Recap
http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=2007073006530625
Data “Dysprotection:” breaches reported last week
Monday, July 30 2007 @ 06:53 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 - Chronicles of Dissent
Want to publish a book on any topic? Here's the new model. (To download the book, click the link.)
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/015587.html
July 30, 2007
TechnoLawyer BlawgWorld 2007
TechnoLawyer BlawgWorld 2007: "BlawgWorld 2007 is the best way to explore and discover legal blogs (blawgs). It features 77 remarkable essays from 77 of the most influential blawgs. Each blogger handpicked their best essay of the year for inclusion in the eBook. The 2007 TechnoLawyer Problem/Solution Guide is a revolutionary new way to find Solutions to Problems your law firm is experiencing. Specifically, it contains 185 Problems and corresponding Solutions. Each Problem is written in the form of a question from the point of view of a law firm and organized by topic. Topics include case management, depositions, discovery, document management, legal research, time-billing, and many more — 58 topics in all." (366 pages, PDF)
Something for everybody
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/015583.html
July 30, 2007
New on LLRX.com for July 2007
Documents, Leaks and the Boundaries of Expression, by Susan Nevelow Mart
Librarians as Change Agents, by Mary Alice Baish
Scanning and OCR with Acrobat 8, by Rick Borstein
Guide to Short Form Open Access Legal Publications, by Ken Strutin
Elder Resources on the Internet, by Marcus P. Zillman
Gay/Lesbian Law Pathfinder, by Mark Plotkin
The Government Domain: 'Insanely Useful' Legislative Sites, by Peggy Garvin
Reference from Coast to Coast: Jury Instructions Update, by Margi Heinen and Jan Bissett
Burney's Legal Tech Reviews: Gadgets for Legal Pros A Keyboard to Show Off to your Friends and Safely Jogging with Music, by Brett Burney
FOIA Facts: Understanding FBI Records, by Scott A. Hodes
E-Discovery Update - Discovery of Ephemeral Digital Information, by Conrad J. Jacoby
Commentary: The Showdown on Coal-to-Liquid Technology, by Beth Wellington
Most interesting conversation. Who would expect humor from TSA?
http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20070731072049617
onversation with Kip Hawley, TSA Administrator (Part 2)
Tuesday, July 31 2007 @ 07:20 AM CDT Contributed by: PrivacyNews News Section: Fed. Govt.
.... Backscatter X-ray is another technology that is causing privacy concerns, since it basically allows you to see people naked. Can you explain the benefits of the technology, and what you are doing to protect privacy? Although the machines can distort the images, we know that they can store raw, unfiltered images; the manufacturer Rapiscan is quite proud of the fact. Are the machines you're using routinely storing images? Can they store images at the screener's discretion, or is that capability turned off at installation?
Source - Schneier on Security
Earlier - Part 1
e-Discovery: Of course it can be hacked. The point is to have procedures which will prevent or detect any hacking – just like any other security.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/07/25/Forensics-software-can-be-hacked_1.html?SECURITY
Researchers: Forensics software can be hacked
Bugs in EnCase and The Sleuth Kit can be used to crash the programs or install unauthorized software on investigators' machines
By Robert McMillan, IDG News Service July 25, 2007
The software that police and enterprise security teams use to investigate wrongdoing on computers is not as secure as it should be, according to researchers with Isec Partners.
... Researchers have been hacking forensics tools for years, but have traditionally focused on techniques that intruders could use to cover their tracks and thwart forensic investigations. The Isec team has taken a different tack, however, creating hacking tools that can be used to pound the software with data, looking for flaws.
... Because forensic systems are typically not connected to external networks, they cannot be remotely controlled via the Internet, he said. So even if an attacker could use these techniques to compromise one forensic snapshot of a system, a second forensic tool would provide the real picture. [Redundancy Bob] "It's just not that big of a threat because I know a lot of other mitigating steps to take," he said. "A well-trained person does not use a single tool."
... However, there is one group that may pay special attention to the Stamos team: defense lawyers. If Isec shows that unauthorized software could have been run on an investigator's PC, it could ultimately undermine the usefulness of these forensic tools in court, said Chris Ridder, residential fellow at the Stanford University Law School Center for Internet and Society
"The big risk is for someone to execute arbitrary code," he said "If there's a risk that the evidence has been compromised or if something has been planted by a third party... then you can call into question the accuracy of the software and possibly get it thrown out."
Butterworth, who has been grilled many times by defense lawyers, agreed. "I wouldn't put anything past a defense attorney ," he said.
Disrupting the traditional business model? May be worth watching this one...
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/31/010205&from=rss
Small Electric Car May Usher In Big Changes
Posted by kdawson on Tuesday July 31, @05:04AM from the clean-and-green dept.
An anonymous reader sends us to a profile in CNNMoney.com on a Norwegian car company that is building a compact, plug-in electric car, the Think City, that will go on sale in Europe early next year. It could hit US markets in 2009. The CEO is working with Silicon Valley VCs and with Google, Tesla Motors, PG&E, and Dean Kamen, inventor of the Segway. Plans are to sell the car only on the Web. No dealers, cheap manufacturing plants, and a battery pack that you lease, not buy — there's potential here for shaking up the auto industry the way Dell did PCs.
This reads like an ad, but I suspect the gist of it is true.
http://www.articlevista.com/Article/Traditional-Lawyers-Bypassed-for-Online-Legal-Services/67895
Traditional Lawyers Bypassed For Online Legal Services
- By: Kennard McGill Published in category Society on 2007-07-30
Consumers looking for legal help for common legal matters can find legal documents online to help resolve legal issues without hiring a traditional attorney.
... There are a number of legal document forms that range from Incorporations, forming an LLC, Last Will & Testament, Online Divorce, Prenuptial Agreements, Copyrights and Immigration Services.
... To learn more about Legal Forms Online for common legal matters visit http://www.legaldocumentfinder.com
Today Dilbert creates the ultimate software product
http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/archive/images/dilbert2052375070731.gif
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