http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20081201052240313
Data “Dysprotection:” breaches reported last week
Monday, December 01 2008 @ 05:22 AM EST Contributed by: PrivacyNews
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
UK Government begins to grasp the obvious! “Ya know, them Security guys might have something after all!”
http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=2008120105191928
UK: System design can beat data breaches
Monday, December 01 2008 @ 05:24 AM EST Contributed by: PrivacyNews
The government has come clean about how it will avoid future security breaches similar to the HMRC's loss of 25 million people's details.
Brian Collins, chief scientific adviser to the Department for Transport and the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform described how monitoring technologies would protect the public's data.
Speaking at the A Fine Balance privacy conference Collins described future government computer systems that could ask users if they were sure they wanted to transfer sensitive or large amounts of data, and systems that would also warn users that the transfers would be logged and immediately flagged up with their superiors.
Source - Silicon.com
You ask what clues make me think they will get it wrong?
http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20081201051559175
Facebook Aims to Extend Its Reach Across the Web
Monday, December 01 2008 @ 05:15 AM EST Contributed by: PrivacyNews
Facebook, the Internet’s largest social network, wants to let you take your friends with you as you travel the Web. But having been burned by privacy concerns in the last year, it plans to keep close tabs on those outings. [Keeping NO tabs would be more in keeping with a Privacy friendly service... Bob]
Facebook Connect, as the company’s new feature is called, allows its members to log onto other Web sites using their Facebook identification and see their friends’ activities on those sites. Like Beacon, the controversial advertising program that Facebook introduced and then withdrew last year after it raised a hullabaloo over privacy, Connect also gives members the opportunity to broadcast their actions on those sites to their friends on Facebook. [Why design this like a failed service? Bob]
Source - NY Times
This is a very interesting article, but quite confusing to a non-lawyer like me. It seems to be suggesting that most lawyers (and judges) are making huge mistakes with digital evidence. Can someone tell me I'm wrong?
The Ninth Step: Review of George Paul’s New Book “Foundations of Digital Evidence”
... George Paul’s new book, Foundations of Digital Evidence (ABA 2008), makes a valuable contribution to U.S. jurisprudence.
The essence of Paul’s book is that the old paper-based rules of evidence are inadequate to deal with today’s world of digital information.
... George Paul’s book is a gold mine of ideas for trial lawyers who may need to support or attack the probabitve value of electronic evidence at trial. Young trial lawyers especially should read this book to try to understand the emerging impact of electronic information on rules of evidence.
Free downloadable books are even better!
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/30/2236247&from=rss
James Boyle's New Book Under CC License
Posted by kdawson on Sunday November 30, @11:27PM from the far-from-the-common dept. Books
An anonymous reader writes
"James Boyle has released his new book, The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Prses) under a Creative Commons License. It can be downloaded free or read online. There are chapters on Thomas Jefferson's views of IP, musical borrowing and the birth of soul, free software, and synthetic biology. Lessig is impressed. Doctorow says he is a law prof who writes like a comedian (is this a good thing?), and credits Boyle's first book for getting him involved in online rights."
When the accepted wisdom dies, markets must be redefined. What comes after Gates?
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/01/0317244&from=rss
The Myth of Upgrade Inevitability Is Dead
Posted by kdawson on Monday December 01, @05:14AM from the standing-pat dept.
Several readers pointed out a ComputerWorld UK blog piece on the expanding ripples of the Vista fiasco. Glyn Moody quotes an earlier Inquirer piece about Vista, which he notes "has been memorably described as DRM masquerading as an operating system":
"Studies carried out by both Gartner and IDC have found that because older software is often incompatible with Vista, many consumers are opting for used computers with XP installed as a default, rather than buying an expensive new PC with Vista and downgrading. Big business, which typically thinks nothing about splashing out for newer, more up-to-date PCs, is also having trouble with Vista, with even firms like Intel noting XP would remain the dominant OS within the company for the foreseeable future."
Moody continues: "What's really important about this is not so much that Vista is manifestly such a dog, but that the myth of upgrade inevitability has been destroyed. Companies have realized that they do have a choice — that they can simply say 'no.' From there, it's but a small step to realizing that they can also walk away from Windows completely, provided the alternatives offer sufficient data compatibility to make that move realistic."
Another technology to watch... Even if you're not a librarian.
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/019951.html
November 30, 2008
New on LLRX: Nanotechnology: What Is It and Why Do Law Librarians Need to Know About It?
Nanotechnology: What Is It and Why Do Law Librarians Need to Know About It? According to R. Scott Russell, future studies linking nanotechnology to a range of adverse issues could lead to litigation for law firm clients. How to learn about nanotechnology, and reliable law and technology sources for research on this and related topics, are highlighted.
For my Statistics Students
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/30/219241&from=rss
Florence Nightengale, Statistical Graphics Pioneer
Posted by kdawson on Sunday November 30, @09:02PM from the graphical-display-of-quantitative-information dept.
Science News has a fascinating look at an under-appreciated corner of the career of Florence Nightengale — as an innovator in the use of statistical graphics to argue for social change. Nightengale returned from the Crimean War a heroine in the eyes of the British citizenry, for the soldiers' lives she had saved. But she came to appreciate that the way to save far more lives was to reform attitudes in the military about sanitation. Under the tutelage of William Farr, who had just invented the field of medical statistics, she compiled overwhelming evidence (in the form of an 830-page report) of the need for change.
"As impressive as her statistics were, Nightingale worried that Queen Victoria's eyes would glaze over as she scanned the tables. So Nightingale devised clever ways of presenting the information in charts. Statistics had been presented using graphics only a few times previously, and perhaps never to persuade people of the need for social change."
Because I often burn CDs for my students, I'm always looking for better tools.
http://digg.com/tech_news/Five_Best_CD_and_DVD_Burning_Tools
Five Best CD and DVD Burning Tools
lifehacker.com — The internet has made it easier than ever to share media and data with friends, family, and co-workers, but that doesn't mean burning your own CDs and DVDs is a thing of the past
http://lifehacker.com/5100069/five-best-cd-and-dvd-burning-tools
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