802.11 Wireless Security Primer
802.11 Wireless Security Primer – Presentation by John MacMichael (84 pages, PDF)
BusinessWeek Takes on Corporate Blogging
BusinessWeekOnline embraces blogs in a big way – Blogs Will Change Your Business Look past the yakkers, hobbyists, and political mobs. Your customers and rivals are figuring blogs out. Our advice: Catch up…or catch you later and the new BusinessWeek blog: Blogspotting, Where the worlds of business, media and blogs collide
JFK’s Position on Separation of Church and State
From the New York Times, September 13, 1960 (via the Dept. of State website as noted by BuzzFlash), the text of candidate John F. Kennedy’s Address to Southern Baptist Leaders (1960).
FTC Seeks Comments on COPPA
Press release: FTC Seeks Comment on Children’s Online Privacy Rule – “The Federal Trade Commission is seeking public comment on its implementation of the Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) through the Childrens Online Privacy Protection Rule. The FTC also is seeking additional comment on the COPPA Rules sliding scale approach to obtaining parental consent, …
Future of Free Access to Net Weather Data In Jeopardy From Proposed Legislation
Press release, April 14, 2005: U.S. Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA), Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, today introduced the National Weather Services Duties Act of 2005 (S. 786) to clarify the duties and responsibilities of the National Weather Service (NWS) within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). from the text of the bill: …The …
Google’s New “My Search History” Worries Privacy Advocates
Google Personal-Search Tracker Raises Privacy Concerns My Search History (Beta) My Search History (Beta) Help Search and My History Shall Find (InternetNews.com)
Justice Kennedy Is In Good Company With Millions of Americans Using Internet For Research Daily
John Horrigan, Director of Research at the Internet and American Life Project, posted a comment worth noting, in response to the fracas about Rep. DeLay’s statements about Justice Kennedy. Mr. Horrigan stated: “If Justice Kennedy does indeed go online to conduct research for his job, he has lots of company. On a typical day, 20% …
Review of ID Theft Resolution Services
From the free content section of the April 21 WSJ, A Cottage Industry Blooms To Help Victims of ID Theft examines the costs and range of services offered by companies who market assistance to victims of online or offline ID theft. In addition, potential red flags about, and the limitations to, these services are noted.
Senate Intelligence Cmte. Hearing on PATRIOT Act
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Hearing on the USA PATRIOT Act, April 19, 2005. Links to testimony.
Vendor of Background Check Data Now Notifies Targets of Probe
According to Wired, the instant criminal background check database owned by ChoicePoint called Rapsheets is now in compliance with Fair Credit Reporting Act requirements to provide individuals with notification regarding the review of their data by prospective employers.
NY AG Proposes Range of Legislative Initiatives to Protect Consumers Against ID Theft
Press release, April 1, 2005: Spitzer Calls for Regulation of Information Brokers and Increased Penalties for Computer Hacking. Note – links to the text of the proposed legislation, in PDF, are available via this press release, and highlights include the following: Providing identity theft victims better control over their personal identifying information, including: allowing for …
DHS IT Infrastructure Requires Significant Improvement According to GAO
Homeland Security: Overview of Department of Homeland Security Management Challenges, GAO-05-573T, April 20, 2005. Highlights. “..DHS’s transformation remains a high-risk area. DHS faces a number of management challenges to improve its ability to carry out its homeland security missions. Among these challenges are providing focus for management efforts; monitoring transformation and integration; improving strategic planning; …