You rarely know the victims. Perhaps this will prompt new law?
http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20070624165423345
UK: £15m Charles' Bank Secrets Stolen
Sunday, June 24 2007 @ 04:54 PM CDT Contributed by: PrivacyNews News Section: Breaches
PRINCE Charles's personal bank details have been stolen, it was feared last night.
They include his vital account number, sort code and national insurance number.
The Prince's secret details are believed to have been on a laptop computer stolen from an accountant's car. The accountant works for payroll firm Moorepay which handles wages for Charles's Duchy of Cornwall estate.
Source - The People
Weekly recap
http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20070625061018458
Data “Dysprotection:” breaches reported last week
Monday, June 25 2007 @ 06:10 AM CDT Contributed by: PrivacyNews News Section: Breaches
A recap of incidents or privacy breaches reported last week for those who enjoy shaking their head and muttering to themselves with their morning coffee.
Source - Data “Dysprotection:” breaches reported last week
Ubiquitous surveillance
http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20070625053500735
When Public Records Are Too Public (commentary)
Monday, June 25 2007 @ 05:59 AM CDTContributed by: PrivacyNews News Section: Internet & Computers
The Web wasn't created to appeal to our sense of voyeurism. It just feels that way sometimes.
I'm not talking about dirty pictures, but the ability the Web's given all of us to snoop on our friends, colleagues and neighbors, from Googling the new guy in the next cube to finding out what the people next door paid for their house to seeing which neighbors have given money to which candidates and parties.
Source - Wall Street Journal
Are you secure enough to be our customer? I love it! Note: This has been a B2B fact of life for years, but still a TJX can pass the Credit Card audit... Banks are trying to shift liability there too.
http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20070624120939982
NZ: Banks demand a look inside customer PCs in fraud cases
Sunday, June 24 2007 @ 12:09 PM CDT Contributed by: PrivacyNews News Section: Non-U.S. News
Banks are seeking access to customer PCs used for online banking transactions to verify whether they have enough security protection.
Under the terms of a new banking Code of Practice, banks may request access in the event of a disputed transaction to see if security protection in is place and up to date.
The code, issued by the Bankers’ Association last week after lengthy drafting and consultation, now has a new section dealing with internet banking.
Liability for any loss resulting from unauthorised internet banking transactions rests with the customer if they have “used a computer or device that does not have appropriate protective software and operating system installed and up-to-date, [or] failed to take reasonable steps to ensure that the protective systems, such as virus scanning, firewall, antispyware, operating system and anti-spam software on [the] computer, are up-to-date.”
Source - Computerworld (NZ)
See what i mean...
http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=2007062505400283
Banks Claim Share of Credit Card Security Costs Is Unfair
Monday, June 25 2007 @ 06:01 AM CDT Contributed by: PrivacyNews News Section: Businesses & Privacy
A panel of financial services and retail executives this month disagreed on which side bears the brunt of the burden to ensure compliance with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard.
Executives from JPMorgan Chase & Co. and First Horizon National Corp. told an audience at Symantec Corp.’s Vision user conference here that high-profile data breaches at retailers like The TJX Companies Inc. are not originating from their side of the fence — yet they must spend significant sums to make sure such incidents don’t happen.
... An AT&T Inc. executive, on the other hand, contended that banks have so far done little to share in the burden of ensuring credit and debit card security compared with businesses that accept such payments.
Source - Computerworld
Perhaps classes should be copyrighted, then the RIAA could post armed guards in each classroom?
http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20070624165131438
AU: Teachers being secretly filmed by students
Sunday, June 24 2007 @ 04:51 PM CDT Contributed by: PrivacyNews News Section: Non-U.S. News
HIGH school teachers have complained they are being secretly filmed by students in the classroom and the videos posted on the internet.
In a sinister development involving mobile phone cameras, videos taken by students during classes are appearing on the MySpace and YouTube sites, The Daily Telegraph has learned.
Source - Adelaide Now
How to look like a terrorist. Note how these guidelines still assume a traditional (1950s?) work ethic
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/24/1731244&from=rss
FBI Seeks To Restrict University Student Freedoms
Posted by Zonk on Sunday June 24, @04:41PM from the damned-liberal-freethinking-commie-pinkos dept.
amigoro writes with a link to the Press Escape blog, which is discussing new guidelines suggest by the FBI for university administrations. The Federal Bureau, worried about the possibility of international espionage via our centers of learning, now sees the need to restrict the freedoms of university students for national security. "FBI is offering to brief faculty, students and staff on what it calls 'espionage indicators' aimed at identifying foreign agents. Unexplained affluence, failing to report overseas travel, showing unusual interest in information outside the job scope, keeping unusual work hours, unreported contacts with foreign nationals, unreported contact with foreign government, military, or intelligence officials, attempting to gain new accesses without the need to know, and unexplained absences are all considered potential espionage indicators."
Games for profits. Follow your niche! (This goes in my “Start a Small Business” folder.)
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/24/0625221&from=rss
WoW Database Site Sells For $1 Million
Posted by Zonk on Sunday June 24, @05:29AM from the almost-enough-for-an-epic-flying-mount dept. Role Playing (Games) Businesses The Almighty Buck
MattHock writes "Wowhead (a WoW information database) has been sold to ZAM (Affinity Media) for the price of $1 million. ZAM is the owner of several other WoW databases, including Thottbot and Allakhazam. Until recently Affinity was also the owner of IGE, a highly controversial company that sold in-game wealth for real life money. Affinity recently sold IGE, which Wowhead claims as the reason they allowed the sale to go through. But did ZAM really sell IGE? The blogger who put this story online doubts that IGE and ZAM have actually distanced themselves. He believes that the supposed sale was just actually a means of restructuring to hide the relationship, similar to how IGE's relationship to Thottbot was hidden for a number of months through a convoluted set of parent companies."
Here's an example of a simple, geographically limited “business” that can be easily replicated for a variety of niche markets, depending on what interests you.
http://www.researchbuzz.org/wp/2007/06/24/vermont-directory-of-foundations-now-available/
Vermont Directory of Foundations Now Available
Filed under: US-Vermont
The Vermont Community Foundation has published the latest version of the Vermont Directory of Foundations in three different ways — printed book, free PDF download, and a free searchable database, now available at http://fdovermont.foundationcenter.org/.
Is this an indication of a change in Hollywood?
A Spurned Parody of ‘Die Hard’ Returns to YouTube, Approved
By MARIA ASPAN June 25, 2007
The story seems familiar to online video users: fans create a parody video using pirated studio content and post it on YouTube, and the studio’s lawyers quickly have it removed for violating copyright law. But this time the studio’s marketing team relented —and even paid the fans to repost their video.
Last August, a New York-based “comic-rock” group named Guyz Nite created an online video for their song “Die Hard,” a rather worshipful three-minute guide to 20th Century Fox’s action-movie franchise starring Bruce Willis. (The song’s refrain says, “We’re gonna die, die, die as hard as we can!”) The video used clips from the first three “Die Hard” movies, and within days Fox’s legal department requested that the video be removed from YouTube.
But in February, with a fourth “Die Hard” movie on the horizon, Fox’s marketing department contacted the band and offered to pay it to repost the video, using additional video clips to promote the new film, “Live Free or Die Hard,” which opens on Wednesday. The new version of the video has been viewed almost 90,000 times on YouTube; the reposted old version has been viewed almost 100,000 times.
... The “Die Hard” video, with its jaunty tune and irreverent plot summaries of the first three movies, is reminiscent of “Seven Minute Sopranos,” a tightly edited video guide to the first six seasons of the HBO series. That video was later revealed to be the work of an HBO employee.
[The video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTyw6cq86kY ]
How can you possibly do research in all languages? (see next article)
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/015243.html
June 24, 2007
Encyclopedic Reference Work Cataloging all of the World’s 6,912 Known Living Languages
Ethnologue: "An encyclopedic reference work cataloging all of the world’s 6,912 known living languages." [This web edition of the Ethnologue contains all the content of the print edition and may be cited as: Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.), 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International. Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com/.]
Well, maybe not all languages, but more every day.
http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9731147-2.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=Webware
How to translate RSS feeds
By Rafe Needleman – June 19, 2007, 5:00 AM PDT
... It's not as easy as using a one-step translation service, but it's worth the effort for reading blogs you think you might like that are not in your language. I'll walk through a demo of translating Webware into French. Here's what you do:
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