Monday, May 02, 2005

Data for 600,000 Time Warner employees MIA. Company says tapes containing past and current employees' personal information got lost while in transit. [CNET News.com] Another one!  Still believe these have been happening all along.  Just getting exposure now after the law in CA. 4:26:56 PM    comment [] Military Mistake Caused Data Leak (AP). AP - Just a few clicks were enough to reveal names, training procedures and other secrets the U.S. military thought it had blacked out from an electronic report. [Yahoo! News: Technology] This is interesting.  The need to hide information still exists as it always had.  But, the skill to do it is at a much higher level than the admin blacking things out with a marker AND the more  complicated knowledge needs to be spread across a much larger group of people. Wonder how often this goes on in the legal area between plantiffs and defendents?  Or, is that why they continue to send things via paper?  Transparency will rule differently... I guess we better get used to it 4:06:57 PM    comment [] Postponement Sought for First Vioxx Trial. In a joint filing, lawyers for Merck and the widow of a man who died after reportedly taking the Merck drug Vioxx asked a state judge in Alabama to postpone the lawsuit. By By ALEX BERENSON. [NYT > Health] 3:17:41 PM    comment []

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