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RAIN 9/26: Disaster recovery, $1MM fine, sins of omission



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BBC News 9/25/01
Shackleton papers 'saved for the nation'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1563000/1563181.stm

Important documents that trace extraordinary moments in the life of one of
the world's greatest explorers went under an auctioneer's hammer on Tuesday
- and, not surprisingly, fetched top prices.
The papers covered the epic adventures of Antarctic legend Sir Earnest
Shackleton. They were deemed so important that the UK's National Heritage
Memorial fund released substantial sums to ensure the documents did not go
to foreign bidders.


Business Week 9/24/01
Is your data safe from disaster?
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/sep2001/nf20010924_6823.htm

by Faith Keenan
Iron Mountain is a company that likes to keep a low profile. So it takes
sharp eyes to locate one if its key buildings in Burlington, Mass. No name
marks the one-story structure. No corporate slogan trumpets its mission.
Only a tiny street number -- 21 -- lets visitors know they've arrived. The
proliferation of surveillance cameras makes it clear they shouldn't try
anything funny.


Business Week 9/25/01
Hackers face life imprisonment under anti-terrorism act
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/sep2001/tc20010925_5807.htm

by Kevin Poulsen
Hackers, virus-writers and web site defacers would face life imprisonment
without the possibility of parole under legislation proposed by the Bush
Administration that would classify most computer crimes as acts of
terrorism.
The Justice Department is urging Congress to quickly approve its
Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA), a twenty-five page proposal that would expand the
government's legal powers to conduct electronic surveillance, access
business records, and detain suspected terrorists.



Charlotte Observer 9/25/01
Man says paperwork glitch kept him in jail far too long
http://www.charlotte.com/observer/local/pub/inmates0925.htm

by Eric Frazier
As Mecklenburg officials scramble to stop paperwork delays that forced them
to turn lawbreakers away at the jailhouse door, one former inmate says he
had just the opposite problem.
Freddie Emory was in custody and couldn't get out. Paperwork troubles kept
the sheriff's office from immediately obtaining the court document showing
his correct sentence.



Kansas City Star 9/25/01
Businesses urged to be ready in case of disaster
http://www.kcstar.com/item/pages/business.pat,business/3acd00b9.924,.html

by David Hayes
When terrorists struck at America two weeks ago, their highest profile
target wasn't military or government.
Although an airliner crashed into the Pentagon, the main targets of the
Sept. 11 attacks were the twin towers of the World Trade Center, the once
dominant symbol of American business.



Las Vegas Review Journal 9/25/01
Erasure process lengthy
http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/2001/Sep-25-Tue-2001/news/17072579.html

by Frank Geary
Casino workers who were released earlier this year from mob-era work card
regulations will have to wait an undetermined number of weeks before their
computerized police records are erased, Metropolitan Police Department
officials said Monday.
The Police Department will immediately destroy a computerized index for work
card records that have expired since the department began compiling them in
1965.


Wired 9/25/01
Medical Records Made Easy
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,47083,00.html

by Mark K. Anderson
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts -- The future of health technology can be a
daunting topic, suggesting hopes and dreams that might not be realized for
years, if not generations.
Conference-goers at the Future of Health Technology Summit 2001, held at the
MIT Media Lab, will consider such far-flung solutions on Tuesday. But on
Monday they concentrated on how to proceed with available technologies.




Union-News 9/25/01
Selectmen correct minutes
http://www.masslive.com/newsindex/metroeast/index.ssf?/news/pstories/me925br
i.html

by Kim Ring
BRIMFIELD - Selectmen again spent time correcting minutes of previous
meetings, and one board member said he's still not happy with the way
records of the board's meetings are being submitted.
This week, though, the selectmen's clerk said she doesn't want to be
publicly chastised for her mistakes and suggested the selectmen take their
complaints about her work behind closed doors.



New York Times 9/24/01
A false challenge to news photos takes root on the Web
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/24/business/media/24TAPE.html

by Felicity Barringer
The day after the World Trade Center attacks, Márcio A. V. Carvalho, a
Brazilian graduate student at the University of Campinas, sent an e-mail
message to a list of fellow sociologists. In it, he claimed that after the
attack, CNN had recycled 1991 images, misidentifying the footage as a
picture of a few Palestinians celebrating the terrorist attack in New York.



New York Times 9/25/01
Disputes on electronic message encryption take on new urgency
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/25/technology/25CODE.html

by John Schwartz
The attacks on the World Trade Center have reawakened a debate on how
strongly the public - and by extension terrorists and other criminals -
should be able to encrypt their electronic messages.
The technology of scrambling data and messages has become a crucial element
of computer security for businesses and consumers alike. Officials of law
enforcement and intelligence agencies have long warned lawmakers that they
were unable to break the strongest encryption products, and that crimes
eventually would be committed that might otherwise have been prevented.




New York Times 9/20/01
Fact-driven? Collegial? This site wants you.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/20/technology/circuits/20ENCY.html

by Peter Meyers
For all the human traffic that the Web attracts, most sites remain fairly
solitary destinations. People shop by themselves, retrieve information alone
and post messages that they hope others will eventually notice. But some
sites are looking for ways to enable visitors not only to interact but even
to collaborate to change the sites themselves.




New York Times 9/24/01
Giving away computers, dispensing peace of mind
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/24/technology/24BLUE.html

by Steve Lohr
When disaster strikes, Brent Woodworth is usually not far behind. Floods,
earthquakes and bombings are his business. His résumé includes laboring at
the scene of 70 catastrophes, natural and man-made - earthquakes in Turkey,
flooding in Peru, the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing - as the head of the I.B.M.
(news/quote) crisis response team.



New York Times 9/25/01
Morgan Chase fined by S.E.C.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/25/business/25CHAS.html?ex=1002081600&en=5fa1
5bd56ff7e343&ei=5040&partner=MOREOVER

by Bloomberg News
WASHINGTON, Sept. 24 (Bloomberg) - J. P. Morgan Chase & Company agreed to
pay a $1 million fine to settle regulators' allegations that Chase Manhattan
Bank violated record-keeping and reporting rules while acting as a transfer
agent for bond issues.
The Securities and Exchange Commission alleged that Chase, before it
acquired J. P. Morgan, failed to reconcile more than $46.8 billion in
inaccuracies in its computerized bond records between March 1998 and June
2000.



New York Times 9/24/01
Travelers try videoconferencing
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/24/technology/24MEET.html

by Amy Harmon
Mike Kolleth, a Dow Chemical (news/quote) executive in Zurich, should have
been at a Web site design session in Midland, Mich. The sales
representatives at Thomson Financial in Boston were supposed to be showing
new products to customers in Chicago and San Francisco. Vince Engel,
president of a San Francisco ad agency, was scheduled to fly to San Diego
for a presentation to Adidas, his most important client.



New York Times 9/17/01
Trying to plan for the unthinkable
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/17/technology/17DISA.html

by Barnaby J. Feder
Business disaster recovery experts have been confronted by a stunning new
form of devastation that few had imagined before Tuesday's terrorist attacks
on New York and Washington.
Most disruptions stem from computer programming mistakes, backhoes chopping
up communications lines and other human accidents. Recovery specialists also
plan, of course, for more destructive events, but their concern in such
cases has primarily been natural disasters like Hurricane Andrew or the 1999
earthquake that knocked out semiconductor factories in Taiwan.




New York Times 9/25/01
When science inadvertently aids an enemy
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/25/science/physical/25TECH.html

by Gina Kolata
In 1975, a 30-year-old electrical engineering researcher at Stanford had an
idea for a new kind of cryptography. He thought his method could give the
public truly unbreakable codes for their communications and other data,
codes even more powerful than those produced by the National Security
Agency, the nation's premier code-making and code- breaking agency.




Orange County Register 9/25/01
Technology grant draws federal probe
http://www.ocregister.com/news/0925kickbackscci.shtml

by Chuck Finnie and Julian Guthrie
SAN FRANCISCO A federal grand jury is investigating possible fraud and
kickbacks involving a $48 million federal technology grant awarded to San
Francisco public schools.
The investigation, led by the U.S. Attorney's Office and the FBI, is one of
several inquiries being conducted by law-enforcement agencies and auditors -
and the second to involve Timothy Tronson, the district's former facilities
division director.




Tallahassee Democrat 9/25/01
New law, meant to help, will hurt
http://web.tallahasseedemocrat.com/content/tallahassee/2001/09/25/local/0925
.loc.easytalk.htm

by Nancy Cook Lauer
For 10 years, Robert Miller and his wife, Sila - both blind themselves -
have made customized computers and software for the visually impaired from
their tidy but aging mobile home tucked behind an industrial park on
Tallahassee's south side.
But a law that goes into effect Oct. 1 could sound the death knell for their
company, Easy Talk, and as many as 147 similar small businesses around the
state.



Washington Post 9/25/01
Sins of omission
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19390-2001Sep24.html

by Sandra G. Boodman
Peruse the Commonwealth of Virginia's online profile of Ravi K. Veluri, a
49-year-old physician who practices in Alexandria and Dale City, and it
appears he has an untarnished record: no disciplinary actions by any
hospital, federal agency or state medical board.
There's no mention on the state-sponsored Web site of the general
practitioner's 1992 misdemeanor conviction in U.S. District Court in
Alexandria for unlawful sexual contact with a patient, a crime for which he
was sentenced to 30 days' incarceration and three years' probation.



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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