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RAIN 11/7: Drive-by Hacking, Website censorship, Bioterrorism



There are 22 stories in this posting

Christian Science Monitor 11/06/01
A fight brews over ex-presidents' papers
http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/1106/p2s2-usju.html

by Francine Kieffer
WASHINGTON - If a new executive order signed by President Bush had been in place years ago, Americans might never have had an opportunity to hear President Johnson's private phone conversations with his aides - as they did recently on C-Span radio broadcasts.
They might never have known the true story of the Cuban missile crisis, the Iran-contra scandal, or even Watergate.



Wired 11/06/01
Afghan archivist of culture
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,47842,00.html

by Robin Clewley
A brightly colored fresco lines the halls of an old temple, depicting images of a thriving culture. A museum with an impressive modern art collection attracts tourists from all over the world.
This was Afghanistan 25 years ago.


Associated Press 11/06/01
Audit finds imprecise nuclear records
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/ap/20011106/pl/nuclear_materials_1.html

by John Heilprin
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Energy Department and Nuclear Regulatory Commission are not keeping an accurate inventory of nuclear materials loaned out for domestic research, investigators say.
An audit by the Energy Department's inspector general between April and August found that 119 locations handling government-owned enriched uranium, plutonium and other nuclear materials had returned more to the department than had been loaned out or leased.



BBC News 11/06/01
Welcome to the era of drive-by hacking
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1639000/1639661.stm

by Mark Ward
BBC News Online has been shown just how lax security is on wireless networks used in London's financial centre.
On one short trip, two-thirds of the networks we discovered using a laptop and free software tools were found to be wide open.
Any maliciously minded hacker could easily join these networks and piggy back on their fast net links, steal documents or subvert other machines on the systems to do their bidding.



Billings Gazette 11/06/01
Confidential files appear on UM site; Officials believe incident not malicious
http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?section=local&display=content/local/20umfiles.inc

by Betsy Cohen
The Missoulian
University of Montana technology specialists scrambled Monday to remove from the UM Web site confidential files of people involved in a clinical study.



Charleston Daily Mail 11/06/01
School officials say paperwork necessary
http://www.dailymail.com/news/News/2001110642/

by Carrie Smith
Kanawha County school officials say they are simply following state guidelines when they require teachers to keep paperwork on everything from instructional strategies to discipline procedures.
But the leader of one of the county's teacher unions disagrees.



The Courier-Journal 10/30/01
Counties 'subverted' records law, ruling says
http://www.courierjournal.com/localnews/2001/10/30/ke103001s95626.htm

by Charles Wolfe
AP
FRANKFORT, Ky. -- Officials in four counties ''subverted the intent'' of the state Open Records Act by charging excessive fees for documents requested by an animal-welfare activist, the attorney general's office has ruled.


Washington Business Journal 11/06/01
E-realtors trying to take paper out of paperwork
http://washington.bcentral.com/washington/stories/2001/11/05/focus2.html

by Timothy Mazzucca
Working underneath stacks of official documents has been the fate of anyone involved in real estate transactions. It would seem that putting all of those documents online is an obvious solution to the paper problem.



Star-Tribune 11/06/01
Government says safety concerns justify web site censorship
http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/808107.html

by Tom Diemer
Newhouse News Service
WASHINGTON -- During World War II, Americans were warned that ``loose lips sink ships.'' In the nation's new war, government is shushing its own agencies for fear they could unwittingly spread information useful to the enemy.
Since Sept. 11, a number of federal government Web sites - no one knows how many - have removed information deemed too sensitive for public consumption.



Times Daily 11/06/01
Guidelines for getting documents on the table
http://www.timesdaily.com/news/stories/10596newsstories.html

by Russ Corey
FLORENCE - City Council members will discuss a proposed ordinance at today's work session that would establish guidelines for public document requests.
The proposed ordinance would require a written request from anyone seeking public records.



St. Petersburg Times 11/06/01
Board to look at chief's exit date
http://www.sptimes.com/News/110601/Hernando/Board_to_look_at_chie.shtml

by Jennifer Farrell
SPRING HILL -- Bob Kanner wants retiring Chief Mike Morgan out of the Spring Hill Fire Rescue District as soon as possible.
As chairman of the five-member district commission, Kanner called for a special meeting Wednesday night to see that Morgan's exit comes this week rather than next.


Columbia Daily Tribune 11/06/01
Inaccurate records behind St. Louis vote charges
http://www.showmenews.com/News/20011105News011.asp

Associated Press
ST. LOUIS (AP) - The city has wrongly classified hundreds of voters' addresses as vacant lots, and dozens of those residents are being wrongly accused of voting improperly last fall, a newspaper survey has found.


Evansville Courier & Press 11/06/01
Editorial: Keeping Secrets
http://www.myinky.com/ecp/opinion/article/1,1626,ECP_794_869073,00.html

It may be an unworthy thought, but it seems that the Bush White House has taken advantage of the nation's preoccupation with other matters to slip a patently self-serving executive order past Congress and the public.



ZDNET News 11/06/01
E-mail delivers while snail mail sits
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2822494,00.html

by Jeff Papows
COMMENTARY--Recent events indicate that American businesses need to take immediate action in modifying their method of communicating with customers and suppliers--or suffer the dire consequences of their snail mail not being read or even opened.


Newsday 11/06/01
Coloradans comply with meeting law
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-colorado-foi-project1106nov06.story?coll=sns%2Dap%2Dnationworld%2Dheadlines

by Jennifer Hamilton
AP
DENVER -- Colorado's local governments apparently are complying with a new law requiring them to make a record of closed-door meetings, a survey has found.


New York Post 11/06/01
Fame doesn't always come cheap
http://www.nypost.com/gossip/liz.htm

by Liz Smith
A STORY in the British press says papers of Sir Winston Churchill, are being kept secret at the request of the royal family. These include missives in which Churchill attacks the then-King Edward VIII, who later became the Duke of Windsor, for his intended abdication from the throne and subsequent marriage in 1936 to American divorcée Wallis Simpson.


New York Times 11/06/01
In a simple memo, F.Y.I., a tense tale of survival
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/06/nyregion/06TUNN.html

by Randy Kennedy
New York City Transit puts a lot of faith in paperwork. At times, it seems to have missed the whole computer revolution, or at least mistrusted it. In fact, in a dusty file room in downtown Brooklyn, there are boxes containing minute-by-minute records of the daily movements of your subway line, going several back years - all handwritten, on paper.


New York Times 11/06/01
When bioterror first struck the U.S. Capital
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/06/health/06YELL.html

by Gina Kolata
Philadelphia, Nov. 1 -- The nation's capital was struck by a plague so terrible that 10 percent of the population died in a matter of months. People panicked. Everyone who could fled the city. Politicians seized the moment to try to gain advantages over their opponents.


Indianapolis Star 11/06/01
Star loses suit over Knight records
http://www.indystar.com/print/articles/iusuit06.html

by Vic Ryckaert
A judge sided with Indiana University on Monday, throwing out a lawsuit The Indianapolis Star had filed to force the release of information concerning the firing of basketball coach Bob Knight.
In a five-page ruling, Special Judge Jane Spencer Craney said materials supporting Knight's dismissal do not have to be released under state open records laws.


People's Daily 11/01/01
Tax fraud taken seriously in China
http://www.accountingeducation.com/news/news2226.html

October 30 saw the intermediate people's courts of Shantou City and Jieyang City of Guangdong Province pass sentences respectively on 16 cases of writing false value added tax (VAT) invoices, in which 20 defendants and 7 units were involved. By now, of known criminals brought to justice in the two cases of Chaoyang and Puning 30 have been given life sentence with 19 of them receiving capital punishment.


Washington Post 11/06/01
A catch worthy of Jackie Robinson
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45146-2001Nov5.html

by Linton Weeks
Rachel Robinson, widow of baseball legend Jackie Robinson, is donating her husband's papers to the Library of Congress today.
Though the gift does not include any autographed balls or splintered bats, the collection of 7,000 items -- letters, speeches, documents, financial records and other papers -- portrays Robinson as a world-class athlete who understood his power on and off the diamond.


Washington Post 11/06/01
Report finds 'weakness' in nuclear controls
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44533-2001Nov5.html

by Walter Pincus
Government records about plutonium and uranium loaned to U.S. academic institutions, private companies, hospitals and other government agencies cannot account for "substantial" amounts of the material, according to a report released yesterday by the Energy Department inspector general.


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