Edupage, January 14, 2005
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Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 16:24:40 -0700
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TOP STORIES FOR FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 2005
FBI's New Computer System Already Old
Texas Targets Notorious Spammers
Apple Sues Harvard Student
FBI'S NEW COMPUTER SYSTEM ALREADY OLD
A complete overhaul of the FBI's computer system following the
September 11 attacks may prove to have been wasted effort, according to
the agency. Criticism was leveled at intelligence agencies following
the attacks of September 11, with some arguing that, had information
been freely shared among the agencies, the attacks might have been
prevented. The FBI undertook to replace all of its systems at one time,
which agency officials said was the wrong approach. One official
compared the initiative to "changing wheels on a car that is going at
70 miles per hour." Such an overhaul, he said, should be done in
stages. Critics faulted the old system for being largely paper-based,
preventing agents in the field from accessing needed information or
from filing reports electronically. An application called Virtual Case
File was supposed to fix many of those problems, but after numerous
delays, the software that was finally delivered last month is largely
unusable.
Reuters, 13 January 2005
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=7324403
TEXAS TARGETS NOTORIOUS SPAMMERS
The attorney general of Texas has filed a civil lawsuit against two
individuals believed to be responsible for millions of illegal e-mail
solicitations. Ryan Samuel Pitylak, a student at the University of
Texas, and Mark Stephen Trotter of California operate two companies,
PayPerAction and Leadplex. Spamhaus.org, a watchdog group that monitors
spam, has identified the two companies as being among the top five spam
operations worldwide. Prosecutors allege that the e-mails sent by the
two companies violate state and federal laws, including the CAN-SPAM
Act, by including misleading subject lines and fraudulent information
in the body of the messages. The defendants, who are also accused of
violating Texas trade practices, face millions of dollars in fines,
though no criminal charges were filed against them. An attorney for the
defendants said his clients' businesses are in full compliance with
all applicable laws, including the CAN-SPAM Act.
CNET, 14 January 2005
http://news.com.com/2100-1030_3-5536356.html
APPLE SUES HARVARD STUDENT
Apple Computer has filed a lawsuit against the operator of a Web site
that revealed information about upcoming products before the company
publicly unveiled them. The ThinkSecret Web site posted rumors of a
sub-$500 Macintosh computer and an iPod that uses flash memory just
days before those products were announced at the Macworld show. Apple
has a reputation for being one of the most secretive high-tech
companies concerning new products, and it alleges that the information
posted by ThinkSecret was obtained illegally. The operator of the site,
however, which many industry analysts regard as one of the premier
rumor sites about Apple, turned out to be 19-year-old Nick Ciarelli, a
freshman at Harvard. Ciarelli, who started the site six years ago, said
he has done nothing wrong in collecting material to post. "My reporting
practices are the same that any journalists use," he said. "I talk to
sources, I confirm details, I follow up on tips and leads that I get."
Intellectual-property attorney Robert E. Camors said it will be
difficult for Apple to prove harm in the case because the information
revealed does not constitute trade secrets as traditionally defined and
because the information was not revealed sufficiently ahead of company
announcements for competitors to benefit from it.
Wall Street Journal, 14 January 2005 (sub. req'd)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB110566157500825906,00.html
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