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New York Times
Countrywide Tells Judge It 'Recreated' Letters
It's early in the year, but we agree with our friend Steve Teppler when he says this statement, from Countrywide's spokesman is an early contender for most obfuscatory spin of 2008: "A spokesman for the lender said: 'It is not Countrywide's policy to create or 'fabricate' any documents as evidence that they were sent if they had not been. We believe it will be shown in further discovery that the Countrywide bankruptcy technician who generated the documents at issue did so as an efficient way to convey the dates the escrow analyses were done and the calculations of the payments as a result of the analyses.'" English translation: It's not our custom to create or fabricate, except where we think no one will notice. In such instances, we will pile on the technical language in an attempt to blindside any inquiry. Also: "They were not generated to prove that they had been sent" Translation: They were generated to make people believe they were sent, not to prove they were sent. Jeez, can't you guys get it?
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WIRED Magazine
Amateur Time Hackers Play With Atomic Clocks at Home
Wired Magazine reports that with the end of the Cold War, and with telecommunications technology advancing rapidly, surplus stores and eBay have filled up with discarded precision time equipment once exclusive to government labs. Cesium clocks, rubidium clocks and even the occasional hydrogen maser can be had for less than a decent laptop. A recent search on eBay turned up an HP 5061B cesium standard for sale for $2,000, and you can get a telecom surplus rubidium standard for less than $400. Some of this equipment costs upwards of $50,000 new. Their access to once-forbidden technology lets the time hackers play in a realm of precision that underpins the modern technological world. A select few, like Tom Van Baak, have started exploring the underpinnings of the universe.
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Document (Integrity) Management
Cabinet NG Partners With ProofSpace to Authenticate Document Management
Cabinet NG, the preeminent automated document management and workflow solution for small enterprise businesses, and ProofSpace today announced an agreement to embed ProofSpace's patented ProofMark™ digital tamper-detection technology into Cabinet NG's flagship document management solution, CNG-SAFE. The ProofMark technology will be initially made available as an advanced authentication plug-in to CNG-SAFE, which consolidates all of a company's information into one organized and easy-to-use system. Targeted at Cabinet NG's financial industry customers, the ProofMark enhancement package will enable companies to better protect high-value documents and transaction records, and prove the authenticity of those records to regulators, auditors, clients and courts. You can read more about the deal right here.
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E-Discovery
Law.com Posts Great List of E-Discovery Blogs and Tools
Robert J. Ambrogi, writer for Law Technology News writes in a two-part column that no lawyer today can afford to ignore electronic data discovery. "No matter the case, digital data is likely to be implicated. That means lawyers urgently need to understand EDD and keep abreast of developments in the field." In the first column, he looks at some of the more useful Web sites for learning about and keeping current with this essential area of practice. In the second, he surveys blogs about e-discovery and look at some vendor sites that include useful resources. Both are great bookmarks for any of you out there who are trying to catch the tiger-by-its-tail that is modern E-discovery.
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