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Dallas Morning News
Lack of sprinklers at museum criticized
N. Dallas: System could have limited damage to religious art, experts 
say
10:29 AM CDT on Thursday, June 30, 2005
By KIMBERLY DURNAN / DallasNews.com
A sprinkler system, rather than a lone man wielding a fire 
extinguisher, might have gone a long way toward
salvaging the Biblical Arts Center's precious works from Tuesday's 
massive fire, experts said.
<http://www.dallasnews.com/s/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/063005dnmetsprinkler.5a572aee.html>

Dallas Morning News
Paperless municipal court eases long lines, workload
Plano: Handling cases electronically reduces risks, boosts efficiency
07:15 AM CDT on Monday, July 11, 2005
By KIM BREEN / The Dallas Morning News
Paying off that speeding ticket fine is now a little less painful in 
Plano.
The city's municipal court, which handles traffic and parking tickets, 
code violations and petty criminal
offenses, recently became one of the first in the state to go paperless.
<http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/071105dnmetpaperlesscourt.9419c312.html>

Pioneer Press
Officials, ex-webmaster clash over missing data
No political motive, ex-administrator says
BY ALEX FRIEDRICH
Pioneer Press
Grant city officials are looking into why the city's former volunteer 
Web site administrator deleted hundreds of files from the
city's Web site after she left the job this past winter.
The deletions happened in March and removed copies of city ordinances, 
minutes from meetings and indexes of city documents
 from a Web computer server. They did not put any original documents at 
risk, said current webmaster Glenn Larson, who
restored the files using computer backups.
<http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/news/local/12038792.htm>

The Telegraph
Files on Himmler 'murder' exposed as fake
By Ben Fenton
(Filed: 02/07/2005)
Documents from the National Archives used to substantiate
claims that British intelligence agents murdered Heinrich
Himmler in 1945 are forgeries, The Daily Telegraph can
reveal today.
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/07/02/nhimmler02.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/07/02/ixportaltop.html>

The Telegraph
How was archive security breached?
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=KAGHDAVY5BWLTQFIQMGSM5WAVCBQWJVC?xml=/news/2005/07/02/nhimmler502.xml&secureRefresh=true&_requestid=20464>

The Telegraph
Forgeries exposed by a hunch and by science
By Ben Fenton
(Filed: 02/07/2005)
At first sight the three documents seized on by Martin Allen to 
underpin allegations that the Political Warfare Executive was
responsible for the assassination of Himmler looked remarkable.
At second sight they looked even more remarkable because their language 
just did not ring true.
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=KAGHDAVY5BWLTQFIQMGSM5WAVCBQWJVC?xml=/news/2005/07/02/nhimmler302.xml&secureRefresh=true&_requestid=20456>

The Telegraph
'You expect everything in PRO to be real. It's a disaster'
By Ben Fenton
(Filed: 02/07/2005)
"Crikey," Martin Allen said when he was told that the documents on 
which he based the climax of his book were forgeries.
"Bloody hell, how could that have had happened?"
The historian, who lives in Gillingham, Dorset, denied absolutely any 
previous knowledge that the papers he had discovered in
the autumn of 2003 were bogus.
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=KAGHDAVY5BWLTQFIQMGSM5WAVCBQWJVC?xml=/news/2005/07/02/nhimmler402.xml&secureRefresh=true&_requestid=20460>

The Telegraph
Himmler files confirmed as forgeries
By Ben Fenton
(Filed: 11/07/2005)
New disclosures about forged documents at the National Archives emerged 
yesterday as officials in Kew formally confirmed
that documents in its files about Heinrich Himmler, recently identified 
as bogus by The Daily Telegraph, were counterfeit.
The first set of five forged papers were used by the historian Martin 
Allen to support allegations in his book Himmler's Secret
War that the head of the SS did not commit suicide, but was murdered by 
British intelligence agents.
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=FPUJKS3K01L35QFIQMGSM54AVCBQWJVC?xml=/news/2005/07/11/nhimm11.xml&secureRefresh=true&_requestid=84294>

The Telegraph
Historian calls for an inquiry over fake Himmler documents
By Ben Fenton
(Filed: 04/07/2005)
One of Britain's leading historians has called for a criminal 
investigation into the "contamination" of The National Archives after
The Daily Telegraph showed that forged documents had been smuggled into 
files in the building.
Andrew Roberts, a biographer of Winston Churchill, said: "There must be 
prosecutions. The police must go through all the
evidence and find out who has done this and prosecute with the full 
weight of the law."
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/07/04/nhimm04.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/07/04/ixportal.html>

New York Times
Data Theft: How to Fix the Mess
IN the early 1970's, Senator William Proxmire, the Wisconsin Democrat 
who was the scourge of the banking industry, decided something needed to
be done about the chaotic state of the credit card business.
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/09/business/09nocera.html>

PRESERVING the Last Copy - Building a long-term digital archive
CTR - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... IT departments have never thought of themselves as performing 
library
functions but now find themselves in the role of traditional archivists
having to ...
<http://www.wwpi.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=598&Itemid=44>

COMPANY uses history as path to success
Business Edge - Alberta,Canada
... "Public History has an excellent capacity for archival data 
collection,"
says Reimer, whose Ottawa-based company conducts social science 
research,
including ...
<http://www.businessedge.ca/article.cfm/newsID/9903.cfm>

STATE'S online records pose risk
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA
... Public documents that sometimes contain names and Social Security 
numbers
include state and federal tax liens, Massachusetts Health liens, child
support liens ...
<http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2005/06/23/states_online_records_pose_risk>

INFORMATION archiving at Citigroup
VNUNet.com - Haarlem,Netherlands
About two years ago, Citigroup Global Markets needed to completely 
review
its data retention policy in Germany due to the changing regulatory 
environment
and ...
<http://www.vnunet.com/computing/features/2138699/information-archiving-citigroup>

THIS PC Will Self-Destruct
Wall Street Journal - USA
... an MCI financial analyst's garage, a laptop with travel ... with 
Social
Security numbers of Motorola Inc ... workers were stolen from the 
company's
human resources firm ...
<http://online.wsj.com/public/article/0,,SB111928757574864209-rT_Chc7sMJKzcW_ANJjb_9_PfUE_20060622,00.html?mod=tff_main_tff_top>

STATE set to pass ID theft measure
NorthJersey.com - Hackensack,NJ,USA
... Earlier this month, Citigroup said UPS lost computer tapes with 
sensitive
... In April, employees with Bank of America, Commerce Bank, PNC Bank
and Wachovia Bank ...
<http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk2MDYmZmdiZWw3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTY3MTE3MjUmeXJpcnk3ZjcxN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXky>

SECURITY Bytes: Infected computer leaks nuke plant documents
SearchSecurity.com - Needham,MA,USA
... computer at Mitsubishi Electric Plant Engineering [MPE] has allowed
users of a peer-to-peer file-sharing system to read confidential 
documents
related to ...
<http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1101207,00.html>

GOLD MINE OF HISTORY
Miami Herald - FL,USA
BY CAMMY CLARK. DAYTONA BEACH - Archivist Eddie Roche stood on the 
loading
dock, with a view of the fleet of Daytona 500 pace cars. ...
<http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/sports/11989381.htm>

FEW laws require data theft be public
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA
... The issue first appeared on the nation's radar screen in February 
when
Georgia-based ChoicePoint, a data storage company, announced that 
thieves
had gained ...
<http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/business/11984821.htm>

LOSE the file cabinets
FCW.com - USA
... Experts say archivists should incorporate PDF/A into the National 
Archives
and Records Administration's Electronic Records Archives program. ...
<http://www.fcw.com/article89385-06-27-05-Print>


THIS Time, Security Breach Is Personal
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
BofA reported that my number, along with my name, address, telephone 
number
and online banking ID, were all stored in a bank laptop stolen from a
car in the ...
<http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-golden30jun30,1,63203.column?coll=la-utilities-business>

IRON Mountain turns corner after Time Warner failure
IDM.net.au - Strawberry Hills,NSW,Australia
Jun 30, 2005: Iron Mountain had a lot of ground to make up after it lost
tapes that contained computer back-up information for about 600,000 Time
Warner ...
<http://www.idm.net.au/story.asp?id=6491>

US court grants AMD document retention request
Computerworld New Zealand - Auckland,New Zealand
... to 32 computer companies, microprocessor distributors and computer
retailers requesting that they suspend their normal document destruction
policies and take ...
<http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/0/AA730F978AEA0A72CC2570340069C5A3?OpenDocument&pub=Computerworld>

SCHOOL records aren't all permanent
Rutland Herald - Rutland,VT,USA
... Prior to 1994, all our transcripts are on microfilm.". Rutland High
School retains its records for four or five years before shredding them.
...
<http://www.rutlandherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050710/NEWS/507100374/1004>




Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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