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Monday, January 21, 2002 |
Henrico County, Va. school officials are recalling all 11,000 laptop
computers that it distributed to its high school students in order to
retrofit them with security software that will prevent students from using
the devices for accessing pornography or changing their grades -- abuses
that reportedly have occurred since the machines were handed out last fall.
Game and music downloading capabilities will also be eliminated or heavily
restricted and instant messaging will be limited to home use. Teachers have
complained that in-class use of entertainment file-sharing and messaging are
disruptive. (AP/*Wall Street Journal*, 20 Jan 2002; NewsScan Daily, 21 Jan
2002) http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB1011563803808773240.htm ["NewsScan" via risks-digest Volume 21, Issue 88]
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SAS Institute has developed software that it says can sift through e-mails
and other electronic text to discern falsehoods. "The patterns in people's
language change when they are uncertain or lying," says Peter Dorrington,
business solutions manager at SAS. "We can compare basic patterns in words
and grammatical structures versus benchmarks to detect likely lies." For
instance, over-use of the word "or" and too many adjectives can be
giveaways, according to Aldert Vrij's book, "Detecting Lies and Deceit."
SAS says its software can also be used to detect inaccuracies in resumes and
job applications. (*Financial Times*, 20 Jan 2002; NewsScan Daily, 21 Jan
2002) http://news.ft.com/news/industries/internet&e-commerce
[Risks? What risks? PGN] ["NewsScan" via risks-digest Volume 21, Issue 88]
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On a recent Sunday, walking past an office building in my area a woman asked
me for help getting into the building. She explained she had an appointment
with a tenant in the building but couldn't get in. She had dialed the
company's extension on an outside phone and gotten a recorded message to
'enter #2000 to come in, if you have an appointment'. The phone used '##' to
hang up calls, and it was the number of #s required that caused the problem
for the woman, but I find it baffling that an answering machine is
considered acceptable weekend security. [Benjamin Elijah Griffin via risks-digest Volume 21, Issue 88]
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Maximillian Dornseif, 2002.
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