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Information Security: Status of Federal Public Key Infrastructure Activities at Major Departments and Agencies. GAO-04-157, December 15. From the Highlights: “PKI implementation continues to pose major challenges for agencies…” “Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) is IT infrastructure that enables users of a basically unsecure public network (such as the Internet) to securely and privately exchange data …
Strauss’ Handbook of Business of Business Information: A Guide for Librarians, Students, and Researchers, by Rita W. Moss. Recommended by Marydee Ojala.
From Newsweek: “U.S. Homeland Security officials are coming under increasing political pressure to overhaul, if not eliminate, their color-coded terror alerts as concern mounts that the current system has become so dysfunctional that it may actually be increasing the country’s vulnerability to attack.” See also Lawmaker Wants Terror Alert System Refined
More news on problems with Diebold’s e-voting technology, this time in California, where an audit by the California Voter Foundation (CVF) ascertained that the company “had installed uncertified versions of software or firmware in all 17 counties it services” in the state.
In a January 14 letter to National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, Rep. Henry Waxman, Ranking Minority Member of the Committee on Government Reform requested “information regarding apparent inconsistencies in how the Administration handles allegations regarding the release of sensitive information.” References and context: Treasury Dept. Urges Probe Over O’Neill Paper in response to former Treasury …
From law.com: The Discovery Dance Data Collection Standards Can Your Old Files Come Back to Life? The Dilemma of Duplicates Raves for Two New EDD Books
Federal Computer Week reports that the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Center has yet to create a single, unified database comprising the dozen terror watch lists created by various government agencies, missing the December 1, 2003 deadline to complete the task. See also Terror Watch List Buried in Bureaucratic Mess, which states that according to Rep. Jim …
This afternoon, Judge James B. Zagel, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois (Chicago), refused to overturn a $521 million verdict against Microsoft, ruling in favor of Eolas Technologies Inc. in their web patent infringment dispute. The patent at issue is number 5,838,906, and is titled “Distributed hypermedia method for automatically invoking external application providing …
From AP, news about a recent New York State State Supreme Courts Appellate Division decision in response to a freedom of information request for access to the uncensored text of oral histories provided by members of the New York City Fire Department in respect to their experiences during, and responses to, 9/11.
According to an AP report, Ron Suskind, the author of the controversial new book, The Price of Loyalty, stated he plans to publish many of the documents provided to him by former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill, on the Web “in coming weeks.”
From Judith C. Russell, Superintendent of Documents, the text of her presentation from the American Library Association Midwinter Meeting, in which she addresses the following topics: The GPO Reorganization Fact Gathering and Planning for the Future of GPO and the FDLP A New Economic Model for the GPO Sales Program Managing Legacy Federal Documents Collections
“EPIC has filed comments (pdf) in response to the Department of Homeland Security’s announcement that it will collect biometric and biographic information in the Arrival Departure Information System (ADIS) [Note – the ADIS System is mandated by Public Law 106-396, the Visa Waiver Program Act.] ADIS is one of at least twenty existing information systems …