Someone didn't just cross the privacy line ....they went for a leap!

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Brouhaha erupts over Bozeman job requirement

One a minute - that's the rate at which emails are arriving in the email inbox belonging to the City of Bozeman's attorney in response to a story about the City requiring that job applicants hand over login information and passwords for social network sites.

"Please list any and all, current personal or business websites, web pages or memberships on any Internet-based chat rooms, social clubs or forums, to include, but not limited to: Facebook, Google, Yahoo, YouTube.com, MySpace, etc.," the City form states. There are then three lines where applicants can list the Web sites, their user names and log-in information and their passwords.

High school student who wouldn't stop using cell phone Tasered

At Penn Hills High School this morning, Chief Burton said, a student was walking up and down a hallway, using a cell phone. School policy permits students to have cell phones but not to use them during school except in emergencies, Chief Burton said.

A Penn Hills police officer told him to put the phone away and go to class.

"The kid refused to listen," Chief Burton said. "The officer took him by the arm and said, 'You have to go to the office.' The student resisted, pushed the officer. The officer, defending himself, took out his stun gun and did a drive stun."

Chief Burton said a drive stun involves pushing the Taser against a portion of the body and squeezing the trigger, thus immobilizing a portion of the body, such as the leg. He said this affects about a 2- or 3-inch area.

While on the floor, the student was still resisting and was placed in handcuffs, Chief Burton said.

How to safeguard your data as you travel

With Wi-Fi access at airports, hotels, and aboard airplanes, business travelers don't have to look very hard for a wireless Internet connection.

But with these public wireless hotspots becoming more prevalent, in addition to more travelers using smart phones for Web access, are business travelers putting themselves at a security risk?

The short answer, some technology security experts say, is yes. But they add that the use of Wi-Fi at these spots is no riskier than at a coffee shop.

"It's a shared medium, and if you can connect to it, someone else can connect to it and monitor your traffic," said Marty Linder, a senior member of the technical staff at the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute CERT/Coordination Center. "That has nothing to do with the security of the network. It's just the nature of the beast."

CDA Immunity Survives Another Test

A federal court in Texas recently ruled that MySpace may retain immunity under the Communications Decency Act (CDA) for information that users were prompted -- but not required -- to provide when creating a new MySpace profile.  In Jane Doe IX v. MySpace, Inc., a mother sued on behalf of her 15-year-old daughter, who was allegedly "lured from her home and sexually assaulted by a sexual predator ... who communicated with her and ultimately orchestrated his sexual assault of her through the MySpace.com website.”  The plaintiffs sued MySpace for "negligence ... and ... failing to implement reasonable safety measures to protect minors."  MySpace moved to dismiss under section 230(c)(1) of the CDA, which states that "[n]o provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider."