Meandering

Police are uneasy about postings from William Sheehan in Washington that shares a lot of personal information (NYT).   Courts (federal) have upheld his rights – even striking down a law (Washington State) that forbade him from publishing home addresses, phone numbers, birth dates, and social security numbers (hmm… Georgia has a similar law).  The District Court in Seattle said Sheehan’s site was “analytically indistinguishable from a newspaper.” 

Lots of solid issues here – privacy is a concern, the ability to speak is a concern, but, so is the ability of anyone to publish their thoughts.  Tough calls on all three.  Course, like most of us in public service – you lose your anonymity when you take the paycheck.

Korea most wired (Forbes) – everyone is using the net, old, young, you name it.  Makes you wonder if we “get it.”

Revolving doors – Richard Clarke will now help you with Homeland Security issues – for a fee (Computer World).

Security – well, you may not be worried if your site is on the front page for yet another computer security incident – but do you want to be there as a distributor of porn?  New Trojan hijacks pc’s to do just that (wired).

Winer blogging – you know, some of us want to use the tool as a tool – not as a replacement for a life – so, all you folks worried about editing posts – GET OVER IT!

(There, I feel better).  Now, about my page renderings not looking so hot…

Graham Leach Bliley – and if you thought that PATRIOT Act was onerous, wait til you discover GLB is applied to Universities per FTC rules….  But, we’re not worried about it here in Georgia – nah, the Dooley-Adams feud is the most important issue here – if you read the editorials.

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Revolving Door

Just in case you can't figure out how to respond to homeland security regulations, Richard Clarke has hung out his shingle to help.

Richard Clarke to lead homeland security consulting firm. Good Harbor Consulting will target a wide range of corporate clients, providing strategic consulting services in the areas of homeland security, cybersecurity, protection of critical infrastructure and counterterrorism. [Computerworld News]

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