I don’t really know how to classify this story, but it just had to be shared: From nbc4.com: An elderly passenger was stopped at Reagan Washington National Airport Tuesday after security screeners found a sword hidden in his cane. The sword is 20 inches long.” Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: October 2003
Prosecutors Request That Computer Fraud Conviction Be Reversed
Bret McDanel, a former employee of Tornado Development, Inc., served a 16 month sentence for violating the Computer Fraud & Abuse Act. After leaving Tornado, a provider of Unified Messaging (UM) solutions, he sent an email to thousands of the company’s customers detailing a corporate email security flaw. End of story? Apparently not, as today… Continue Reading
Best City, County and State Websites
The Center for Digital Government announced that from 216 jurisdictions considered, the state of Utah, Montgomery County, Maryland and Washington, D.C. represented the best examples of e-gov portal services. Also included in this announcement are links to other Best of the Web winners in various categories. Continue Reading
Advocacy Groups Request Tighter Controls on Bank Security Notices
From EPIC.org: “In comments to the Department of the Treasury, EPIC and the U.S. Public Interest Research Group urged the agency to strengthen a proposed guidance on security notices to bank customers. The proposed guidelines specify when a financial institution must give notice to a customer when their personal information has been accessed without authorization.” Continue Reading
Marketing Associations Issue E-Mail Guidelines
From the press release: “Based on direct input from members, the American Association of Advertising Agencies (AAAA), the Association of National Advertisers (ANA), and the Direct Marketing Association (The DMA) today released a set of nine guidelines that call on marketers to institute certain practices that will defend and enhance the viability of legitimate e-mail… Continue Reading
New Consumer Product Recall Website
Nolo and Justia have launched a new free recall and warnings site, which focuses on products, food, drug and car recall data. The site is arranged so users may view data by category (currently there are 11), review government notices on recent recalls, or choose to read one of a half dozen featured recall notices… Continue Reading
Supreme Court Will Review Child Online Protection Act
Today the Supreme Court agreed to review, again, the appeal of the Child Online Protection Act. Links to resources on the Act, as well as related resources, are available in my August 13 posting, DOJ Appeals COPA Decision to Supreme Court. Continue Reading
Print Publishers Still Unsure of Internet
A recent GartnerG2 survey: Print Publishers Are Uncertain About Their Digital Future [Link] Continue Reading
Survey of Intranet Design Winners
Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox, October 2003, Ten Best Intranets of 2003: 175-page Intranet Design Annual with 97 screenshots of the ten winners is available for download, pdf, $98. [Link] The ten winning intranets are: Amadeus Global Travel Distribution, Spain; ChevronTexaco; Design Matters, Inc., a Web design agency; FIGG Engineering Group, a consultancy specializing in bridges, Fujitsu… Continue Reading
Wired District Courts
AP published a list of the 26 (of the 94) district courts that currently provide electronic filing and case management. Continue Reading
Initiative Works Towards Open Internet Policies
Weblog of the Global Internet Policy Initiative (GIPI): “The Global Internet Policy Initiative supports adoption in developing countries of the legal and policy framework for an open and democratic Internet. The project works with local stakeholders in consultative, coalition-based efforts to promote the principles of a decentralized, accessible, user-controlled, and market-driven Internet. [thanks to Robert… Continue Reading
New Scientific Journal at Vanguard of Free Access Publishing Movement
The premier issue of the first free journal from the Public Library of Science, PLoS Biology, is now available online, although traffic to the site since the announcement has resulted in intermittent access. From the editorial statement: “PLoS Biology, and every PLoS journal to follow, will be an open-access publicationeverything we publish will immediately be… Continue Reading
