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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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