NYTimes Weighs in on P2P Copyright Battle
Grokster and the Information Exchange
Open Source Software Under Development for University Financials
2 Universities Team Up to Create Free, Open-Source Financial Software for Campuses
Spammers Hijack DoD and Senate Computers
Hackers hijack federal computers
High Profile Group of Scientists Support Free Access to Gov’t Funded Scientific Research
Scientists want research papers freely available The PDF text of the Open Letter to the U.S. Congress Signed by by 25 Nobel Prize Winners
IRS IT Modernization Program Subject of Treasury OIG Audit
The Audit Trail System for Detecting Improper Activities on Modernized Systems Is Not Functioning (link to HTML version). From Federal Computer Week: “A software problem prevents users from querying the system that tracks when IRS financial data is accessed.”
Check That Quote!
From Blogoscoped, this Quote Finder “checks possible sources or quotations for every sentence of a text using Google.”
Will Your “Personal Health Record” Be Online Within 10 Years?
Medical Records May Go Online – “Health industry, tech firms, government agencies might collaborate to build a secure database of patient records.” [link via D. Cavallini] Related references and resources are as follows: Office of the National Health Information Technology Coordinator (ONCHIT), created by Executive Order 13335, signed April 27, 2004. Your Medical History on …
Government Secrecy and National Security
From the Washington Post (reg. req’d), Secret Court Poses Challenges – Non-Government Litigants Lack Access, Ways to Influence Cases and Too Much Secrecy, as well as this report, Secrecy and National Security by Bruce Berkowitz, Hoover Digest, Summer 2004. [links via Secrecy News] Related references: Statement of Ms. Carol A. Haave (Deputy Undersecretary of Defense) …
Judge Posner’s Commentary on the 9/11 Commission Report
From the Sunday, August 29 New York Times Book Review section, The 9/11 Report: A Dissent, by Richard A. Posner. Related references: The 9/11 Commission Report and 9/11 Commission Releases Two Staff Reports. A Joint Committee on Intelligence: Proposals and Options from the 9/11 Commission and Others, updated August 25, 2004. (22 pages, PDF)
Homeland Security RFP on Data Mining
Data Mining and Analysis Tools Used to Support the Information needs of the Homeland Security and First Responder Community [via EFF Deep Links]
EU May Create Corporate E-Filing System
From the Compliance Reporter: “The European Commission will consider creating a pan-European electronic filing system similar to EDGAR, the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval filing system used in the U.S., according to an industry official familiar with the Commission’s plans.”
Plan for Woodrow Wilson Library to Open in 2006
Plans Unveiled for Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library