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Reports on monitoring of employee website usage are not uncommon, but today’s New York Times article highlights how blocking specific sites can impede work product. This can certainly be the case not only in the newsroom but in law firms and other corporate environments where competitive intelligence monitoring has become increasingly important.
News Division Program for the Special Libraries Association Annual Conference 2006, June 10 – 15, 2006 in Baltimore, Maryland. Links to selected presentations and handouts
Press release: “In The Dark Side, airing June 20, 2006, at 9 P.M. on PBS (check local listings), FRONTLINE tells the story of the vice president’s role as the chief architect of the war on terror and his battle with Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet for control of the “dark side.” Drawing on more …
Center for Medical Consumers: Dodgeball – The Pharmaceutical Companies’ Direct Marketing to Doctors and the Impact on Health Care Costs and Patient Safety, June 2006 (45 pages, PDF) LA Times (reg. req’d) – Liver Failures Linked to Antibiotic Ketek Renew Worries About FDA Drug Screening – “Four deaths have been tied to Ketek, approved in …
The Holocaust and War Victims Tracing Center [4800 Mt. Hope Drive, Baltimore, Maryland 21215, Phone: (410) 624-2090, Fax: (410) 764-7664]: “The Center will search the world over for information leading to the fates of loved ones missing since the Holocaust and World War II. Nearly every inquiry that is processed by the Center is forwarded …
Researchers Find Technique to Quickly Erase Hard Drives: “Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta), working with L-3 Communications Corp. (New York), said they have developed a technique for quickly erasing hard-disk drives…The researchers concluded that permanent magnets are the best solution.” [Slashdot]
Microsoft Security Response Center Blog
Following up on previous postings, Authority of Vast Collaborative Online Encyclopedia Questioned and Wikipedia Continues to Confront Controversy and Wikipedia Continues to Generate Headlines, related news today from the New York Times: Growing Wikipedia Revises Its ‘Anyone Can Edit’ Policy
http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=67378
AP: Pentagon Details U.S. Abuse of Detainees – Pentagon Says U.S. Forces Used Unapproved Interrogation Practices on Iraq, Afghan Detainees DOJ: Documents released in litigation on June 15, 2006 Formica Report Jacoby Report Schmidt-Furlow Report Enclosures Record of Courts Martial, (NOV 19, 2003) Record of Courts Martial, (JAN 7, 2003) Record of Courts Martial, (JAN …
News.com: “Cybercrooks are organizing better and moving to more sophisticated tactics to get their hands on confidential data and turn PCs of unwitting users into bots, representatives from the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations said in separate presentations here at the Computer Security Institute’s NetSec event this …
S. 3506 – A bill to prohibit the unauthorized removal or use of personal information contained in a database owned, operated, or maintained by the Federal government. Sponsor: Sen Akaka, Daniel K. [HI] (introduced 6/13/2006) S. 3514 – A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to restrict the public display on the Internet …
