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RAIN 8/27: Weekend Update Part 2



There are 15 stories in this posting.

Associated Press 8/24/01
Rock Springs police step up archiving effort
http://www.trib.com/HOMENEWS/WYO/PoliceRecords.html

ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. (AP) - The city police department has given its archiving
process a boost with a $46,000 machine that quickly transfers paper
documents to microfilm and compact discs.
Most of the department's records are locked in a basement. They go back as
far as 75 years.


Santa Fe New Mexican 8/17/01
Vintage-photo print fakes exposed
http://www.sfnewmexican.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=2234548&BRD=2144&PAG=461&de
pt_id=367954&rfi=8

by Anne Constable
A Santa Fe gallery owner and a former Los Alamos scientist have found that
prints attributed to famed American photographer Lewis Hine could not have
been made by him.
Their discoveries led to a $1 million out-of-court settlement with six
leading photography dealers earlier this year and triggered an FBI
investigation into possible criminal misconduct.


San Francisco Chronicle 8/24/01
Remains of the data
Some firms that close auction off computers, neglect to delete confidential
information
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/08/23/BU212518.DTL

by Carrie Kirby
Jamie Flournoy got more than he bargained for when he bought four laptops in
an auction a few months ago -- left on the computers' hard drives were reams
of private information, including e-mails, a business plan and employee
performance reviews.
Making matters even more awkward, Flournoy knew the people mentioned in the
reviews -- they were his former colleagues. The unemployed tech worker had
bought the computers at an online liquidation auction for his former
employer, Viant, the consulting firm based in Boston that closed its San
Francisco office in March. Flournoy left Viant in November.



The Age 8/25/01
Unisys to pay $4m
http://www.theage.com.au/business/2001/08/25/FFX0SSWUQQC.html

by Richard Salmons
RACV is set to extract up to $4 million and substantial costs after a court
found that a Unisys computer system had not worked.
The Supreme Court of Victoria yesterday ruled in favor of RACV's claim
against Unisys for misleading and deceptive conduct under the Trade
Practices Act, after a court case that the judge described as "an unedifying
and possibly pointless fight over past events" to see who was at fault.



The Atlanta Journal-Constitution 8/24/01
Hartsfield computer upgrade stalled
http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/metro/0824airport.html

by Stacy Shelton and Richard Whitt
Two years after Atlanta paid nearly $1 million for a financial system at
Hartsfield International Airport, the software still hasn't been installed.
In the meantime, airport authorities have started a 10-year, $5.4 billion
expansion with no centralized computer system.
"This is a glaring delay," said Atlanta City Councilwoman Cathy Woolard,
Transportation Committee chairwoman.



Daily Courier 8/23/01
Teslovich's attorney files discovery motion
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/dailycourier/dailycourier_story.html?rkey=1630
55+sid=e511e9f3998f1a80775a18bb7cb98f1c+cat=dailycourier-news+template=news1
.html]

by Gretchen M. Kline
UNIONTOWN - The attorney representing a former Fayette County commissioner
alleged to have acted as a madam is asking the court to provide him with
documents that started the investigation of his client.



Washington Post 8/24/01
FBI'S 'Carnivore' might target wireless text
http://www.washtech.com/news/regulation/12051-1.html

by Robert O'Harrow, Jr.,
Federal law enforcement authorities may soon expand the use of a
controversial FBI monitoring system to capture e-mail and other text
messages sent through wireless telephone carriers, as well as messages from
their Internet service providers, according to a telecommunications industry
group.
The FBI has been using the system, called Carnivore, for two years, subject
to court authorization, to tap into Internet communications, identify e-mail
writers online or record the contents of messages. It does so by capturing
"packets" of information containing those details.



Washington Post 8/24/01
Going, Going, and Gone for Good
http://www.washtech.com/news/media/12057-1.html

by Ellen McCarthy
More remnants of the region's dot-com heyday were purged yesterday as assets
of LifeMinders Inc. and Pathnet Telecommunications Inc. were sold to the
highest bidder.
R.L. Rasmus Auctioneers Inc. of Alexandria sold everything from desks and
chairs to sophisticated computer equipment at a live auction that took place
at the Herndon and Reston offices of the two companies.



Wall Street Journal 8/24/01
Emery suffered from safety issues long before it faced FAA grounding
http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB998598317452413032.htm

by Andy Pasztor and Rick Brooks
When the federal government 13 days ago forced Emery Worldwide Airlines Inc.
to suspend all its flights, Federal Aviation Administration officials
portrayed themselves as tough safety cops cracking down on a renegade cargo
carrier.
But FAA inspection reports, data assembled by crash investigators and
interviews with Emery flight crews suggest a different story: The FAA waited
for years to take decisive enforcement action in spite of serious and
chronic safety lapses at the freight hauler.


Denver Post 8/25/01
Old licenses, ID cards stolen
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1002,53%257E118452,00.html

AP
COLORADO SPRINGS - State officials are apologizing for a delay in notifying
hundreds of people that their old driver's licenses and identification cards
were stolen from a driver's license office in July, exposing them to the
threat of identity theft.
About 685 driver's licenses and identification cards have been recovered,
but officials are not sure whether more were stolen, said Don Burton,
operations manager for the state's driver license administration.



New York Times 8/25/01
East German files on Berlin leaders cast shadows still
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/25/international/europe/25STAS.html?searchpv=
nytToday

by Edmund L. Andrews
Berlin -- She is a quiet woman with an easy smile who once ran youth
programs for the Lutheran Church. In her manner and her words, Marianne
Birthler seems far more interested in finding consensus than in picking a
fight with Helmut Kohl, the former chancellor of Germany.
But then, the subject is the Stasi, the much hated secret service that
underpinned East Germany and has been a thread running through Ms.
Birthler's life.



New York Times 8/26/01
Egghead sale could crack on privacy issues
http://www.nytimes.com/cnet/CNET_0-1007-200-6962164.html?searchpv=cnet

by Troy Wolverton
CNET News.com
The proposed sale of Egghead.com (news/quote) to Fry's Electronics could be
in jeopardy if too many customers decide they don't want to be on a Fry's
mailing list, according to bankruptcy filings.
As part of the proposed $10 million sale, Fry's is requiring that no more
than 10 percent of active customers--anyone who bought something at Egghead
in the last two years--can "opt out" of a plan to transfer their information
over to Fry's Electronics, according to a bankruptcy filing at U.S.
Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California.



New York Times 8/25/01
Group deletes some data about voters from Internet
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/25/nyregion/25VOTE.html?searchpv=nytToday

by Amy Harmon
Responding to public complaints, a nonprofit group that posted New York City
voter registration records on a Web site blocked a feature yesterday that
allowed people to retrieve voters' home addresses and party affiliations.
The group sponsoring the site, e- the People, took the action after
receiving dozens of e-mail messages yesterday from people demanding that
their personal information be removed.



New York Times 8/25/01
New York yearns for an institution of historic proportions
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/25/arts/25HIST.html?searchpv=nytToday

by Barbara Stewart
"History tends to be down there at the nerd end of things," said Ric Burns,
the director of a 12-hour documentary on New York City. Compared with, say,
the city's museums and theaters, parks and restaurants, music and dance, New
York's history has been about as popular as the high school chess club.
Lately, however, the city's history has been decidedly sought after. The
first episodes of Mr. Burns's documentary were watched on public television
by 20 million people, and PBS is expecting as big an audience for the last
two, which are to be shown in a few weeks. Huge, scholarly works, like the
Encyclopedia of New York City by Kenneth T. Jackson and "Gotham: A History
of New York City to 1898," by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike G. Wallace, are
selling briskly.



New York Times 8/25/01
U.S. refuses to disclose PC tracking
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/25/technology/25CODE.html?searchpv=nytToday

by John Schwartz
Invoking a national security law normally used in highly publicized
espionage cases, the Justice Department told a federal judge on Thursday
that it would not publicly reveal the details of the "key logger" system
used to gather evidence in the gambling and loansharking trial of Nicodemo
S. Scarfo Jr.

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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