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Federal Computer Week 8/5/02
Spread the knowledge
New storage file systems make largescale data sharing easier
http://www.fcw.com/supplements/dwkm/2002/sup-know-08-05-02.asp


ComputerWorld 8/5/02
Web Archiving From the Ground Up
By ROBERT L. MITCHELL
Customers of Corporate Express Inc. who want to review their billing histories can do so by logging into the office products vendor's Web site. The experience of developing a content management system that could deliver those documents on the Web has helped the company refine its archiving strategy for other parts of its Web site as well, says Wayne Aiello, vice president of e-business services at Broomfield, Colo.-based Corporate Express.
http://www.computerworld.com/developmenttopics/websitemgmt/story/0,10801,73176,00.html



Washington Post 8/12/02
Finding a Place for Everything
MetaCarta Tracks Documents Back to Their Source
By Ellen McCarthy
In an era when information exchanges can occur in a nanosecond regardless of physical proximity, geography is nearly irrelevant, right? Not according to John Frank, who
developed technology to sort pieces of information based on their original location.
When Frank was a first-year graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he was working on a project that required him to find information in a specific area.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6683-2002Aug11.html


New York Times 8/12/02
Hacker Obtains Shuttle Design Files, Baffling NASA
By JOHN SCHWARTZ
If America's rocket scientists can't keep their data under wraps, who can?
Cybercrime investigators for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
are trying to figure out how 43 megabytes of sensitive design data about planned
space vehicles got into the hands of a hacker — and then into the hands of a
reporter.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/12/technology/12NASA.html


New York Times 8/15/02
Ghosts of Classrooms Past: A Web Teaching Tool Languishes
By JEFFREY SELINGO
THREE years ago, Doris Ranke, a high school science teacher in Michigan, stumbled across a company that could help her use the Web as a teaching tool. Called HighWired.com, the service provided an easy-to-use template to post homework assignments, moderate discussion forums and exchange e-mail messages with students or parents. And the best part was that it was all free.
"The results were staggering," Ms. Ranke said of her Web site. "Kids who were quiet in class would spill their guts on the discussions, students would e-mail me questions about homework. My contact with kids was 24/7 if I wanted."
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/15/technology/circuits/15TOOL.html?


Government Computer News 8/15/02
Web security is hit-or-miss at local level
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/19639-1.html



Washington Post 8/16/02
Sleuths Invade Military PCs With Ease
By Robert O'Harrow Jr.
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 15 -- Security consultants entered scores of confidential military and government computers without approval this summer, exposing vulnerabilities that specialists say open the networks to electronic attacks and spying.
The consultants, inexperienced but armed with free, widely available software, identified unprotected PCs and then roamed at will through sensitive files containing military procedures, personnel records and financial data.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24191-2002Aug15.html


AMNews 8/19/02
Wipeout: Lessons on protecting Webbased EMR data
Some practices thought they had found a way to afford an electronic medical record -- and then the company that ran it pulled the plug, risking the loss of thousands of patient records.
http://www.ama-assn.org/sci-pubs/amnews/pick_02/bisa0819.htm




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