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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Daily Archives: August 29, 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
