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RAIN 11/15: Internet security, SLAPP, Jasenovac



There are 22 stories in this posting.

The Raleigh News & Observer 11/14/01
Al-Qaida agent worked at Fort Bragg in late 1980s
http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/couriernews/top/e14braggspy.htm

by John Sullivan and Joseph Neff
FORT BRAGG, N.C. - A former sergeant at Fort Bragg who became a close adviser to Osama bin Laden obtained sensitive documents describing how U.S. special operations units function.


BBC News 11/13/01
Student files open to terror inquiries
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/education/newsid_1653000/1653881.stm

by Sean Coughlan
Universities in the United Kingdom would hand over confidential information about students to police inquiring about terrorist suspects.
And universities are already discreetly employing a vetting scheme which gives them guidance from the government about the potential security risks of overseas applicants.



Associated Press 11/14/01
Children raise money for fire truck
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011113/us/attacks_kindness_repaid_1.html

by Page Ivey
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - A group of South Carolina schoolchildren said Tuesday they have raised nearly half a million dollars, exceeding their goal to buy New York City a fire truck and help repay a 134-year debt of kindness.



Foster's Online 11/14/01
Defense lawyer seeks victim's medical files in Dover beating death
http://www.fosters.com/news2001e/november/14/do1114c.htm

by Sean Goodwin
DOVER - A lawyer for a man charged with second-degree murder in the beating death of a local businessman requested Tuesday that the victim's medical records be preserved for the defense.
Attorney Andrew Cotrupi said this morning that arguments over when he can obtain the records in discovery will take place at a later date.



Newsbyte 11/14/01
Govt. Tech security officials visit key Net facility
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172126.html

by David McGuire

A pair of high-ranking Bush administration officials today visited the Herndon, Va., offices of VeriSign to assess the security precautions being taken by the company that controls the technology at the heart of the Internet's global addressing system.


Portland Press Herald 11/14/01
High court won't hear dispute over tribes' rights
http://www.portland.com/news/state/011114indians.shtml

by Bart Jansen
The U.S. Supreme Court refused on Tuesday to referee a dispute between two Maine Indian tribes and paper companies over documents related to water regulation. The Penobscot Nation and the Passamaquoddy Tribe had asked the court to reverse a decision by Maine's highest court. The Maine Supreme Judicial Court upheld a lower-court order for the tribes to turn over documents to Great Northern Paper Inc., Georgia-Pacific Corp. and Champion International Corp. under the state Freedom of Access Act, as a city would be required to do.



Christian Science Monitor 11/14/01
Commentary: History, Declassified
http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/1114/p8s3-comv.html

A recent directive by President Bush severely restricts access to presidential records. It allows a sitting president to declare archives of past presidents "privileged," and thus inaccessible to the public, even if the former president disagrees.


Newsbytes 11/14/01
ICANN: Terrorist attacks change focus to security of Web
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172127.html

by Michael Bartlett
One of the first things that Internet addressing authorities must do to safeguard the security of the Web is assure themselves that their actions aren't actually opening new security holes, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Chairman Vinton Cerf said today.



Newsbytes 11/14/01
Increased security a threat to laptops
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172142.html

by Keith L. Alexander
Washington Post
Sterling, Va. resident Richard Shapiro was flying United Airlines to Missoula, Mont., with his Sony laptop computer when he encountered the post-Sept. 11 security procedures at Dulles International Airport regarding laptops.
Since the terrorist hijackings, travelers must remove laptops from their cases and place the computers on the conveyer belts of X-ray machines.



Modesto Bee 11/13/01
EU approves Internet eavesdropping in bid to combat terrorism
http://www.modbee.com/24hour/technology/story/169847p-1634620c.html

by Constance Brand
Associated Press
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - The European Parliament voted Tuesday to allow anti-terrorist investigators to eavesdrop on private data on the Internet and endorsed beefed up police cooperation in hunting down terrorists.



Computer User 11/14/01
Defendants post colorful daily trial updates online
http://computeruser.com/news/01/11/14/news10.html

by Michael Bartlett
Newsbytes
The American jury trial system has, with rare exceptions, been played out in the public eye for over two centuries. But the Internet has added a whole new dimension of visibility to the legal process.
In the case of Varian Medical Systems, Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Susan B. Felch and George Zdasiuk versus Michelangelo Delfino and Mary Day, not only are Internet message board postings the focus of the plaintiffs' lawsuit, the two co-defendants have also set up a Web site that gives their version of a daily trial update.
These updates are not full of dense legalese, nor are they for the easily offended.



New York Times 11/14/01
Documenting a death camp in Nazi Croatia
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/14/national/14CAMP.html

by Neil A. Lewis
Washington, Nov. 13 -- Officials of the United States Holocaust Museum said today that they had discovered and preserved a cache of decaying documents and artifacts from one of the lesser-known but most brutal concentration camps of World War II. The camp, known as Jasenovac, was operated in Croatia by the Ustasha, the Nazi puppet government.


New York Times 11/13/01
Experts say key Internet servers vulnerable to attack
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/technology/tech-tech-icann-security.html

Reuters
MARINA DEL REY, Calif. (Reuters) - It would not take much for a malicious hacker to shut down the Internet, researchers at a meeting of the body that oversees Web address allocation warned on Tuesday.
An attack designed to flood the Web's master directory servers with traffic ``is capable of bringing down the Internet,'' Paul Vixie, a speaker at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) annual meeting, told Reuters.



Tampa Tribune 11/14/01
Probe of nonprofit reveals possible forged signatures
http://www.tampatrib.com/MGAYPPQM0UC.html

by Laura Kinsler
TAMPA - The U.S. Inspector General's Office is investigating whether signatures were forged in documents that could bring $707,250 to the nonprofit Tampa-Hillsborough Action Plan.


Tallahassee Democrat 11/14/01
Florida asks for baseball records
http://web.tallahasseedemocrat.com/content/tallahassee/2001/11/14/sports/1114.spt.bbinvestigat.1c.htm

by David Royse
AP
Florida Attorney General Bob Butterworth subpoenaed Major League Baseball Tuesday to find out if the state's two teams are part of plans to shrink the league.



Columbia Daily Herald 11/14/01
Judge: Failing to release memo broke the law
http://www.columbiadailyherald.com/display/inn_nosub/news1.txt

by William Bowers
Circuit Court Judge Stella Hargrove dealt another defeat to Columbia Wednesday ruling the city had violated the state's open records law by refusing a request by a citizen for a memorandum from the city manager to the council. She ordered the city to pay more than $800 for the cost of the suit.



The Hawkeye 11/14/01
School Board deals with privacy issues
http://www.thehawkeye.com/daily/stories/ln14118.html

by Kirsten Heerdt
Mount Pleasant __ Members of the Mount Pleasant Community School Board policy committee have their work cut out for them as privacy issues surround its new Web page.
A notice of intended action was sent back to the committee Monday night for further review.
Policy 603.8, entitled Student Access to Networked Information Resources, was intended as a sort of permission slip, signed by parents, to allow their child to access on-line computer services, and to give consent to the district to put students' writing and artwork on the Internet. It was first adopted in 1997.



Ottawa Business Journal 11/13/01
Tarian lands $4M in financing
http://www.ottawabusinessjournal.com/articles/read_article.cfm?aid=qstwzmzzsqnqstwlwwqnmnqstpttnm

by InBusiness Media Network staff
Tarian Software Inc., the Ottawa-based developer of records-management applications, has secured $4 million in second-round financing.



The Register 11/14/01
How WinXP can make non-MS files invisible
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22828.html

by John Lettice
Windows XP's search system includes a bizarre feature that appears to exclude files with non-Microsoft file extensions, under some conditions. It is however so odd that it's surely got to be a bug, rather than monkey business. But you could go as far as saying it's one of those MS things that inconvenience other companies if they don't do things the new way we're doing them in Redmond.



Forbes.com 11/14/01
Ink and Bits Combined
http://biz.yahoo.com/fo/011114/1114tentech_1.html

by Arik Hesseldahl
In the age of e-mail and instant messaging, the short, hand-written note seems to have become a lost art.
But now with a little help from Bluetooth technology and the Internet, you can send a handwritten note by e-mail or fax from wherever you might happen to be.



ZDNET 11/14/01
Making privacy part of your CRM strategy
http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822812,00.html

by Richard De Lotto
Gartner Viewpoint
Whether stipulated by local laws or as a result of market pressure, the protection of consumer privacy is an essential component of the business process for consumer-oriented enterprises. Gartner defines "providing consumer privacy," irrespective of industry, as limiting contact to the degree and methods preferred by that consumer or provided by regulation:



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