NewsScan Daily, 9 June 2003 ("Above The Fold")

NewsScan Daily, 9 June 2003 ("Above The Fold")
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"ABOVE THE FOLD"
        Homeland Security Department Targets Cyberspace
        Microsoft Makes Bid for Interactive TV
        The Buzz on Ellison's Hostile Bid for PeopleSoft
        Challenge to 'Challenge-Response' Users: Be Careful!

FEATURES
        Flash Card
        NewsScan Summer Census
        Honorary Subscriber: Elbert Hubbard
        Mailbag: The World As We Find It

HOMELAND SECURITY DEPARTMENT TARGETS CYBERSPACE
The Department of Homeland Security has created a National Cyber Security 
Division -- a 60-person unit that will operate under the Department's 
Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection Directorate. The new 
division will build on existing expertise developed at the former Critical 
Infrastructure Assurance Office, the National Infrastructure Protection 
Center, the Federal Computer Incident Response Center and the National 
Communications System. "Most businesses in this country are unable to 
segregate the cyberoperations from the physical aspects of their business 
because they operate interdependently. This new division will be focused on 
the vitally important task of protecting the nation's cyberassets so that 
we may best protect the nation's critical infrastructure assets," said 
Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge in a statement. (CNet News.com 6 Jun 
2003)
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-1014067.html?tag=fd_top

MICROSOFT MAKES BID FOR INTERACTIVE TV
Microsoft launched its Microsoft TV Foundation Edition, a new software 
platform aimed at the digital cable boxes that perch atop many TV sets. The 
software includes applications that enable cable operators to create and 
deliver on-screen TV guides, video-on-demand and interactive commercials 
for their customers. This latest announcement marks the most promising 
foray yet into interactive TV and advanced digital TV services in a 10-year 
history of "ineffectual" efforts, says Forrester Research analyst Josh 
Bernoff. Comcast, the largest U.S. cable operator, will conduct trials of 
the new software. Microsoft owns a stake in Comcast through its $5-billion 
investment in AT&T Broadband, which was later acquired by Comcast. (AP 9 
Jun 2003)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030609/D7RI122O0.html

THE BUZZ ON ELLISON'S HOSTILE BID FOR PEOPLESOFT
Following PeopleSoft's announcement of an intent to acquire J.D. Edwards, 
Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison has launched a hostile bid on 
PeopleSoft. The move would expand Oracle's position in business 
applications software and its place in an industry-consolidation movement 
Ellison believes is inevitable. What's the buzz about the Oracle bid? Many 
industry observers are attributing it entirely to Ellison's own 
rambunctious personality. For example, technology lawyer Gary Reback, who 
once represented Ellison, calls it "very much an Oracle-type move," and 
explains: "A logical, aggressive, perhaps nasty move is to make a tender 
offer that you hope will sort of screw up what the target [PeopleSoft] is 
doing [trying to acquire J.D. Edwards]... You would be surprised among top 
business people how much predilection and personality and one-upsmanship 
come into play. The idea that a CEO does something that not only helps his 
company, but also helps his competitor -- man, that's a twofer." (San Jose 
Mercury News 7 Jun 2003)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6036077.htm

CHALLENGE TO 'CHALLENGE-RESPONSE' USERS: BE CAREFUL!
EarthLink has begun offering its 5 million subscribers "challenge and 
response" technology set up to send a "challenge" to any message from an 
unknown source, requiring that source to "respond" (and thereby supposedly 
proving it's from a human being rather than a spammer or pornographer). But 
many people who hate spam are saying the cure is worse than the illness; 
anti-spam consultant Steve Adkins warns, "It's sufficiently tempting that 
people will use it and will not realize all the bad things that will begin 
happening. Challenge-response is very, very unfriendly and rude to 
legitimate senders of e-mail." [Note: If you sign up for 
challenge-response, then say goodbye to NewsScan Daily.] (AP/Seattle 
Post-Intelligencer 9 Jun 2003)
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/125638_spamtech06.html

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FLASH CARD
      "A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a 
confession." (Albert Camus)

NEWSSCAN SUMMER CENSUS
      If you have a few minutes to spare this week, please send us a very 
short note telling us something about yourself...  What part of the country 
or the world are you in? What kind of work do you do? Etc. Just a sentence 
or two will be enough. This is by no means a scientific survey. We merely 
want to expand our own understanding of the NewsScan readership.
      Needless to say, we won't share with anyone else any details of what 
you tell us; this little exercise is intended strictly for our own 
edification and instruction. Perhaps it will help us make necessary changes 
to NewsScan Daily. For example, if we discover that a very large number of 
you are incarcerated, we will increase our coverage of criminal information 
systems.
      We look forward to hearing from you, and, as always, we appreciate 
your interest in NewsScan.

HONORARY SUBSCRIBER: ELBERT HUBBARD
      Today's Honorary Subscriber is the American editor-publisher and 
prolific writer Elbert Green Hubbard (1856-1915), who began his literary 
career at age 35 after retiring as head of sales and advertising for a 
manufacturing company.
       Hubbard sought an outlet for his ideas by establishing the Roycroft 
Press as a publisher fine books and engravings (following the model of the 
Kelmscott Press founded in England by poet and art lover William Morris). 
 From its location in East Aurora, New York, the Roycroft Press in time 
expanded into the Roycrofters Corporation, a semi-communal institution with 
800 people engaged in leather work, furniture making and various 
handicrafts. Roycrofter products were styled according to the interior 
decoration ideas of Morris.
      Much of what the Roycroft Press published was written by Hubbard 
himself. As a student of Emerson and Thoreau, he was committed to the hero 
as role model. His outlet for this conviction was series of 170 "Little 
Journey" booklets, issued monthly beginning in 1895. (Each was an 
inspirational biographical essay conceived as a visit to the home of a 
notable man or woman.) During this same period, Hubbard also published The 
Philistine, a magazine he established to vent his personal philosophy in an 
earnest, epigrammatic style.
      It was in The Philistine that Hubbard's most successful publication, 
"A Message to Garcia," first appeared. This story was an exhortation to 
fidelity and perseverance based on a Spanish-American War incident. The 
book enjoyed an extraordinary popularity among businessmen who liberally 
distributed copies to their employees.
      Hubbard and his wife died in the sinking of the ocean liner Lusitania 
in 1915.

See 
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1565544463/newsscancom/ref=nosim 
for "Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book: Containing the Inspired and Inspiring 
Selections Gathered During a Lifetime of Discriminated Reading for His Own 
Use" -- or look for it in your favorite library. (We donate all revenue 
from our book recommendations to adult literacy programs.)

MAILBAG: THE WORLD AS WE FIND IT

LET THERE BE TRANSPARENCY!
Re: http://www.newsscan.com/cgi-bin/findit_view?table=newsletter&id=8510
    Let there be transparency! I certainly hope Andrew Sullivan is right 
("Andrew Sullivan Says the Internet Did It") and that "the Internet strips 
away discretion, power and secrecy." He cites a list of industries that 
have already been shaken up and put under the searchlight glare thanks to 
the Web, and then adds "And you ain't seen nothing yet"; well, here is my 
list of places where we still need some revealing searchlights and 
"corrections": Congress and its pork-barreling; the Washington Lobby scam; 
government bureaucracy at all levels; CEO compensation; the healthcare 
industry; union management; and Federal Government nepotism -- just for 
starters. If it seems like there is a preponderance of government-related 
venues here, it's probably not coincidental. (Andrew Rafalski)

JUSTIFIED PARANOIA?
Re: http://www.newsscan.com/cgi-bin/findit_view?table=newsletter&id=8512
      After reading "YOU SAY TIA, I SAY GENOA", my socks rolled down to my 
heels! I've read many times in other places about the substantial rise in 
ID theft, but if a cyber-thief inside or outside of Genoa could steal 
identifying financial information (the Genoa jewels), it'd be the crime of 
the century (well, the new century is very young, so just make that the 
crime of the century so far)! Still, it might be awhile before the facts 
would come out, if ever. My guess is that there'd be a cover-up that'd 
overshadow previous ones, because the administrators of TIA/Genoa would be 
afraid their project would be dismantled. They'd tenaciously fight to hide 
the theft. They might say that thieves stole the data from other sources 
(credit card companies, banks, etc.) The institutions are reluctant to come 
clean, because they're afraid that customers will pull their accounts 
and/or future business may be damaged. Is the above, paranoid ravings or a 
realistic possibility...? Only a licensed psychiatrist or network security 
analyst can say. :>) As always, your newsletter fascinates! (Jim Bauman)

KEEP THE GOVERNMENT'S NOSE OUT OF THIS
Re: http://www.newsscan.com/cgi-bin/findit_view?table=newsletter&id=8480
      I find it appalling how quickly people, apparently yourselves 
included, sometimes tend to bring up the First Amendment as if it applied 
to anything and everything that might possibly be construed as censorship. 
Originally, as is quite obvious from reading its words, the First Amendment 
applied only to Congress. Since then, the Fourteenth Amendment has been 
deemed to extend it to the States as well. But the First Amendment has 
absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with (for example) censorship by 
parents who don't want their children exposed to pornography, or by 
businesses that want to limit the kinds of material on their machines and 
networks. Such private choices are independent of government action, and 
are therefore outside the scope of the First Amendment. Similarly, issues 
regarding spam-blocking software are private matters, and the Constitution 
is relevant only with regard to ensuring that they remain private. You have 
your right under the First Amendment to publish what you want to. But 
subscribers have the right to control what messages they allow on their 
computers and networks, and those property rights are also protected by the 
Constitution. And you, in turn, have the right to decide how much effort 
you are willing to exert to accommodate subscribers who choose (or whose 
employers choose) to use imperfect automated tools to avoid being bombarded 
with so much spam. With regard to the question of whether spam filtering 
software is good or bad, the only side the Constitution is on is the side 
of keeping government's nose out of the issue. (Nathan Barclay)

IF IT DON'T GO WHAM, IT AIN'T REAL SPAM
Re: http://www.newsscan.com/cgi-bin/findit_view?table=newsletter&id=8501
      Thanks, you people really made my day!!! Now I can get all this spam 
6,000 times faster and in the flashy multimedia format. Carry on the good 
work! (Nahum Goldmann)

BAD MUSIC DRIVES OUT GOOD (OR VICE VERSA)
Re: http://www.newsscan.com/cgi-bin/findit_view?table=newsletter&id=8504
      One of your recent Flash Cards caught my attention (as they do, I 
should admit, almost every day): "Only sick music makes money today." This 
statement by Friedrich Nietzsche is as true -- or wrong -- as a statement 
such as, "Only cynical quotes catch people's attention today." Probably the 
truth is that there is good and bad -- "sick" - music at any time. Observe 
that good and bad, especially when it comes to music, is very subjective. 
In fact, I can make the case that only good music makes money, because the 
law of the majority naturally shuts off bad music. (Prasad Golla)

QUIS CUSTODIET IPSOS CUSTODES?
Re: http://www.newsscan.com/cgi-bin/findit_view?table=newsletter&id=8493
      Regarding "Surveillance and Ethics": In addition to the issues raised 
so far, another flaw with the volunteer approach to surveillance is that it 
makes the system extremely vulnerable to "moles" -- that is, the volunteers 
could be the very people we want to watch. How many false alarms does it 
take before on-site security guards learn to ignore them? After which, the 
group organizing the false alarms makes their move, secure in the knowledge 
that they are effectively unmonitored. (Donald Schneider)

TRY SHUTTING IT OFF
Re: http://www.newsscan.com/cgi-bin/findit_view?table=newsletter&id=8484
      In reference to the article "Broadband Broadens Risk As Well As 
Performance" there's a very simple solution to the "always on" situation, 
as long as cable modems remain external to the machine; turn them off when 
you're not using them!  There is usually one button that will take you 
offline but leave the modem running with no communication abilities.  When 
you're ready to send email or search the web, turn it back on. Within 10 
seconds you're online again.  Given the amount of risk, this is a very 
simple step to eliminate the problem. (Greg Youngs)

THOSE WHO FAIL TO REMEMBER FLASH CARDS ARE... (WE FORGET)
     The recent debate over SpamAssassin and other spam-filtering software 
. the article on newer types of lie detectors being researched ... 
articles on biometrics / facial scanning and privacy ... and so forth, are 
creating an increased feeling that technology has a duality with higher and 
higher stakes. I see computer technology as having potentially wonderful 
benefits in such areas as assisting the physically challenged and analyzing 
complex problems (such as human impact on the planet). But it is also 
eroding our privacy and disempowering many people. This leads me to feel 
that humanity needs to be spending more time deciding where it wants to go 
(and less time on the means of getting there). I find various books on 
Buddhism and Taoism, on connecting with one's higher self, on the role of 
reason in one's thinking, on emotional intelligence, and the like, very 
helpful. I think we must hold elected officials to higher and higher levels 
of wise thinking and planning, or these dualities will become our undoing. 
Thanks so much for writing about technology in brief yet insightful ways, 
and for stimulating much-needed discussion on important issues. I think 
often of the notion that those who do not understand their past are 
condemned to repeat it -- which I note that you attributed to George 
Santayana in a Flash Card, although I have heard some attribute it to K'ung 
Fu-tse, also known as Confucius. (John Marshall)

VIRUS WRITING IS NO JOB FOR WORMS
Re: http://www.newsscan.com/cgi-bin/findit_view?table=newsletter&id=8494
      This expresses a frighteningly incomplete point of view. Computer 
science students already study and learn virus writing in classes -- virus 
writing is simply not very difficult. It is far more important to study the 
programs people can write and to ensure that competent programmers know 
virus writing is no accomplishment (especially the latter), than to bury 
your head in the sand and pretend it's arcane. THAT is the view that 
actually legitimizes virus writing! (Robert Braddock)

THE VIRTUAL SOUND OF VIRTUAL CASH
Re: http://www.newsscan.com/cgi-bin/findit_view?table=newsletter&id=8491
      Virtual money need not be coupled with identification. In 1985 David 
Chaum published an excellent article laying out a scheme for digital cash 
in a paper titled "Security without Identification: Transaction Systems to 
Make Big Brother Obsolete." See Communications of the ACM, October 1985, 
Volume 28, Number 10, pp 1030-1044. (Art Cabral)

MAD MORSELS
Re: http://www.newsscan.com/cgi-bin/findit_view?table=newsletter&id=8498
      Since someone opened the door ever so slightly with Ogden Nash and 
Dorothy Parker, let us recall the early slogan of MAD magazine: "What food 
these morsels be." (Jim McGee)

WHERE DID HE GO?... DID WE LOSE HIM?... WAS HE CUT OFF?
Re: http://www.newsscan.com/cgi-bin/findit_view?table=newsletter&id=8453
      Although I'm certain you'll receive a thousand or more messages 
sounding a lot like this one, I simply had to write. What sort of sick, 
twisted, cruel irony is it that Chey and Stephen Cobb's lovely article (on 
how computers guess wrong and blocked their lingerie purchase, and might in 
the future block innocent citizen's rights) was ITSELF incorrectly blocked 
by a computer system! Hey, wait! Maybe this isn't a coincidence! Perhaps 
the computers are already intelligent and are taking ov$&(#%^@#&%$* carrier 
lost (Joseph Knight)

DANIEL IN LION'S DEN: LEVEL-HEADED AND DETACHED
Re: http://www.newsscan.com/cgi-bin/findit_view?table=newsletter&id=8479
      Congrats on publishing the almost universal criticism of your own 
prior criticism of SpamAssassin. The piece from Daniel Quinlan was 
typically level-headed, detached and highly intelligent -- "typical", I 
mean, of the calibre of programmers with whom I'm familiar, in my job. [As 
a matter of fact, we've invited Daniel Quinlan of SpamAssassin to write 
some columns for us. -- J&S] We've been running Spamassassin at our 
institution for nigh on a year. We're dealing with about 300,000 messages a 
day, through our mail hubs. I myself receive over 500 spam messages per 
week, yet every single one of them is identified correctly by Spamassassin. 
However, the success is not due solely to SpamAssassin: it's also due to 
the highly professional staff in our Computing Service who install and 
monitor the software -- people who could talk peer-to-peer with Daniel and 
his colleagues if need be. These are often the unsung heroes of the world 
of the Internet: undervalued and misjudged by 99% of the population, 
because what they do is so very specialised. As others of your 
correspondents have remarked, a tool is only as good as the person who 
wields it. (John Law, UK)

FRIENDLY FIRE & DULL KNIVES (IN A JUMBLED METAPHORICAL WORLD)
Re: http://www.newsscan.com/cgi-bin/findit_view?table=newsletter&id=8479
      You have said to me [in a private message] that you don't want 
NewsScan Daily to be caught in the "friendly fire" of anti-spam systems, 
but I hope you realize that the "friendly fire" was from a defective gun, 
not that guns are inherently defective. No, that's not right. Make it a 
dull/poorly-guided knife damaging rather than cutting cleanly/correctly. 
Fortunately, it was, as your other readers attest, an exceptional case 
rather than the rule, although one must always be careful with knives. Dull 
ones can damage more easily than they do good and there's none sharp enough 
to be of use that cannot also do great damage.  Again, many, many thanks 
for the fine filtered flow of information in a jumbled world. (Stephen D. 
Franklin)

SPAM GAMES
Re: http://www.newsscan.com/cgi-bin/findit_view?table=newsletter&id=8479
      I enjoyed your spam coverage e-mail exchange. It is sociologically 
interesting to follow what spam still gets through spam filters. Some 
online mail services (Excite, Netscape) have spam filters in place, 
drastically reducing previous spam while allowing regular communications 
through as a service to members. Still, some SPAM does get through, 
inevitably related to Viagara, p*rn, s*x, or some such topic. Will these 
people never give up? Will this e-mail of mine be caught by your filter? It 
is an interesting game! (Steve Torok)

CHOOSE YOUR FILTERS, LADIES & GENTLEMENT, AND MEET OUTSIDE
Re: http://www.newsscan.com/cgi-bin/findit_view?table=newsletter&id=8479
      My points: 1. If users are on a system where they can not control any 
system-provided mail filters, they need to move to another system where 
they do have that control. 2. You have a right to publish your newsletter 
in e-mail form, and a right to have it protected by copyright laws. 3. 
Users (and in all but public systems, system administrators, or their 
superiors) have a right to implement filters on a system that handles email 
in pretty much any manner they please, provided they don't break copyright 
laws. You're not taking the First Amendment too seriously; you're placing 
the blame for lack of expected newsletter delivery on a class of tools 
(mail filtering software) rather than on the people who are responsible for 
using that tool. I don't think you're being too sensitive. However, I do 
think you're taking too much responsibility in the resolution of this 
problem. I don't think you should self-censor at all; rather, I think you 
should encourage users to take back the right to filter their email in the 
manner they choose. Thanks for another thought-provoking issue! (Wes Perdue)

UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF SPAM FILTERS
Re: http://www.newsscan.com/cgi-bin/findit_view?table=newsletter&id=8479
      Talk about unintended consequences: your reply [in a private message] 
to the message I sent you about the spam discussion ended up in my "spam 
trap" folder -­ so I didn't see it until today. I wondered why I hadn't 
heard from you :) And that's why my reply was delayed! (Now I've added your 
email to my "It's Not Spam, Put It Back In My Inbox" list, so it won't 
happen again.
      What you said is true about the consequences not being clear: but 
that's a problem with software in general, not just with spam filters. We 
shouldn't have to deal with such shortcomings for ANY software package -- 
but we've all gotten so used to it -- as a "fact of life" that we almost 
automatically compensate for it. (Thank you, Microsoft.)
      Since you made me think about it, I realized that that habitual 
automatic compensation was the source of my response (see 1st paragraph :).
      If the software doesn't do what you expect it to do, I expect to find 
a workaround. To be fair, it's not just Microsoft's tools -- it's most of 
the other tools I use regularly. I can only think of a (very) few software 
packages where I don't have to spend a least some of the time figuring out 
how to make it do something that the designers either: a) didn't design in; 
or b) made very obscure. (Cynthia Kondratieff)

ANOTHER TESTIMONIAL TO SPAMASSASSIN
Re: http://www.newsscan.com/cgi-bin/findit_view?table=newsletter&id=8479
      There are many aspects to SpamAssassin. The documentation does 
promote a concept of tag the message as spam or ham and pass it on to the 
end user to deal with. Which is exactly what happened with your message. 
Sounds like it worked to me!  The documentation covers things like 
whitelists and how to add your newsletter to it. The documentation covers 
things like making your own rules and changing the value for existing 
rules. Again you'll need to see your admin for that.  Since implementing 
SpamAssassin site-wide here our users have thanked us and asked for more 
ways to deal with spam. (Kevin W. Gagel)

TUNA NETS -- FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF A DOLPHIN
Re: http://www.newsscan.com/cgi-bin/findit_view?table=newsletter&id=8480
      I view spam as the KKK marching through my email neighborhood. It's 
unwanted and unneeded. But, I have to put up with it cause it has a right 
to be there, just like NewsScan has a right to be there. If not, we could 
have gotten rid of all the snail-junk mail that comes to our homes 
everyday. But that's still there too. Would you have filtered Gandhi's 
protests, or those of Martin Luther King, or Nelson Mandella? Speech is 
speech, but no one is making you listen.  It's an individual's choice to 
use SpamAssassin, or any other control tool, just like it was any Skokie 
residents choice to be or not to be in the area during the march. Aren't 
dolphins caught in the tuna nets? (Michael H. Bell)

YEP, IT SOUNDS LIKE 'THE MATRIX' ALL RIGHT
Re: http://www.newsscan.com/cgi-bin/findit_view?table=newsletter&id=8480
      From Windows Plug & Play, to ready-cooked meals that you just stuff 
in a microwave and press the "Auto Cook" button, we don't bother finding 
out how the thing we are doing or the device we are using works. So today, 
we all claim to be able to use a computer. We all claim to know we can 
cook. We all claim we have a spam filter. But the real deal is that we are 
becoming more and more inept at doing anything ourselves, and are relying 
on products out of a box to run our lives. Very few of us really know how 
to use a computer, very few of us really know how to cook, and very few of 
us have a spam filter that actually filters spam and lets legitimate e-mail 
through. We are becoming a world of idiots and machines are taking over. 
(sounds like the Matrix, doesn't it? :-) ) (Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond)

THE ROAD WILL BE BUMPY, LIVE WITH IT
Re: http://www.newsscan.com/cgi-bin/findit_view?table=newsletter&id=8480
      Rather than condemn the SpamAssassin filter system by the (rare) 
false-positive, I choose to praise it because it has made my in-box much 
more manageable. I receive HUNDREDS (well over 200) of unwanted emails 
daily, and SpamAssassin only mis-identifies a few per week. In fact, IT 
DOES WORK. It is not intended 'to filter spam and ONLY spam.' It is 
intended to flag messages with likely (repeat, likely) spam-attributes, 
using a score system, which the USER can use to filter messages as the USER 
believes appropriate. Therefore while I also use SpamAssassin, it did NOT 
flag NewsScan as SPAM because I have configured it differently. Those who 
condemn evolving filtering technology because of the bumps in the road 
along the way are foolish and often childish in their rhetoric. In the 
absence of effective filtering or other techniques, frustrated email users 
will become not so frustrated former-email users. (Lawrence Weeks)

TESTING 1-2-3
      As we abandon the discussion of spam and spam-filters until some 
entirely new event brings it up again, we'd like to suggest that developers 
of anti-spam and anti-pornography filters consider NewsScan Daily to test 
their work. NSD would be good for that purpose because (a) we don't 
distribute spam or pornography; (b) we do, however, frequently use words 
and word-patterns that seem to raise the hackles of some anti-spam and/or 
anti-pornography filters; and (c) we post the newsletter not from our 
personal addresses but from an impersonal and automated mail distribution 
system unable to respond to "challenges" requiring it to prove its 
humanity. Using NewsScan as a testbed might reduce the odds that software 
filtering systems will unintentionally put us out of business.
                                 -- John and Suzanne

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