What has to happen before people get the word? It also seems that no one wants to find anything criminal in this.
http://www.journal-advocate.com/articles/2007/04/27/news/local_news/local1.txt
Dr. admits dumping medical files
By AJ Vicens Journal-Advocate Staff Writer Friday, April 27, 2007 2:51 PM MDT
STERLING — In 1998, June Davis, of Boulder, visited an area chiropractor for some routine work. She only saw him a few times, and said she probably couldn’t even remember his name any more.
Those few chiropractic visits came back to give Davis “goose bumps” nine years later when she found out that the complete record of her consultations with that chiropractor was one of hundreds thrown in a Dumpster near a Sterling 7-Eleven full of her private medical and personal identification information.
... The hundreds of medical records found in a Dumpster behind the 7-Eleven came from Healing Hands Chiropractic on West Third Avenue and, for now, there are no plans for criminal charges associated with the way the records were disposed of, according to the Sterling Police Department.
Sterling Sgt. Tyson Kerr said an investigation revealed that the records were dumped by Dr. John Sommers, who runs Healing Hands Chiropractic, “due to lack of office space.”
Sommers said in an interview Tuesday he did put the records — complete with patients’ social security numbers, birth dates, addresses and, in some cases, credit card information — in the Dumpster because all of his client’s records are electronic and he didn’t have space in the office for the old paper records that came with the purchase of the business.
“You’re not supposed to do what I did,” Sommers said. “That’s for sure. I was trying to get away with dumping it in the Dumpster, and figured it would end up at a trash dump the next day and nobody could get it.”
What would an imminent civil war/genocide/angry mob/Russian invasion look like online? (f-secure points to many sites...)
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/#00001181
Saturday, April 28, 2007
Unrest in Estonia
Posted by Mikko @ 13:51 GMT
For the past days, there's been unrest and rioting in Estonia.
Quoting CNN: "Police arrested 600 people and 96 were injured in a second night of clashes in Estonia's capital over the removal of a disputed World War Two Red Army monument ... Russia has reacted furiously to the moving of the monument ... Estonia has said the monument had become a public order menace as a focus for Estonian and Russian nationalists."
We're now seeing large attacks against websites run by Estonian goverment. Some of the sites are unreachable. Others are up, but do not allow any traffic from foreign IP addresses.
What would happen if you had thousands of computer experts on your legal team? Is this a strategy that could/should be used more broadly?
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/28/202206&from=rss
RIAA Security Expert's Quest For Reliability
Posted by Zonk on Saturday April 28, @06:46PM from the is-he-who-he-says-he-is dept.
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "In the ongoing case of UMG v. Lindor, Ms. Lindor has now moved to exclude the trial testimony of the RIAA's 'expert' witness, Dr. Doug Jacobson. Jacobson is the CTO and co-founder of Palisade Systems, Inc, and a teacher of internet security at Iowa State, but in his February 23rd deposition testimony she argues he failed to meet the reliability standards prescribed by Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Federal Rule of Evidence 702. The Groklaw and Slashdot communities participated in both the preparation of the deposition questions, and the vetting of the witness's responses."
Strategically, one should try for every possible advantage.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/27/1439245&from=rss
RIAA Secretly Tries to Get ISP Subscriber Info
Posted by Zonk on Friday April 27, @11:53AM from the always-with-the-plotting-and-planning-are-they dept. Privacy The Courts
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "In an attempt to change the rules of the game, the RIAA secretly went to a federal district court in Denver with an ex parte application. The goal was to get the judge to rule that the federal Cable Communications Policy Act does not apply to the RIAA's attempts to get subscriber information (pdf) from cable companies. Just to clarify, ex parte means that the application was secret, no one else — neither the ISP nor the subscribers — were given notice that this was going on. They were, in effect, asking the Court to rule that the RIAA does not need to get a court order to be able to force an ISP to disclose confidential subscriber information. The Magistrate Judge declined to rule on the issue (pdf), but did give them the ex parte discovery order they were looking for."
What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas. What happens online gets distributed world-wide forever... Raises interesting questions, doesn't it?
Apr 28, 5:45 PM EDT
School Sued Over MySpace Photo Response
MILLERSVILLE, Pa. (AP) -- A woman denied a teaching degree on the eve of graduation because of a MySpace photo has sued the university.
Millersville University instead granted Stacy Snyder a degree in English last year after learning of her Web-published picture, which bore the caption "Drunken Pirate."
"I dreamed about being a teacher for a long time," said Snyder, 27, who now works as a nanny.
The photo, taken at a 2005 Halloween party, shows Snyder wearing a pirate hat while drinking from a plastic "Mr. Goodbar" cup. It was posted on her own MySpace site.
Although Snyder apologized, she learned the day before graduation that she would not be awarded an education degree or teaching certificate.
Jane S. Bray, dean of the School of Education, accused Snyder of promoting underage drinking, the suit states.
The federal lawsuit seeks at least $75,000 in damages. Millersville spokeswoman Janet Kacskos referred questions to a state System of Higher Education spokesman, who declined comment.
Always informative
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/04/schneier_talk_a.html
April 28, 2007
Schneier Talk at the British Computer Society
The MP3 of my March 21 talk at the British Computer Society -- on information security trends and economic considerations -- is on the Internet.
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