July 9, 2006

This could be very useful.

http://www.researchbuzz.org/wp/2006/07/08/using-articles-to-find-interesting-blogs/

July 8, 2006

Using Articles to Find Interesting Blogs

This seems like a useful tool when I’m interesting in an article that’s a bit outside my sphere but want to find similar sources of information, commentary, etc.Similicio.us, at http://similicio.us/, takes articles you specify and finds what folks who linked to that article on Del.icio.us also linked to.

For my test run of the site I tried the article The People Formerly Known as the Audience.

When I plugged that in to Similicio.us, I got a list of sites that was somewhat journalist-oriented — CyberJournalist, Poytner — with some general news sites and blogs thrown in. When I tried to get do a link:http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2006/06/27/ppl_frmr.html at Google, I got NO results (yikes!), while a link search at Technorati found 20 posts over the last four days, sorted by freshness and containing a few duplicates.

Actually I didn’t find much overlap between the Technorati and the Similicio.us results. They might be good tools to use in conjunction with each other…

The same idea, but different...

http://www.researchbuzz.org/wp/2006/07/08/blogging-search-with-a-twist-talk-digger/

July 8, 2006

Blogging Search With a Twist — Talk Digger

When I tried this site, it struck me as working very much like Technorati, except for a couple of differences — it appears to be a meta-search, AND it offers in-search-results previews of what you get (very nice.) Try Talk Digger at http://www.talkdigger.com/.

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8IN98S00.htm?sub=apn_tech_down&chan=tc

The Week's Business: Coca Cola caper

The Associated Press/ATLANTA By HARRY R. WEBER AP Business Writer

JUL. 7 1:04 P.M. ET It wasn't locked up in a bank vault like the recipe for its flagship soda brand.

Instead, prosecutors say a new product sample at the heart of a corporate espionage case at The Coca-Cola Co. was accessible to a secretary.

The episode has made Coke re-evaluate its safeguards for protecting trade secrets, [Shouldn't this be done on a regular basis? Is the fact that is was not protected a defense? Bob] and other corporations ask whether they should do the same -- even as the secretary's lawyer wonders what all the fuss is about.

http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/011730.html

July 07, 2006

Introduction to the Law of Information Privacy

Solove, Daniel J., A Brief History of Information Privacy Law. Book chapter in Proskauer on Privacy (2006).

• "This book chapter provides a brief history of information privacy law in the United States from colonial times to the present. It discusses the development of the common law torts, Fourth Amendment law, the constitutional right to information privacy, numerous federal statutes pertaining to privacy, electronic surveillance laws, and more. It explores how the law has emerged and changed in response to new technologies that have increased the collection, dissemination, and use of personal information."

http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/011752.html

July 07, 2006

GAO Reports on Need for More Effective Agency Facility Security

Homeland Security: Guidance and Standards Are Needed for Measuring the Effectiveness of Agencies' Facility Protection Efforts, Full-text GAO-06-612, and Highlights, May 31, 2006 (released Junly 7, 2006).

• "The need to better protect federal facilities, coupled with federal budget constraints and the increased scrutiny of homeland security funding and programs, has prompted the need for U.S. agencies to measure the performance of their facility protection efforts. In this environment, it is important for these agencies to ensure that investments in facility protection are providing adequate returns in terms of better protecting real property assets against terrorism."

It seems that every few months this site becomes more valuable.

http://digg.com/business_finance/Find_Cheap_Gas_In_Your_Area_With_GasBuddy

Find Cheap Gas In Your Area With GasBuddy

curtissthompson submitted by curtissthompson 18 hours 34 minutes ago (via http://gasbuddy.com/ )

Just select your state/province in the U.S. or Canada and choose the website nearest to were you live, and you'll be ready to find the cheapest gas prices in your area, through GasBuddy's social network of fellow motorists.

Do you suppose IT designed and implemented this without management review?

http://cryocone.livejournal.com/1131.html

Identity leak with Sprint wireless

By dialling a certain phone number from any phone, and punching in the phone number of any sprint subscriber, the service will read the name and street address of the subscriber. It also can read back the names of people who might share the same address.

Does anyone else see this as a problem?

The automated service leaking this data is Sprint's international call identity verification service. I think the theory is that they want to provide extra safeguards so that people can't rack up massive fraudulent bills for international calls, so they want to really verify who you are.

In order to do this, they fall for a classic security blunder. They give you information and ask you if its correct. Worse, it's an automated service, with no concept of what social engineering is.

The call went like this: