operations 
centers Aug. 6 that lay the groundwork for the Navy Marine Corps Intranet. 
The center, located at North Island Naval Air Station on Coronado Island in 
San Diego County, Calif., will be one of the main hubs for NMCI. It will 
provide mission-critical services for the Navy's West Coast operations, such 
as network management and monitoring, help-desk support, user administration 
and information assurance. 



New York Times 8/10/01
Internet cash company suspends its operations
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/10/technology/ebusiness/10FLOO.html?searchpv=ny

tToday

by Jason Blair
Flooz.com an Internet company that offered online currency that could be used 
at dozens of World Wide Web sites, has shut its Web site and is considering 
ceasing operations, executives close to the company said yesterday.
The company, based in Silicon Alley in Manhattan, has stopped accepting its 
online currency for payment, leaving many customers wondering whether they 
are holding worthless virtual paper.



New York Times 8/10/01
On a mission to unmask pretenders to military glory
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/10/national/10FAKE.html

by Pam Belluck
Last April, in a dignified ceremony meant to honor a war hero, Senator Ben 
Nelson of Nebraska pinned a Purple Heart on Timothy R. Webster, who stood 
humbly wearing a large eagle insignia, the kind worn only by members of the 
Navy's elite Sea-Air-Land units, the Seals.
Mr. Webster, 26, of Columbus, Neb., had told Senator Nelson's office that he 
had been wounded in the Persian Gulf in 1994, and he had presented a letter 
on Navy stationery saying he won a Purple Heart.



New York Times 8/1/01
Privacy watchdogs mull Engage's future
http://www.nytimes.com/cnet/CNET_0-1005-200-6831796.html?searchpv=cnet

by Stefanie Olsen
CNET News.com
Privacy advocates are bracing for a signal that beleaguered online ad network 
Engage plans to dump its media business, promising to protest any potential 
sale that would transfer ownership of the company's extensive database of 
anonymous consumer profiles. 



New York Times 8/10/01
The art world starts to pay attention to video games
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/09/technology/circuits/09ARTT.html

by Mark Glaser
THERE she was again. Lara Croft, the virtual character who has conquered the 
video game world, has appeared on magazine covers and has even been portrayed 
on film by Angelina Jolie, was up there on a big screen at the San Francisco 
Museum of Modern Art. But this film loop showed her dying as she was pierced 
by arrows - and then dying, and dying again, endlessly. 



ST. Petersburg Times 8/10/01
Secretary Harris registered to vote in two counties
http://www.sptimes.com/News/081001/State/Secretary_Harris_regi.shtml

AP
TALLAHASSEE -- Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris was registered to 
vote in two counties for nearly seven months before aides caught the error, a 
review of her computer files showed. 
The state's top elections official properly filled out a new Leon County 
voter registration form on Sept. 2, 1999, after winning office and moving to 
the capital. 



USA Today 8/10/01
States do their part to squash identity theft
http://www.usatoday.com/money/general/2001-08-10-identity.htm

by Sandra Block
The battle against identity theft is increasingly being fought at the state 
level.
Forty-six states now have identity theft laws, up from just three in 1996, 
according to the Federal Trade Commission. And many state lawmakers are 
considering toughening laws already on the books.



Web Techniques 9/2001
Legacy-to-Web sans data migration
http://webtechniques.com/archives/2001/09/stratrevu/

by Bill Pitzer
If you work for a company that has relied heavily on its legacy information 
systems for countless years, you've probably expended an incalculable amount 
of resources tweaking or enhancing systems to meet your specific and shifting 
business needs. When talking to companies that specialize in legacy-to-Web 
integration, you might find that they're perhaps a little too eager to move 
your data to a more Web-friendly place. 



Washington Post 8/10/01
State Dept. gains access to Kissinger transcripts
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57156-2001Aug10.html

by George Lardner Jr
The State Department has finally obtained unfettered access to the 
transcripts of former secretary of state Henry Kissinger's telephone 
conversations with presidents, heads of state, bureaucrats and reporters. 
They could be made public within a few months.
The 10,000 pages of records have been tightly guarded at the Library of 
Congress since 1976 under a controversial deed in which Kissinger said the 
papers could not be made public until five years after his death. 


Washington Post 8/10/01
Nixon and the Nixon Tapes
http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/zforum/01/freemedia_weissenbach080901

.htm

Thursday is the anniversary of President Richard Nixon's resignation, the 
first and only president to step down from America's highest office. 
Karl Weissenbach, director of the Nixon Presidential Materials Project at the 
National Archives at College Park, will be online to take questions and 
comments regarding Nixon, his presidency and the Nixon tapes. 



Wall Street Journal 8/10/01
North Carolina paper draws readers with full news of local goings-on
http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB997388932929477455.htm

by Patricia Callahan
DUNN, N.C. -- To the customers along his route, Calvin Connelly Jr. is an 
old-fashioned sight: a boy on a bicycle delivering newspapers. Block after 
block, he throws the Daily Record to nearly every home.
Their devotion to the local paper makes the people of Dunn something of a 
throwback. In 1950, the American newspaper industry sold 12 copies for every 
10 homes, for a market penetration of 124%. Now that's down to 53%, and still 
dropping. Some of the best minds in American journalism say that busier 
lifestyles and a cultural shift from print toward electronic media mean the 
erosion is probably inevitable.


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

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