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RAIN 623 Weekly Update: Technology (9)



San Francisco Chronicle 6/17/02
Spam becoming more annoying Some junk e-mail even uses virus to steal identities
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/06/17/BU176919.DTL&type=tech


Federal Computer Week 6/17/02
Midrange tape keeps on rolling
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2002/0617/tec-tape-06-17-02.asp


Toledo Blade 6/18/02
Make sure you have backup copies of files
By MICHAEL WOODS
- Concern about computer viruses is overshadowing another serious threat to the security of data on personal computers.
It's widespread neglect in backing up files. That means keeping "just-in-case" copies of files stored on 3.5-inch diskettes, compact discs (CD), special Internet sites or other places outside a computer's hard disk.
http://www.knoxstudio.com/shns/story.cfm?pk=NOVICE-06-18-02&cat=AS


Wall Street Journal 6/18/02
Instant Messages' Popularity Pushes Brokerages Into Action
By STEPHANIE MILES
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ONLINE
Internet "instant messaging'' has overtaken the business world -- and that has set off a scramble at Wall Street firms, which are required to archive their every communication.
Securities and Exchange Commission rules state any records related to "business as such" must be retained by firms for three years. So-called IM conversations -- like phone calls and e-mail -- would presumably fall under that rule, although it hasn't been tested by any specific case, an SEC spokesman said.
http://online.wsj.com/article_print/0,,SB1023472755295278040,00.html


Fast Company.com 6/19/02
How Google Searches Itself
http://www.fastcompany.com/online/60/google.html


Wired 6/19/02
Richard Nixon's Last Secret
Richard Nixon took the secret to his grave. Thirty years after the Watergate break-in, there's a race to unerase - and it's hitting high gear.
By Tom McNichol
Paul Ginsberg owns more than 100 tape recorders, most of them crammed into his basement audio lab, a low-ceilinged lair in Spring Valley, New York, that he likes to call the Tape Cave. There's a clunky Revox reel-to-reel from the early '70s that looks like it's straight out of the Partridge Family's garage; 13 Tascam cassette decks modified to copy tapes at various speeds; dozens of microcassette recorders scattered about like matchbooks; and a Nagra SNS, the subminiature reel-to-reel that went up in smoke at the beginning of every episode of Mission: Impossible. But it's another reel-to-reel that holds a special place in Ginsberg's collection. "This is the baby," he says, watching the tape revolve. "It's a Sony TC-800B, the same kind used by the Nixon White House to record the Watergate tapes."
As it happens, Ginsberg has dusted off his old Sony just in time, because the Nixon White House is suddenly hotter than ever. Capitalizing on the 30th anniversary of the Watergate break-in, former Nixon counselor John Dean has stirred up a media frenzy with a book that claims to unmask the case-breaking source Deep Throat. Meanwhile, Ginsberg is among a handful of forensic audio experts vying to crack the infamous 181é2-minute gap in a White House tape recorded three days after the burglary.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.07/nixon_pr.html


New York Times 6/20/02
The Librarian's Web Dilemma
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/20/technology/circuits/20FILT.html


New York Times 2/7/02
You Can Surf, but You Can't Hide
By LISA GUERNSEY
AKING a phone call has always been a game of chance. You never know whether the person you are calling is available. You just punch in the numbers and hope to get lucky.
Imagine being able to learn without dialing a single digit whether another person's phone is in use, or in the case of a cellphone, whether it is even turned on. Now imagine being able to do the same thing with any wired or wireless device of the future — whether it is in the car, in an airplane or at the gym. Not only could you learn whether a person is available for a chat, but you could also deduce what that person might be doing at that exact moment, all without exchanging a word.
That is the idea behind a programming concept called presence awareness, which is based on the realization that appliances on a network can automatically be detected by other devices.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/07/technology/circuits/07HERE.html


The Canberra Times 6/21/02
New lab zooms in on fake documents
By VERONA BURGESS
Fraudulent documents such as false passports, visas and birth certificates will be
more easily identified in a new federal laboratory opened in Sydney.
The new state-of-the-art laboratory would play a key role in deterring would-be
document and immigration fraudsters, Immigration Minister Philip Ruddock said yesterday.
http://canberra.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=...s=national&category=general%20news&story_id=158319




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