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RAIN 02/03: Weekly Update 02/01 Part 1



There are 13 stories in this posting.


USA Today 02/01/02
Andersen papers lost in Sunbeam case
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/usatoday/20020131/bs_usatoday/3816966

Greg Farrell USA TODAY
HOUSTON -- Arthur Andersen's admission that it destroyed Enron documents during a government investigation wasn't a first for the auditor.
Four years ago, as the Securities and Exchange Commission was investigating
Sunbeam's restatement of earnings, sensitive documents relating to that audit
were destroyed in Andersen's Fort Lauderdale office, court records show.
On Nov. 16, 1998, months after Andersen restated Sunbeam's earnings for 1996
and 1997, and after Sunbeam had been hit with a barrage of shareholder lawsuits, an Andersen partner said the firm ordered its Fort Lauderdale employees to dispose of any work papers or correspondence ''that don't agree with the final documentation'' of the Sunbeam restatement.



Washington Post 02/01/02
Celebrating An Unsung Portion of U.S. Fabric
Black History Exhibit Reveals a Common 'Thread'
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5496-2002Jan31.html

by Michael E. Ruane
There had been a big frost that morning on Hard-Scrabble Plantation, along Louisiana's Bayou de Glazes, and the weather bore noting in the overseer's journal.
A few miles from where the Mississippi River passes on its way toward Baton Rouge, the plantation was perhaps unaccustomed to frost. Or maybe the overseer was just being
diligent, for his records were meticulous.



New York Times 02/01/02
Bush Policy on Releasing Records
Differs in Case of Clinton Ones
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/01/business/01DISC.html

By DON VAN NATTA Jr.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 — President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have said their refusal to give Congress information about the administration's contacts with energy industry executives was based on the executive branch's fundamental right to receive "unvarnished" advice from people outside the government.
But two months ago, the Bush administration authorized the release to Congress of thousands of e-mail communications by senior White House officials in the Clinton administration, including messages sent by outside advisers and senior aides to Vice President Al Gore.


Dallas Morning News 02/01/02
Valley officials cheer ruling on census data
http://www.dallasnews.com/texassouthwest/stories/CensusLawsuit_013102early.9f7ef.html

Associated Press
BROWNSVILLE – Attorneys for two counties and 37 Rio Grande Valley cities say they got
what they wanted when a federal judge ruled that the government's adjusted population data for the 2000 Census is public information.
Access to the data, they said, will prove their contention that there was an undercount of at least 22,000 in Cameron County and of at least 56,000 in Hidalgo County. Local officials said the undercount, if not corrected, would translate into losses to the local communities of up to $175 million in federal funds used for health, education and transportation in the next decade.



Philadelphia Inquirer 02/01/02
Aiming to keep Civil War items here
The Civil War Library wants to move holdings to Va. The Union League and others crafted
another proposal.
http://inq.philly.com/content/inquirer/2002/02/01/local_news/PCIVIL01.htm

By Stephan Salisbury
An ambitious plan to prevent the vast collections of the Civil War Library and Museum from marching off to Richmond and a new home in the heart of the old Confederacy has been put together by a group of local cultural organizations and submitted to Philadelphia Orphans' Court for review, according to a number of participants.



Wired 01/31/02
Pupils and Porn and Games, Oh My
http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,50001,00.html

By Katie Dean
It wasn't surprising that some kids started downloading pornography shortly after
Virginia's Henrico County Public Schools distributed over 11,000 Apple iBooks to
its high school students.
Nor was it surprising that they surreptitiously played games in class and gobbled
up bandwidth trading music and movie files.



Wired 01/25/02
Turning Macs on Thievery
http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,50025,00.html

By Leander Kahney
Every year about 400,000 computers are stolen in the United States. Only 3 percent are ever recovered. But after his sister's iMac was taken during a burglary, a Houston man was able to get it back using remote-control software, expert help from friends on the Net, a large dose of luck and some incredible naiveté on the thief's part.



Green Bay News-Chronicle 02/01/02
Key river, bay data still unavailable online
A local activist suggests the motive is to block public access
http://www.greenbaynewschron.com/page.html?article=112295

By Michelle Kennedy
U.S. Interior Secretary Gale Norton's decision to close down virtually all of her department's Web sites has come under fire by local and national environmental agencies
and organizations.
The groups say Norton overreacted to a federal judge's order blocking access to private data involving Native American trust funds.



Washington Post 02/01/02
Enron Says It Can't Supply Data
Hill Probers Requested Partnership Information
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5792-2002Jan31.html

By Kathleen Day
An attorney for Enron Corp. said yesterday that the company cannot provide Congress with the names of the investors in the controversial partnerships the company used to
move millions of dollars in debt off its books and whose losses triggered the company's fall into bankruptcy.
"You have to go to the entities to get that information," Robert Bennett, a Washington lawyer representing Enron, said of the partnerships. "We do not have control over those
documents. They are separate entities."




Internet.com 02/01/02
Enron: A Wake-up Call for Content Management
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article/0,,3_967071,00.html

By Clint Boulton
Much of the extensive media coverage encompassing the recent Enron debacle has centered on the notion of "shredded documents." It's even become the subject of snarky cartoons in such lauded publication's as The New Yorker, whose Feb. 4 issue features an illustration of a man walking by a storefront that has the words "Enron Recycling Center" plastered across its window.



InfoWorld 02/01/02
MSPs tempt users with storage management services
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/02/01/020201hnmspstorage.xml?0201frpm

By Brian Fonseca
MSPS (MANAGED SERVICE providers) are tempting customers to consider hosted storage management as a way to jump start the utilization of a glut of underused storage equipment and navigate complex storage environments, according to industry analysts.
Loudcloud followed that trend this week by announcing its subscription-based Storage Management Services 2.0, powered by Opsware and featuring greater flexibility around the MSP's Web site storage offering to accommodate customers requiring different levels of capacity and speed based on Web site activity.




Government Technology 01/11/02
W.Va. checks drivers’ photos with FaceIt
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/17745-1.html

By Trudy Walsh
GCN Staff
West Virginia’s Motor Vehicles Department is piloting the use of facial recognition
software to verify license applicants and holders.
Digimarc ID Systems of Tualatin, Ore., is installing FaceIt recognition software from
Visionics Corp. of Jersey City, N.J., to compare each new license photo against 2
million JPEG photos stored in the DMV database, said David Bolyard, director of
driver services. Within a few seconds, the system returns any similar photos so that
DMV officials can revoke fraudulent or duplicate licenses.



Fayetteville Observer 01/31/02
Identity theft ruins woman’s finances
http://www.fayettevillenc.com/obj_stories/2002/jan/n31theft.shtml

By Christina DeNardo
Who is Leslie Kio?
Until September, the North Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles thought she was a heavyset black woman in her 30s. There was no reason to doubt it. The woman had walked into the DMV office with an original birth certificate and Social Security card.
She walked out with a driver’s license -- and with a license to rack up thousands of dollars in bills without paying a cent.



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