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RAIN: Weekly Update 12/26



There are 12 stories in this posting


ABCNews.com 12/26/01
Ending the hunt for medical records
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/TechTV/techtv_meddata011226.html

by Terry McElhatton
Tech Live
Most hospitals and medical centers throw out X-ray, MRI, and CT scan film after five years. Patients usually have no idea their images are gone - until it's too late.
Existing digital storage done by major companies is both proprietary and expensive. But now a Silicon Valley company called RadVault is offering a cost-effective, online PC solution that could help doctors save lives.



Columbia Daily Tribune 12/26/01
Attacks cause feds to yank open records
http://www.showmenews.com/2001/Dec/20011226News002.asp

by Mike Fuhrman
It seemed like a strange request for an obscure document.
But when combined with the federal government's decision to remove other "public" information from the public domain, does it represent an affront to the American way of life?



USA Today 12/26/01
Electronic records baffle agencies
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/fcw1.htm

by William Matthews
A survey of more than 150 federal agencies and departments concludes that most agencies are still baffled by electronic records.
According to the National Archives and Records Administration, most federal agencies create documents in electronic formats, but when preserving them as official records, print them on paper and put them into storage.



Washington Post 12/26/01
Editorial: Executive Privilege - Again
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24956-2001Dec25.html

PRESIDENT BUSH has made his first executive privilege assertion to resist disclosure of Justice Department documents to the House Government Reform Committee and its chairman, Dan Burton. The privilege claim has provoked howls of protest, both from Mr. Burton (R-Ind.) and from the committee's Democratic minority. Both are united in opposition to what they claim is a White House policy of stonewalling congressional inquiries.



New York Times 12/26/01
Former colleagues reconnect, if briefly
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/26/business/26NETW.html?ex=1010375767&ei=1&en=0cc87a8014658a30

by Susan Stellin
Friendships born around a water cooler tend to fade when people leave their jobs and no longer have office gossip to share. While the Internet has not exactly overturned that pattern, it has created a forum for hundreds of e-mail lists and Web sites that enable former colleagues to keep in touch, plan reunions and share job leads.



Tri-City Herald 12/26/01
Identity theft plagues victims
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/2001/1226/story1.html

by Janine Jobe
Gail David doesn't know when it happened or how.
The first inkling was a $4,000 bill from a computer company she had done business with. The bill was not hers. Somebody else used her name.
"Who knows what would have happened if I hadn't noticed," David said. "I shut her down pretty quickly."



The Province 12/26/01
Hydro files probed for clues to big fish kill on Columbia
http://www.canada.com/vancouver/news/story.asp?id={B0EEAD2E-E06A-4E4C-8408-950B4228EC70}

by Charlie Anderson
Federal and provincial fisheries officers are combing through six boxes of documents seized from B.C. Hydro's Burnaby head office searching for clues into a massive fish kill July 10 on the Columbia River.
More than 18000 rainbow trout, dace, whitefish and suckers were killed after B.C. Hydro cut the flow of water from its Keenleyside Dam from 25,000 cubic feet per second to 15,000 cubic feet per second.



Washington Post 12/26/01
Medical record-keeping a priority
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19745-2001Dec24.html

by Eun-Kyung Kim
WASHINGTON -- Hoping to prevent an Afghan War Syndrome, military health officials are applying a decade's worth of lessons from the Persian Gulf conflict to U.S. troops now in conflicts abroad, whether it's against the Abu Sayyaf rebels in the Philippines or Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan.



Computer User 12/26/01
Bill strengthens Internet criminal sentencing
http://www.computeruser.com/news/01/12/26/news4.html

Newsbytes
A new bill introduced this month in the House of Representatives would give judges greater power to apply tough sentences to online criminals.
The bill, H.R. 3482 - the Cyber Security Enhancement Act of 2001 - was introduced by House Science Committee Chairman Sherwood Boehlert, R-N.Y., and Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, and would give judges additional factors to consider in sentencing cybercriminals.



New York Times 12/26/01
On display, once again, artifacts of police past
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/26/nyregion/26MUSE.html?ex=1010409237&ei=1&en=1294882ae76f5367

by Robert F. Worth
Not many museums have a display of the drugs available on the streets of New York City, complete with syringes, pipes and other paraphernalia.



Rocky Mountain News 12/26/01
Editorial: Muddled child-abuse records
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/opinion/article/0,1299,DRMN_38_919693,00.html

Colorado's Central Registry of Child Protection is a nightmare. Its massive database is supposed to contain a complete list of incidents of child abuse and neglect, but a recent performance audit found the data riddled with errors.
The most serious errors are those where people who should be on the list because they've been convicted of child abuse are not listed, while people who have been acquitted are not removed from the list. Either kind of error can result in lives lost or ruined.



St. Paul Pioneer Press 12/26/01
Security consultant finds plenty of holes to plug
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/svfront/073824.htm

by Martin J. Moylan
SAINT PAUL, Minn. -- Cruising about the Twin Cities, with his wireless laptop on the seat next to him, Brad Rubin can see one business opportunity after another pop up on his computer screen.
His laptop, hooked to a homemade antenna housed in a Pringles can, runs sniffer software that detects wireless networks, even those people have tried to hide. Many are not protected by encryption, making it easy for someone with a wireless modem to plug into them and snoop -- or worse, Rubin says.




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