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CDT: Why Am I Getting All This Spam?

HIPAAction - Steps for Providers: HIPAA Gap Assessment/Risk Analysis
HIPAAction Resources: Security

Via beSpacific: Cybercrime, File Sharing and College Students:

On March 13, the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property held an Oversight Hearing on “International Copyright Piracy: Links to Organized Crime and Terrorism” Links are as follows to the Witness List: John Malcolm, Rich LaMagna, Joan Borsten Vidov, Jack Valenti.

Although not a focus of the hearing, campus-wide file sharing was mentioned. See this related article from IDG News in which Representative John Carter (R- TX) is quoted as stating, “I think it’d be a good idea to go out and actually bust a couple of these college kids… If you want to see college kids duck and run, you let them read the papers and somebody’s got a 33-month sentence in the federal penitentiary for downloading copyrighted materials.”

InfoPath will be big. It looks to me like a very close fit to what a lot of people need XML for. XForms could be it too, but the combination of standards-track and whole-lotta indirection and abstraction seems to be making it hard to produce actual working tools (just my opinion based on looking for some simple tool to achieve some simple things).
See Don Box: Clemens rakes the red pill
and Clemens Vasters: Instant Love
and Collaxa’s Take: Infopath: The path to the 2-way internet

Student Charged With Hacking at U-Texas (TechNews.com)

“Federal prosecutors today charged a University of Texas student with breaking into a school database and stealing more than 55,000 student, faculty and staff names and Social Security numbers in one of the nation’s biggest cases of data theft involving a university.

Christopher Andrew Phillips, 20, a junior who studies natural sciences, turned himself in at the U.S. Secret Service office in Austin. He was charged with unauthorized access to a protected computer and using false identification with intent to commit a federal offense.”

Via Counterpane: Crypto-Gram: “Good seven-page summary of the 289-page HIPAA regulations” [Introduction] [Outline(PDF)]

Christian Science Monitor: an experience with Dramatica Pro [via Techdirt]

David Berlind’s

JamSpam.org

J.H. Saltzer, D.P. Reed and D.D. Clark: End-to-End Arguments in System Design (circa 1980)

Cringely: Collateral Damage: Why Most Internet Advertising Doesn’t Work and What Little Does Work Is Killing Us:

“ At the same time that the sheer volume of spam is clogging networks and demanding server upgrades to handle all the sludge, crude anti-spam techniques are making our Internet communications less effective and less efficient. We are both drowning in spam and trying to stop it by hitting ourselves in the head. But wait, there’s more! Politicians, who think their job is to make laws that tell us when to breathe, now want to make spam illegal, which might be nice if it didn’t at the same time trample on the U.S. Constitution. One minute spam will be illegal and the next minute it will be against the law to say vice president Dick Cheney really ought to lose a little weight. Killing spam isn’t worth the loss of free speech, at least not to me.”