According to this Washington Post article, the nation’s largest ISPs are responding to the recent escalation of email viruses (Blaster and SoBig.F) innundating customer accounts by planning to implement scanning applications to screen all attached documents. With as many as half of all incoming emails infected with viruses, AOL, Comcast, Microsoft, and Covad have already begun scanning, while EarthLink and BellSouth have indicated they plan to do so this fall. The process is costly, on both the IT side as well as in terms of additional customer support requirements.
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Monthly Archives: August 2003
Firm Addresses Privacy Issues Associated With Radio Frequency Tags
More news about radio frequency id tags, as RSA Security has published a detailed and informative white paper on the technology, which unbeknownst to many, is already ubiquitous in many aspects of our daily life, an example of which is the tags used by drivers on their car windshields which automatically scan and log toll… Continue Reading
Public Access to Essential Gov’t Docs
From the GPO: Essential Titles for Public Use in Paper Format: The list comprises 48 titles, along with associated web links as available. “The dissemination of information products through the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) includes a variety of formats. As directed by Congress, the primary method of making publications available to the FDLP is… Continue Reading
NY Port Authority Releases Transcripts of 9/11 Calls
From the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, this news on the release of “nearly 2,000 pages of transcripts of emergency calls made on September 11, 2001, to Port Authority police command from civilians and officers…under an order by Bergen County, N.J., Superior Court…Judge Sylvia R. Moses…The Times (New York Times) had told the… Continue Reading
Groups Send Letter to Ridge Concerning Freedom of Info and Homeland Security Act
From ALA, a pdf version of a three page letter sent to Dept. of Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, on August 27, concerning limitations on the public dissemination of “homeland security information” determined to be “sensitive but unclassified.” ALA was one of 75 organizations that signed the letter (including journalists, evironmental groups, scientists and privacy… Continue Reading
Grant for Legal Research Centers for the Public in WV
Catching up on some news from earlier this month, a press release from the Supreme Court of Appeals, State of West Virginia, dated August 8 announced: The West Virginia Supreme Court and the West Virginia Library Commission are working together to “establish legal research centers in three urban public libraries, three rural public libraries and… Continue Reading
Rain, Hail, Fallen Trees, and Power Outages
Sorry to say all of the above have been the gremlins in my machine the past couple of days. If you would like to read beSpacific postings for August 26 and 27, I invite you to visit the site. Continue Reading
GAO Report on Failures In Homeland Security Info Sharing
Homeland Security: Efforts to Improve Information Sharing Need to Be Strengthened. GAO-03-760, August 27. Highlights. From ComputerWorld: “The Department of Homeland Security hasn’t effectively coordinated the multitude of information-sharing efforts now under way throughout the nation, creating a situation where critical clues to impending terrorist attacks may once again go unnoticed.” Continue Reading
Telemarketers Get Access to Do Not Call Registry September 2
This FTC press release from August 27 includes information, associated fees and links for use by telemarketers to obtain data from the national do not call registry when it is released on September 2. Continue Reading
Lawyer’s Cmte. Rebuts Statements by AG on Patriot Act
The Lawyer’s Committee for Human Rights issued a media alert that responds to specific statements in support of the Patriot Act made by Attorney General Ashcroft in a speech he delivered at the American Enterprise Institute on August 19. Continue Reading
LC to Acquire Significant 9/11 Archive
The Library of Congress announced the official acquisition, on September 10, 2003, of a collection comprising over 130,000 “written accounts, e-mails, audio recordings, video clips, photographs, websites, and other materials that document the attacks on New York City, Washington D.C., and western Pennsylvania and their aftermath.” On that day, LC will also host a symposium,… Continue Reading
New Study on Regional Internet Use
The Pew Internet Project released a new report on August 27, Internet Use by Region in the United States. A link to the table of contents of the report is available here, or you may download the report in its entirety here. From the summary: Internet usage among adult Americans reached 59% at the end… Continue Reading
