Note that they were able to determine how many times the file had been downloaded. Shouldn't everyone be able to do that?
http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=2008120708593549
World Bank voluntarily discloses data breach to state attorney general
Sunday, December 07 2008 @ 08:59 AM EST Contributed by: PrivacyNews
On December 2, the World Bank wrote to the Maryland Attorney General's Office, "Although the World Bank (Bank) is not subject to national law requirements, in the spirit of cooperation with the US authorities, we are voluntarily providing the following information as prescribed by the State of Maryland."
According to the notification, on November 21, the Bank discovered that a file had mistakenly been made available on a public site and had been downloaded once. The file contained payment records to Bank employees and contractors and consisted of their names, addresses, names of their banks, and bank account numbers.
In its notification letter to 493 Maryland residents affected by the breach, the Bank squarely identifies human error by Bank staff as the cause of the breach, and explains that the majority of accounts are with Bank-Fund Staff Federal Credit Union, who have been made aware of the situation and who have implemented extra precautions to monitor account activity for affected individuals.
The Bank also arranged for two years' free services with Experian's Triple Advantage Premium credit monitoring program.
Comment: kudos to the World Bank for its voluntary disclosure to the state(s). -- Dissent
Probably could have been written in or about any country.
http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20081207100924522
21 million German bank account details on black market: report
Sunday, December 07 2008 @ 10:09 AM EST Contributed by: PrivacyNews
The details of bank accounts held by 21 million Germans are for sale on the black market for 12 million euros (15 million dollars), a German magazine reported Saturday.
In an investigative report, two reporters for the Wirtschaftswoche magazine met last month with two individuals, arranged through an intermediary, who offered to sell a CD-ROM containing the names, addresses, bank name and account numbers of 21 million people, the magazine said.
Source - Breitbart.com
Forensics (And more justification for the state to demand absolute identification before you can communicate with anyone.)
http://news.slashdot.org/news/08/12/07/1428216.shtml
Cell Phone SIM Cards Lead To Terrorists' Trail
Posted by Soulskill on Sunday December 07, @10:29AM
from the ease-of-communication dept.
Cellphones Security News
Cliff Stoll writes
"The Times of India reports that cell phone SIM cards used by the terrorists in Mumbai were purchased in Kolkata (Calcutta), using fraudulent papers. The papers belonged to the dead uncle of a 26-year-old man living in Kolkata; he is suspected of being a collaborator of the terrorists. The paper states that this highlights 'the continued vulnerabilities in the system which have repeatedly been exploited by the terrorists and their collaborators to obtain cell phone connections. "We've booked them for cheating and forgery as they produced fake documents to get the SIMs. We've also slapped conspiracy charges against them for they had an ulterior motive. The arrests will throw light on the Mumbai terror module," Kolkata police's Jawed Shamim said.'"
Pre-shrinking your search? Might be useful if you don't know your subject well enough to create an advanced search.
http://www.killerstartups.com/Search/soovle-com-conducting-searches-the-other-way-around
Soovle.com - Conducting Searches The Other Way Around
When you are looking for something on the WWW and you have a clear representation of what it is, you can find it in a matter of seconds via any of the countless search tools available. And now, if you have absolutely no idea about what you would like to find there is a search engine that will sort you out.
This particular search tool goes by the name of Soovle, and its implementation is as follows. In principle, you start keying in a term and a few characters into the process different lists of terms that might have something to do with the concept crop up. These lists give out Google, Yahoo, Amazon and Wikipedia recommendations that you can click upon straight away in order to see the information unfold.
Some options for accommodating the search process to your needs include the ability to specify that one of the above mentioned engines be the default one, as well as enabling you to save the suggestions that were produced for ulterior reference.
At the end of the day, I think it is always nice to have as many options as possible when it comes to looking up information on the WWW. As such, any new solution that comes along is always welcome.
I was going to write about this earlier...
Academics invent a mathematical equation for why people procrastinate
It might seem an idle pastime but academics have come up with a mathematical equation for why people procrastinate.
By Urmee Khan Last Updated: 9:15AM GMT 08 Dec 2008
... Chronic procastinators, who make up 20 per cent of the population, are more impulsive and erratic than other people and less conscientious about attention to detail and obligations to others, he says in his forthcoming book, The Procrastination Equation: Today's Trouble with Tomorrow.
... The equation is U=EV/ID.
The 'U' stands for utility, or the desire to complete a given task. It is equal to the product of E, the expectation of success, and V the value of completion, divided by the product of I, the immediacy of the task, and D, the personal sensitivity to delay.
For those taking Con-Law?
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/020001.html#20001
December 07, 2008
Constitution of the U.S. 2008 Supplement
Constitution of the U.S. 2008 Supplement: Cases Decided to June 26, 2008. Senate Document No. 110-17. NOTE: Certain documents from the 2002 Edition have been supplemented in the 2008 Supplement.
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