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Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on April 12, 2006 at 1:51:17 PM
Don't quit your day job.
UK bird tests may miss flu.
CertifiedEmail won't reduce spam.
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Citrin ultimately decided to quit and go into business for himself, apparently in breach of his employment contract, according to IAC. Before returning the laptop to the companies, Citrin deleted all of the data he had collected--but he also deleted data that would have revealed improper conduct before deciding to quit, IAC claimed. He caused this deletion using a secure-erasure program making it impossible to recover the deleted information, it asserted.
UK bird tests may miss flu.
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Last week, scientists found H5N1 bird flu for the first time in the UK, in a dead swan in Fife, Scotland. The UK's environment ministry DEFRA again stated that all wild birds tested so far were negative for flu, so it was unlikely to be widespread. Now an investigation by New Scientist suggests that all those tests were flawed, meaning no one really knows just how widespread infection among British wild birds might be.
CertifiedEmail won't reduce spam.
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The committee also heard from several small groups still concerned that their email will be stopped in spam filters and that they will be charged a fee - even though AOL has offered to cover nonprofits' CertifiedEmail expenses. Florez wants California to have oversight on the AOL program and suggested that the state may get involved in regulating e-mail authentication programs.