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...download confidential files. Armed with a 20-GB iPod, a disgruntled employee - or even an outgoing staff member keen to retain contacts - could nab an entire client database, according to computer-security firm Centennial Software. Late last year, one London recruitment agency worker poached the firm's client base with his iPod, before launching a rival company. So what's the company IT boss to do? Squeezing superglue into USB ports (as some have done) is no long-term fix. The devices should be "prohibited where confidential information could leak out," says David Friedlander, senior analyst at tech consultants Forrester...
...found the views of Ta-Nehisi Paul Coates off base and offensive in his piece about his disenchantment with black music, "Black Guy, White Music" [Aug. 22]. To suggest that an entire genre of music has not grown and evolved just as its listeners have is simply uneducated. There is more to hip-hop than the mainstream media choose to embrace. There is a whole world of music, from rapper Talib Kweli to hip-hop poet and singer Saul Williams, that isn't a painful "audio beat down." I have a hard time with labels like black music and white...
...raged in a radio interview that he ended in tears. But he of all people was in a position to understand the odds. A city known both for its charm and its rot, not just from the termites consuming whole neighborhoods but from a corrupt police force, dissolving tax base, neglected infrastructure, rising poverty and a murder rate that inspired old-timers to pack a gun beneath their tuxes on their way to the Mardi Gras parade, could hardly have been less equipped to cope with a catastrophe that everyone knew was coming. "Half of Louisiana is under water," former...
...that evening, seven helicopters from the Air Force Reserve 920th Rescue Wing out of Patrick Air Force Base, Fla., had ferried hundreds of refugees onto the runway at New Orleans Lakefront Airport, where they waited in darkness to go somewhere, anywhere. Beside them, Colonel Tim Tarchick, the wing commander, screamed into his satellite phone at someone from the Emergency Operations Center. "I've got 1,000 people who have been dropped here. We're out of food, and they're starting to get tense. We need security. It's like frickin' Baghdad here. You have to take control," he yelled...
...gotten some big stories in the newspaper. I was terrified. I wasn't cut out for this. I never wanted to be a war correspondent. I hadn't expected to be on the front line. I thought I was going to be positioned somewhere on a military base, or whatever. I just couldn't justify it to myself, and also I was really worried about my family. I just knew that my parents and grandparents were sitting around there watching the TV, wanting to throw up all of the time. I just thought if I got killed, it didn...