The defense ministers According to reports, an
said the members would internal audit by the FBI
investigate ways to better found that the agency had
protect themselves against violated rules around the
btuhezz such attacks. collection of the data more
than 1,000 times, many
MUSIC more than the 22 times that
Apple links iPhone the Department of Justice
had found in a March report.
and iTunes Most of these newly
revealed violations involved
IF YOU WANT AN IPHONE, phone companies and
SECURITY The attacks essentially you’re going to have to get Internet service providers
NATO sees threat of comprised overloading cer- iTunes as well. giving the FBI records that
cyber-attacks growing tain Web sites by ramping According to a post on agents hadn’t requested up clicks. That reportedly Apple’s Web site, people who and were not authorized
NATO IS LOOKING FOR WAYS TO included some sites that buy an iPhone—the combi- to have and those agents
combat the growing threat normally got 1,000 to 1,500 nation cell phone, iPod and keeping the records in their
of cyber-attacks. clicks a day getting as many Internet access device—will files about terrorism and
At a press conference as 1,000 a second. need to have an i Tunes spying civilities, the news
June 14 in Brussel s, account before they will be reports said.
Belgium, defense able to activate it. FBI officials told The Wash-ministers from In addition, that account ington Post that the violations
the alliance said will be separate from the found in the audit were more
attacks such as one needed from AT&T, about agents not understand-the ones made which is the exclusive ing required legal procedures
on Estonia’s com- United States distributor and less about them know-puter networks in for the iPhone. Essen- ingly violating the law.
May threatened tially, users will have two
the security and accounts to pay—the one —Compiled by Jeffrey Burt
economies of all for iTunes to Apple, and a
European nations. second one for mobile ser- BY THE NUMBERS
The assaults on vices from AT&T.
private and govern- On its site, Apple encour- Clearing the air
ment Web sites in Estonia Estonia officials com- ages those people who
came after officials there pared the cyber assaults to don’t already have an i Tunes
and in Russia disagreed terrorist attacks and urged account to get one set up
on Estonia’s decision to NATO countries to react ahead of time to avoid the
move a Soviet-era statue. quickly to the problem. rush. The iPhone is due for
general availability in the
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United States June 29 and
QUOTE OF THE WEEK later in the year in Europe. million
The fallacy is that there is something
called ‘old data.’ What’s personal about
me tends to remain personal even with
the passage of time.
LEGAL
FBI audit finds data
collection abuses
IT LOOKS AS IF THE FBI HAD
more problems than previously thought in the way
it collected data on things
such as telephone calls, e-mail and financial records.
The amount—in tons—of
computer-based CO2
emissions reduced annually by 2010 under the
Climate Savers Computing
Initiative unveiled June
Mark Rasch, ex-U.S. Justice official, disputing some retailers’ use of old customer information to test credit card
processing systems
13 by Google and Intel,
equivalent of the annual
output of 11 million cars
