Friday, March 30, 2007

Balancing Privacy and Public Access to "Public" Documents Privacy advocate prompts Colorado to end web access to some public documents. Yesterday the Colorado Secretary of State's office moved quickly to shut down online access to documents with Social Security numbers after a privacy advocate notified them about the potential breach of sensitive information.[Computerworld Breaking News] Earlier California Secretary of State Debra Bowen also removed these documents. She said her office was also freezing bulk electronic sales of its Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) database until all but the last four digits of Social Security numbers were removed from documents. The California Secretary of State has approximately 2 million UCC filings on record, of which about a third contain Social Security numbers. How do I know if mine was among those? 10:06:45 PM    comment [] An Unexpected Vulnerability Users warned on Windows cursors. Microsoft is warning users about a flaw in Windows animated cursors that could leave PCs open to attack. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition] Have we reached the point where every feature of Windows has some possibility of attack? I think fonts fonts have been free from flaws so far, but correct me if I missed those. 9:56:35 PM    comment []

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