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1)
EFF reaches out to D.C. with new office
http://news.com.com/2102-1028_3-6065860.html?tag=st.util.print
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, the original digital rights
group, is venturing inside the Beltway once again.
EFF has hired two attorneys experienced in suing the federal
government under the Freedom of Information Act and plans to open an
office in downtown Washington, D.C., on Aug. 1.
"There area lot of meetings that we get invited to that we're not
able to attend" because the nonprofit has its headquarters in San
Francisco, said Shari Steele, EFF's executive director.
One of EFF's new hires is expected to be Marcia Hofmann, staff
counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, who has made
headlines for suing the U.S. Justice Department and Homeland Security
in an effort to document government wrongdoing and privacy invasions.
A lawsuit currently in progress attempts to force the Bush
administration to reveal documents about allegedly illegal
surveillance conducted by the National Security Agency.
The other new hire is expected to be David Sobel, EPIC's general
counsel and an FOIA litigator since 1982, who will work part-time.
Sobel declined to discuss the move but did say that "the first
Internet-related FOIA work I did was made possible by EFF"--a
reference to the Sun Devil case that involved a Secret Service raid
on Steve Jackson Games in 1990.
Opening an office inside the nation's capital comes as something of a
surprise because EFF suffered an internal schism when it was based
there in the early 1990s.
When the FBI was pressing for the Communications Assistance for Law
Enforcement Act (CALEA) in 1994, other privacy groups, such as the
American Civil Liberties Union and EPIC, remained steadfastly opposed
to the measure. CALEA requires telecommunications companies to design
their networks to be explicitly wiretap-friendly.

2)
Visa, Nokia start project in Malaysia to turn mobile phones into electronic wallets
http://news.findlaw.com/ap/o/51/04-27-2006/38d1000e50957339.html

3)
Sounding the alarm on government mandated data
retention
But now that we have the Justice Department proposing something far
broader -- and *actual legislation* afoot in the U.S. Congress, with
a floor vote perhaps next Wednesday -- nobody seems to be paying
attention.
I first wrote about the Justice Department shopping around this
proposal  nearly a year ago:
http://news.com.com/Your+ISP+as+Net+watchdog/2100-1028_3-5748649.html
And then wrote an update a few weeks ago:
http://news.com.com/ISP+snooping+gaining+support/2100-1028_3-6061187.html
And we've published two articles since then:
http://news.com.com/U.S.+attorney+general+calls+for+reasonable+data+retention/2100-1030_3-6063185.html
http://news.com.com/Congress+may+consider+mandatory+ISP+snooping/2100-1028_3-6066608.html
But doing a search for "data retention" coupled with "Gonzales" on
Google News turns up only four hits, three of them our News.com
articles and the fourth a blog entry that links to News.com.
Where's the other coverage and broader concern?

4)
Vol. 3, No. 1 of Webology, an OPEN ACCESS journal, is published and is
available ONLINE now. This issue contains:
Editorial: Link Spam and Search Engines
http://www.webology.ir/2006/v3n1/editorial7.html
Stemming and root-based approaches to the retrieval of
Arabic documents on the Web
http://www.webology.ir/2006/v3n1/a22.html
E-marketing, Unsolicited Commercial E-mail, and Legal
Solutions
http://www.webology.ir/2006/v3n1/a23.html
Environmental Knowledge and Marginalized Communities:
The Last Mile Connectivity
http://www.webology.ir/2006/v3n1/a24.html

5)
Version 62 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
is now available.  This selective bibliography presents over
2,680 articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources
that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing
efforts on the Internet.
http://epress.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html


6)
The Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly
Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals, by the
same author, provides much more in-depth coverage of the
open access movement and related topics (e.g., disciplinary
archives, e-prints, institutional repositories, open access
journals, and the Open Archives Initiative) than
SEPB does.
http://www.digital-scholarship.com/oab/oab.htm

7)
GRANTS
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/grants.html

"Students Invited to Join NetAid Global Citizen Corps"
 The application deadline is May 7, 2006.
http://www.netaid.org/global_citizen_corps/

"Grants for School Website Development"
 Deadline: May 30, 2006.
http://www.schoolspan.com/grant_SetYouFree.asp

"$1,000 Community Service Grant for Literary"
"Bee" the Change Community Service Grant for literacy
$1,000 to one young person between the ages of 5-25.
Deadline: June 9, 2006.
http://www.ysa.org/awards/award_grant.cfm#nowavailable

"Aramco Educators to Saudi Arabia Program"
 Eligibility: full-time social studies teachers and library media
specialists in grades 1-12. Deadline: June 15, 2006.
http://www.iie.org/programs/aramco/

"Beyond Words: The Dollar General School Library Relief Program"
Dollar General has created a grant program to benefit public school
libraries in communities affected by disasters.
Maximum Award: $15,000. Deadline: open.
http://www.ala.org/ala/aasl/aaslawards/dollargeneral/disasterrelief.htm

"Grants for Teaching Meteorology"
National Weather Association Sol Hirsch Education Fund Grants
Maximum Award: $500. Eligibility: Teachers, program directors, school district
supervisors and other individuals or groups proposing to improve the
education of K-12 students in meteorology. Deadline: August 1, 2006.
http://www.nwas.org/solhirsch.html

"Programs Targeting Children with Disabilities"
CVS/pharmacy Community Grants are currently accepting proposals for
programs targeting children under age 18 with disabilities
Deadline: applications accepted through October 2006.
http://www.cvs.com/corpInfo/community/community_grants.html

8)
Breach case could curtail web flaw finders
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/04/28/breach_suspect_prosecuted/
Security researchers and legal experts have voiced concern this week
over the prosecution of an information technology professional for
computer intrusion after he allegedly breached a university's online
application system while researching a flaw without the school's
permission.

9)
Next step in pirating: Faking a company
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/04/27/business/nec.php
After two years and thousands of hours of investigation in conjunction
with law enforcement agencies in China, Taiwan and Japan, the company
said it had uncovered something far more ambitious than clandestine
workshops turning out inferior copies of NEC products. The pirates
were faking the entire company.

10)
Study Shows Downside of IT Certification
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1954198,00.asp
Long seen as a method to maximize employment opportunities and
salaries in the post-dot-com-bust era, a study released today finds
that pay for certified IT skills falls short of the pay for
non-certified skills.
The Q1 2006 Hot Technical Skills and Certifications Pay Index,
released April 25 by Foote Partners, a New Canaan, Conn., IT
compensation and workforce management firm, found that pay premiums
for non-certified IT skills grew three times faster than for certified
ones in a six-month period spanning 2005-2006.
The study suggests that there has been a change in employers'
acceptance of the value of non-certified tech skills versus
certifications in maintaining competitive pay for their workers.

11)
Earlier today Facebook publicly opened registration
http://www.insidefacebook.com/?p=6
beyond the world of students for the first time (!) to people with
select corporate email accounts.
Facebook's corporate foray will make college career counselors
uneasy that unscrupulous employers might use the site to dig
for dirt on students who have applied for jobs.
Social Networks
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/socialnetwork.html

12)
McGill shuts down prof's site over Playboy pics
http://tinyurl.com/create.php
The website of a McGill University computer professor has been
shut down after he posted nude pictures of McGill students
from the current issue of Playboy.The photos accompany a story
that ranks the Montreal institution as the tenth best party
school in North America. Computer professor Luc Devroye
posted the photos in a section of his website dedicated to university news.

13)
Ag firm employee charged with hacking into county data base
http://www.lititzrecord.com/pages/news/local/4/22302
LITITZ, PA - Kline is a lieutenant with the West Hempfield Fire and Rescue Company.
Kline admitted logging into the restricted site. He said initially he would log in for curiosity, but
later he admitted running names in the system to look for background
information.He is accused of gaining information on restricted police intelligence and
investigative information he did not have access to see and also
disseminating portions of the information verbally.

14)
Pentagon Hacker Compromises Personal Data
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/28/AR2006042801540.html
An intruder gained access to a Defense Department
computer server and compromised confidential health care insurance
information for more than 14,000 people, the department said Friday.
The Pentagon established a toll-free telephone number (1-800-600-9332)
for affected people to call if they have questions. The computer
server is for people insured under the Pentagon's TRICARE health care
system.
Information included names, Social Security numbers, credit card
numbers and some personal health information.

15)
Your computer is not secure.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/erasehd.html
When agents from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
arrested convicted felon Michael Crooker on a charge of illegally
shipping a firearm across state lines, they searched his apartment in
the Feeding Hills neighborhood of Agawam, Mass. and found substances
that gave them pause.

16)
Pentagon Halts Contractor Clearances
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn//content/article/2006/04/28/AR2006042801878.html
The Pentagon stopped processing security clearances for government
contractors this week, potentially exacerbating a shortage of
employees authorized to work on the government's most secret programs.

17)
NIST releases standards for security logs
http://www.fcw.com/article94229-04-28-06-Web
The National Institute of Standards and Technology released technical
guidelines on how federal agencies should manage security logs. The
guidelines cover log generation, transmission, storage, analysis and
disposal.
The guidelines, NIST Special Publication 800-92: Guide to Computer
Security Log Management [1], include suggestions for creating a log
management policy, prioritizing log files and creating a centralized
log management infrastructure to include all hardware, software,
networks and media.

18) New Word - Screen Suckers for Adults and Generation M
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/NCFR/health.html

19)
STANFORD MED SCHOOL JOINS INTERNET PROJECT
The School of Medicine at Stanford University has joined a project led
by a San Diego company to develop a Web portal where users in China can
find accurate, current medical information.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/14473749.htm

Help overcome China Censorship
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/searchcountry.html

20)
'MyDeathSpace.com'
http://www.mydeathspace.com
Creates memorials online. An obituary social-networking mashup site that
collects the profiles of deceased MySpace users and links them to news
stories, obituaries or blogs that detail their lives as well as how they died.

21)
 Iridium trumpets latest satellite phones for emergency response
unveiled satellite telephone communications equipment that
will interoperate with existing UHF and VHF radio systems
already used by police, rescue agencies,
firefighters and other first responders.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/disaster.html


22)
SANS Institute updates list of 'Top 20 Internet Security Vulnerabilities'
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/050106-sans-top-20.html

23)
For those in support of the arts and freedom
http://gen-eric.com/music/
"Tower City shuts off band for political T-shirts"

24)
political citizen journalism in singapore
he singapore government has warned bloggers are
not to engaged in political discussion during general election (20th
april to 6th may) as activities like blogging, podcasting and
videocasting is not on the "approved" list.
despite that, citizen journalisms in singapore continues to cover
debates and rallies (mostly by oppositions) which is not covered by
the mainstream media. numerous singaporean blogs has dedicated to
cover the elections and rallies such as http://yawningbread.org/ and
http://djourne.net/sgelection06/


25)
Upgrade your nameserver.  There is no excuse
to be running 5-year old versions of software on a machine that
provides critical infrastructure.
http://lists.oarci.net/pipermail/dns-operations/2006-April/000504.html

26)
Ohio recalls voter registration CDs; Social Security numbers included
The data was to be used for get-out-the-vote efforts in upcoming
primary elections
http://tinyurl.com/knv6q



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