This is interesting in that the principal is assuming the worst instead of trying to minimize the incident.
http://www.todayonline.com/articles/230068.asp
Laptops, student data missing after school break-in
Teo Xuanwei xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg Singapore News // Wednesday, January 2, 2008
The culprits of a break-in on Monday could have taken far more than just the three laptops they stole from Camford Business School.
But the ones they took contained the data of the school's students.
In an email sent to Today, Mr Indra, the school's principal, said he wanted to raise the alarm on the theft.
"The culprit was not interested in any of our assets except for our students' data.
"The computers that contained our student data were missing. Others were all left untouched," he said.
http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=2008010206495223
UK: Stores accused over CCTV records
Wednesday, January 02 2008 @ 06:49 AM EST Contributed by: PrivacyNews News Section: Non-U.S. News
Thousands of innocent people could be unwittingly branded as “thieves and drug addicts” by shops.
Detailed files on customers, which include pictures taken from CCTV footage, are being held by some supermarkets purely on the basis that a person may be acting suspiciously, [Somewhat subjective? Bob] regardless of whether they have been caught committing a crime.
Source - EDP24
[From the article:
One victim, schoolboy Steven Hawkes, 13, found out he was on file at Tesco in Dereham, after several employees of the store told him and his family he had been blacklisted.
... “When I went to the store and tried to find out what was going on they said they only kept files on 'shoplifters and drug addicts' so I had to ask which one they thought my son was in. Eventually they admitted he hadn't done anything but looked suspicious.
At last, some push-back?
We have everything to fear from ID cards
By Andrew O'Hagan Last Updated: 12:01am GMT 01/01/2008
We start the year in Britain with a challenge to our essential nature, for 2008 might turn out to be the year when we decide to rip up the Magna Carta.
Among the basic civil rights in this country, there has always been, at least in theory, an inclination towards liberal democracy, which includes a tolerance of an individual's right to privacy.
... Britain is already the most self-watching country in the world, with the largest network of security cameras; a new study suggests we are now every bit as poor at protecting privacy as Russia, China and America.
But surveillance cameras and lost data will prove minuscule problems next to ID cards, which will obliterate the fundamental right to walk around in society as an unknown.
Related... Will inability to read your license be probable cause for a traffic stop?
http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20080101192101421
Goverment Making It Easier To Steal Your Identity
Tuesday, January 01 2008 @ 07:21 PM EST Contributed by: PrivacyNews News Section: REAL ID
Electronic monitoring of motorists will soon expand dramatically as states including Arizona, Michigan, Vermont and Washington as they begin to use radio frequency identification (RFID) chips in drivers' licenses. These electronic chips broadcast the identity of any card holder to any chip-reading sensor within a minimum of thirty feet. The US Department of Homeland Security is promoting the tracking projects as part of its Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative.
Source - Gather
Perhaps you should convert those 5.25 floppies? (Comments are convinced this is just another way Microsoft is forcing users to buy an upgrade...)
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/01/137257&from=rss
Office 2003 Service Pack Disables Older File Formats
Posted by Zonk on Wednesday January 02, @12:29AM from the always-so-helpful dept. Microsoft Software IT
time961 writes "In Service Pack 3 for Office 2003, Microsoft disabled support for many older file formats. If you have old Word, Excel, 1-2-3, Quattro, or Corel Draw documents, watch out! They did this because the old formats are 'less secure', which actually makes some sense, but only if you got the files from some untrustworthy source. Naturally, they did this by default, and then documented a mind-bogglingly complex workaround (KB 938810) rather than providing a user interface for adjusting it, or even a set of awkward 'Do you really want to do this?' dialog boxes to click through. And of course because these are, after all, old file formats ... many users will encounter the problem only months or years after the software change, while groping around in dusty and now-inaccessible archives."
Good news / bad news? Perhaps I could index Centennial-Man and publish it as a work of fiction?
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BUSINESS_OF_LIFE?SITE=VALYD&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
Got a Manuscript? Publishing Now a Snap
By CANDICE CHOI Associated Press Writer Jan 2, 8:29 AM EST
NEW YORK (AP) -- Getting a book published isn't the rarefied literary feat it once was.
... On-demand publisher Lulu.com has churned out 236,000 paperbacks since it opened in 2002, and its volume of new paperbacks has risen each month this year, hitting 14,745 in November. Retail giant Amazon.com got into the game this summer, offering on-demand publishing through its CreateSpace, which was already letting filmmakers and musicians burn DVDs and CDs.
... Unlike vanity publishing, in which aspiring authors pay to have their books run on traditional presses, on-demand publishing doesn't have to cost writers a cent.
... The system also allows small businesses to print high-end brochures, screenwriters to shop their scripts around and others to assemble wedding and other special-event books for friends and family.
On the Net:
I can't say I see the importance of some of these, but then, that's why I read these lists....
Ten things that will change your future
January 1, 2008
So Google and Wikipedia took you by surprise? Nick Galvin looks into his crystal ball and explains what you need to know to survive the next decade.
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