What weighs more than privacy?
http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20071128085136207
Ariz. judges favor some privacy for nameless e-mails
Wednesday, November 28 2007 @ 08:51 AM EST Contributed by: PrivacyNews News Section: In the Courts
The state Court of Appeals on Tuesday spelled out new privacy protections for those who use the Internet to send anonymous messages.
In the first ruling of its kind in Arizona, the judges said those who believe they have been harmed by anonymous Internet postings or e-mail cannot use Arizona courts to discover the identity of the senders unless they can prove their interests outweigh the privacy of those who originated the messages.
Source - Arizona Daily Star
Related - Commentary and Ruling [pdf] at EFF.
New numbers.
http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20071128084030908
If Security Is Expensive, Try Getting Hacked
Wednesday, November 28 2007 @ 08:40 AM EST Contributed by: PrivacyNews News Section: Breaches
Oops. Last week, the British government conceded that it had misplaced 25 million private records of its citizens. That blunder was just the latest in a series of embarrassing data debacles--remember how retailer TJX lost 45 million customers' credit card details to hackers in January? Altogether, 2007 will go down in the record books as a thoroughly lousy year for keeping information private.
[...] A set of case studies released Wednesday by the Ponemon Institute surveyed 35 companies that had experienced data breaches and found the average cost of a private information leak in 2007 to be $6.3 million, up from $4.8 million in 2006. .... Of the $198 average cost of each personal record lost this year, about $18 was spent on finding new customers to replace those who fled following a breach--up from $14.50 spent on customer acquisition in 2006 and just $7 in 2005. Companies are also spending more on public relations damage control after data security incidents: 3% of data breach costs are now associated with post-breach P.R., compared with just 1% last year, and practically nothing in 2005.
Source - Forbes
Related - InformationWeek: The Cost Of Data Loss Rises
It takes too long to resolve these...
http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=13000BY44X2M
Amazon Wins Privacy Battle with Feds
By Frederick Lane November 28, 2007 10:39AM
In a June opinion that was just unsealed on Tuesday, Magistrate Stephen Crocker acknowledged that the FBI had no particular interest in what Amazon's customers were reading, but he said that the request by the FBI for information on some 24,000 Amazon customers was still troubling. "It is an unsettling and un-American scenario," he wrote.
A federal magistrate in Madison, Wisconsin has harshly criticized the FBI for its aggressive efforts to force Amazon.com to reveal the identities of more than 24,000 individuals who purchased used books from Robert D'Angelo, the subject of a tax fraud investigation.
In the summer of 2006, a grand jury investigating the allegations issued a subpoena to the online bookseller, ordering it to produce the information requested by government agents. The government hoped to contact individuals who had purchased books from D'Angelo and obtain information that they could use as evidence against him. Amazon refused to provide the identities of specific purchasers to the FBI and moved to quash the subpoena.
Why anonymous is good!
http://www.gigalaw.com/news/2007/11/critical-blogs-shine-light-on-judges.html
Critical Blogs Shine Light on Judges' Actions
A handful of legal blogs that have started in South Florida in the past two years that have shone a spotlight on the justice system. Supporters credit the blogs with providing valuable information about the inner workings of the court system, and bringing change. Critics counter that the blogs can be venues for inaccurate information and unsubstantiated personal attacks.
Read the article: law.com | Posted: 11/28/2007 05:00:00 PM | Permalink
This should be useful for almost everyone...
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/016673.html
November 28, 2007
Report - The Search is On: State CIO Starting Points for E-Discovery
National Association of State Chief Information Officers - The Search Is On: State CIO Starting Points for E-Discovery
November 2007: "In its September 2007 Issue Brief entitled Seek and Ye Shall Find? State CIOs Must Prepare Now for E-Discovery!, NASCIO raised the importance of State CIO involvement in e-discovery and the need for collaborative state electronic records management activities to properly address e-discovery requests. In this follow-up Research Brief, NASCIO provides starting points for State CIOs to improve the state’s ability to successfully address legal requests for electronic information.
Topics include:
Getting Started on Electronic Records Management
Managing an Electronic Records Management Initiative
The Role of Records Retention Schedules · The Challenge of Retrieving Electronic Information
Electronic Records Management Training and Awareness for State Employees
Work from home...
Survey: A quarter of U.S. workers telecommute regularly
While more workers would like permission to work off-site, management is often wary of the possibilities, survey also finds
By Chris Kanaracus, IDG News Service November 27, 2007
A survey released Tuesday by Citrix Online found that 23 percent of American workers regularly do their jobs from someplace besides the office, and that 62 percent of respondents who cannot work off-site would like to.
...and Google (eventually) will tell your boss which bar you are actually in!
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/28/2325223&from=rss
Google Maps GPS Simulator
Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday November 28, @07:32PM from the google-where-you-are dept. Google Cellphones Handhelds
garbletext writes "A new version of Google Maps introduced this week includes a beta feature dubbed My Location that was designed to simulate the GPS experience on mobile phones and handheld devices that do not include GPS hardware, like Apple's iPhone. Essentially, the My Location feature takes information broadcast from mobile towers near non-GPS equipped mobile phones to approximate the device's current location on the map down to about 10 city blocks. "It's not GPS, but it comes pretty close (approximately 1000m close, on average)," the Mountain View, Calif.-based search giant explained on its website. "We're still in beta, but we're excited to launch this feature and are constantly working to improve our coverage and accuracy." The My Location feature is currently available for most web-enabled mobile phones, including Java, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, and Nokia/Symbian devices."
For the Security (Hacker) toolkit
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/11/27/open-up-almost-any-file-with-universal-extractor/
Open up almost any file with Universal Extractor
Posted Nov 27th 2007 5:00PM by Brad Linder
Universal Extractor lets you peek inside the contents of EXE and MSI files.
Ditto (Trolling for Class Action?)
EFF Releases Reports and Software to Spot Interference with Internet Traffic
November 28, 2007 - 12:36pm — MacRonin
San Francisco - In the wake of the detection and reporting of Comcast Corporation's controversial interference with Internet traffic, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has published a comprehensive account of Comcast's packet-forging activities and has released software and documentation instructing Internet users on how to test for packet forgery or other forms of interference by their own ISPs.
General tools & tips (The templates alone are worth it)
The Excel Magician: 70+ Excel Tips and Shortcuts to help you make Excel Magic
Are you working with Excel and want take your Excel skills to the next level? Or do you want to learn Excel and don’t know where to start? Check out these 70+ tips and shortcuts that will help you make Excel Magic.
Another list. I'll happily waste hours looking at these sites.
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/tutorial_sites.php
A Big List of Sites That Teach You How To Do Stuff
Written by Josh Catone / November 28, 2007
I wonder if it includes cell phone courtesy?
Cell Phone College Class Opens in Japan
By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer Nov 28, 8:29 AM EST
TOKYO (AP) -- Japanese already use cell phones to shop, read novels, exchange e-mail, search for restaurants and take video clips. Now, they can take a university course.
For my web site class
http://www.killerstartups.com/Web-App-Tools/gifup--Create-Fun-Animation/
GIFUP.com - Create Fun Animation
GIFUP is your personal GIF generator to make anamiations.
Ditto
http://www.killerstartups.com/Web-App-Tools/genfavicon--Create-Your-Own-Icon/
Genfavicon.com - Create Your Own Icon
Genfavicon.com is a site that features an application that allows you to create an icon out of the image of your choice. Simple select your image, by pasting in the URL address or uploading the image. Then choose which part of the image you wish to make the icon by dragging the mouse and cutting the desired shape.
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