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RAIN 0210 Weekly Update: Destruction (21)



There are 21 stories in this posting.


Waco Tribune 01/23/02
Paper shredding commonplace for business, individuals
http://www.wacotrib.com/auto/feed/news/2002/01/23/1011847315.05426.6058.0019.html (

By J.B. SMITH
Thanks to Richard Nixon and Ollie North, the paper shredder has long been  known for its ability to chew up incriminating documents. Now Enron, the Houston energy company that is under federal investigation, has been accused of undertaking a mass shred-in for similar reasons.
But Tommy Roberson has a different rationale for running his old bills and junk mail through a miniature shredder at his home before they go out to the curb. He doesn't want his identity stolen.



Detroit News 01/27/02
Paper shredders now more than tools of spies and criminals
http://www.detnews.com/2002/metro/0201/27/b01-400759.htm

By Laura Berman
Someone summed up the irony of Enron's accountants scurrying around with document shredders: "I'm saving my Visa receipts for seven years and the accountants are
shredding the Enron audit documents?"
The Visa receipt saver -- OK, it was my mother -- has a valid point. It used to be that shredding was strictly extreme -- the last resort of desperate spies, Oliver North, and white-collar criminals on TV drama. Oh, and 15-year-old boys on snow boards.



San Francisco Chronicle 01/27/02
Shredding scandal has a trashy feel about it
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/01/27/BU29030.DTL&type=business

by Alan T. Saracevic
Oliver North once told Congress that the government wouldn't have bought him a shredder if they didn't want him to use it.
Who can forget that great moment in American history? It made Ollie North a hero and gave the paper shredder a bad image. Now, 15 years later, the shredder is back on Capitol Hill and its rep is back in the Dumpster, so to speak.


Newsweek 01/29/02
Evidence Destroyed
A look back at the strange history of shredding
http://www.msnbc.com/news/696082.asp?cp1=1


St. Petersburg Times 02/01/02
Paper shredding business piles up
http://www.sptimes.com/2002/02/01/Business/Paper_shredding_busin.shtml


ABC News 02/02/02
Degrees of Difficulty
Expert: Some Shredded Documents Easier to Reconstruct Than Others
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/GMA/DailyNews/enron_shredding020202.html


Star-Tribune 02/03/02
Experts say companies must be careful on document destruction
http://www.startribune.com/stories/535/1202001.html


Star-Tribune 02/03/02
Document shredding is futile in a digital, networked world
http://www.startribune.com/stories/535/1201728.html


Star-Tribune 02/03/02
Business Forum: Shreds of evidence
http://www.startribune.com/stories/535/1135363.html


Oxfordshire 02/03/02
Medical records destroyed in fire
http://www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/oxfordshire/news/NEWS4.html


Christian Science Monitor 02/04/02
Beyond a shred of evidence, a sales boom
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0204/p03s01-ussc.html


News.com 02/04/02
Computers hinder paper shredders
http://investor.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem/0-9900-1028-8698271-0.html?tag=ats

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-829071.html


Dallas Morning News 02/05/02
Paper shredders cut both ways
http://www.dallasnews.com/texasliving/stories/shredding_05liv.ART.56d8b.html


Indianapolis Star 02/05/02
Service gives clients security by taking out the paper trash
http://www.starnews.com/article.php?smallbiz05.html,business

Indianapolis Start 02/05/02
How's business nationwide? It's really picking up
http://www.starnews.com/article.php?smallbizside05.html


Newsday 02/05/02
Tracking Down Enron
Computer experts to root out missing files
http://www.newsday.com/business/local/newyork/ny-bzenro052576192feb05.story?coll=ny-nybusiness-headlines


Darwin 01/30/02
Record Keeping at Enron
http://www.darwinmag.com/read/thoughts/column.html?ArticleID=243


Los Angeles Times 02/06/02
Cutting Edge of Secrecy
"Better shred than read" are the new watchwords of white-collar America. But
inquiring minds are getting better at picking up the pieces.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-020602shred.story


KTVB 02/08/02
Shredding business booms
http://ktvb.com/news/newstory.html?StoryID=11110


The Western Australian 02/08/02
Missing files - finance broker records may have been destroyed
http://www.thewest.com.au/20020208/news/perth/tw-news-perth-home-sto43628.html




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