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RAIN: Weekly Update 12/27



There are 14 stories in this posting.


New York Times 12/27/01
And the password is … Waterloo
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/27/technology/circuits/27PASS.html?ex=1010487436&ei=1&en=e23b2d58f35e6c4f

by Jennifer 8. Lee
Computer passwords are supposed to be personal, disposable and discreet. But people become sentimentally attached to them or leave them taped underneath their keyboards or on their monitors, to the dismay of computer-security professionals worldwide.



Connecticut Post 12/27/01
Orange needs computer backup
http://www.connpost.com/Stories/0,1002,3750%257E297742,00.html

by Genevieve Reilly
FAIRFIELD -- The town needs a better backup and recovery plan for its computer systems, according to a recent audit.
"The main thing we're looking at is the computer stuff," Fiscal Officer Paul Hiller said of the report by Scully & Wolf LLP.



The Daily Yomiuri 12/27/01
Ancient relics tell amusing history
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20011227woaf.htm

by Asami Nagai
For many students, history classes are synonymous with the endless memorization of dates, events and names. To show how engaging history can be, Tokyo National Museum in Ueno Park is holding "Voices from the Past: Historical Sources and Art Treasures," which offers visitors the opportunity to savor historical relics like centuries-old documents and illustrated scrolls.



Daily Yomiuri 12/27/01
Ministry to have hospitals use 'patient-friendly' medical records
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20011227wod1.htm

The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry decided Wednesday it would introduce an electronic medical records system at 60 percent of the country's large hospitals and clinics and computerize more than 70 percent of medical billing by fiscal 2006, ministry sources said.
The information-technology project is aimed at improving public and private hospital standards by making services more efficient and patient-friendly, it said.



New York Times 12/27/01
Farmers abashed, or irate, over subsidy list
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/27/national/27FARM.html?ex=1010459310&ei=1&en=0199838ce47db068

by Elizabeth Becker
Peru, Ill., Dec. 21 - With their fields resting under a thin layer of frost and their tractors put away for the winter, farmers have time to sit around coffee shops and fume over having their most private secrets spread across the newspaper for everyone to talk about.



Dispatch/Sunday News 12/27/01
Goodling donates his documents
http://63.147.65.16/S-ASP-Bin/ReformatSQLIndex.ASP?puid=2752&spuid=2752&Indx=1275943&Article=ON&id=16202910&ro=5

by Lauri Lebo
Former York County Congressman Bill Goodling recently donated about 100 boxes of records to Penn State University containing photos, correspondence and legislative drafts.
The donated records, which eventually will be available on the Internet, amount to nearly 400 linear feet of material accumulated over his career, from 1974 to 2000.



New York Times 12/27/01
In rewritten Internet fables, the late bird gets the worm
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/27/technology/27WEB.html?ex=1010468382&ei=1&en=1e8e1996e005c64c

by Saul Hansell
Irvington, N.Y. - On Sunday, Dec. 16, with little disruption, a small Internet company called iWon began operating the remains of the Web portal Excite.com. IWon picked up Excite - which was valued at $6.7 billion just three years ago - at the fire-sale price of under $10 million as part of the messy bankruptcy of Excite@Home, the company that developed the Excite portal.



Internet Week 12/10/01
Firm forcing use of KM portal
MWH Global employees must access Web-based knowledge repository or forgo e-mail
http://www.internetweek.com/enterprise/enterprise121001.htm

by L. Scott Tillett
MWH Global Inc. wants its 5,500 employees to use the company's new Web knowledge management portal. But since many have proved reluctant to use it, MWH is about to force the issue: If employees want to see their e-mail, they'll have to use the portal.
MWH, an environmental engineering consulting firm, next month will take away employees' IBM Lotus Notes clients, replacing them with the new iNotes Web client, which will provide access to e-mail through the knowledge management (KM) portal.



Philadelphia Inquirer 12/27/01
Judge rejects Scarfo son's bid to suppress computer evidence
http://inq.philly.com/content/inquirer/2001/12/27/local_news/JMOB27.htm

AP
NEWARK - Nicodemo S. Scarfo, a reputed New Jersey mobster, has lost a bid to have information gathered by the FBI through the use of a secret computer system suppressed at his bookmaking trial.
In an opinion letter released yesterday, Judge Nicholas Politan of U.S. District Court in Newark ruled that federal authorities needed only the search warrant they had and not permission for a wiretap when they gathered gambling records from Scarfo's computer.



Miami Herald 12/27/01
State files reveal little on tampered grave sites
http://www.miami.com/herald/content/news/local/florida/digdocs/087629.htm

by Joni James
TALLAHASSEE -- Plaintiffs claiming Menorah Gardens & Funeral Chapels tampered with the graves of their loved ones won't find much supporting evidence in state regulatory files.
In a review of thousands of pages of state records, some of which date back to the early 1990s, The Herald found such shocking allegations apparently came to the attention of regulators only once in the last decade.



Pioneer Press 12/27/01
Minnesota: Family court is opened
http://www.pioneerplanet.com/news/mtc_docs/215629.htm

by Hannah Allam
A Minnesota Supreme Court order Wednesday will open to the public nearly all hearings and files in child-protection cases -- an area of the courts many judges and attorneys say needs increased scrutiny.
The decision, which takes effect in July, follows a controversial three-year pilot program in which Hennepin and 11 other Minnesota counties opened the hearings.



NZOOM.com 12/27/01
Defence: more document shredding
http://onenews.nzoom.com/news_detail/0,1227,74025-1-8,00.html

Papers obtained by ONE News under the Official Information Act show document shredding in the army is more extensive than previously thought.
The Defence Department has been under scrutiny since it was revealed three months ago that a number of documents had been shredded.



Computer World 12/27/01
Security data-sharing bill fails to pass in '01
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/12/27/011227hnsecurebill.xml

by Patrick Thibodeau
DESPITE A STRONG post-Sept. 11 push for passage, legislation intended to encourage companies to share security data with the government -- and one another -- without fear of it becoming public failed to be adopted this year.



Wired 12/27/01
Steganography, next generation
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,49213,00.html

by Tani Hershman
Steganography, the science of burying secret messages within something innocuous, has endured bad publicity recently, with unsubstantiated rumors of missives from Osama bin Laden hidden in images on websites.
But the good guys can play, too. A new steganography-based technique hides barcodes inside pictures and could help create forgery-proof identity documents.




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