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"Data theft is a growing phenomenon primarily caused by system administrators and office workers with access to technology such as database servers, desktop computers and a growing list of hand-held devices capable of storing digital information, such as USB flash drives, iPods and even digital cameras. Since employees often spend a considerable amount of time developing contacts and confidential and copyrighted information for the company they work for, they may feel they have some right to the information and are inclined to copy and/or delete part of it when they leave the company, or misuse it while they are still in employment. They can be sold and bought and then used by criminals and criminal organizations. Alternatively, an employee may choose to deliberately abuse trusted access to information for the purpose of exposing misconduct by the employer; From the perspective of the society such an act of whistleblowing can be seen as positive and is in certain situations protected by law in some jurisdictions, such as the USA. A common scenario is where a sales person makes a copy of the contact database for use in their next job. Typically, this is a clear violation of their terms of employment. Notable acts of data theft include those by leaker Chelsea Manning and self-proclaimed whistleblowers Edward Snowden and Hervé Falciani. Data theft methods The phrase data theft is actually a misnomer, since unlike theft the typical data theft methods typically do not deprive the owner of their data, but rather create an additional, unauthorized copy. =Thumbsucking= Thumbsucking, similar to podslurping, is the intentional or undeliberate use of a portable USB mass storage device, such as a USB flash drive (or "thumbdrive"), to illicitly download confidential data from a network endpoint. A USB flash drive was allegedly used to remove without authorization highly classified documents about the design of U.S. nuclear weapons from a vault at Los Alamos.Zagorin, Adam "A breach in nuclear security." Time, April 19, 2007. Retrieved April 21, 2007 The threat of thumbsucking has been amplified for a number of reasons, including the following: *The storage capacity of portable USB storage devices has increased. *The cost of high-capacity portable USB storage devices has decreased. *Networks have grown more dispersed, the number of remote network access points has increased and methods of network connection have expanded, increasing the number of vectors for network infiltration. Investigating data theft Techniques to investigate data theft include stochastic forensics, digital artifact analysis (especially of USB drive artifacts), and other computer forensics techniques. Terminology In some countries this term is incorrect because it is considered that theft is of a thing (material object) and information is not a thing.Código civil Argentino art. 2311Código penal Argentino art. 164 See also *Pod slurping *Bluesnarfing *Sneakernet *Data breach References External links *USBs' Giant Sucking Sound *Readers Weigh In: Is the IPod a Threat or a Scapegoat? Category:Data security Category:Theft Category:Data laws "
"Conzieu is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France. PopulationSee also *Communes of the Ain department *Lacs de Conzieu References *INSEE External links *Gazetteer Entry Category:Communes of Ain Category:Ain communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia "
"View from The Mountain House (1836), by William Henry Bartlett The Mountain House (1856), by Jasper Francis Cropsey Thomas Cole - A View of the Two Lakes and Mountain House, Catskill Mountains, Morning - Brooklyn Museum The Catskill Mountain House, which opened in 1824, was a famous hotel near Palenville, New York, and in the Catskill Mountains overlooking the Hudson River Valley. In its prime, from the 1850s to the turn of the century, it was visited by three U.S. presidents (U.S. Grant, Chester A. Arthur, and Theodore Roosevelt) and the power elite of the day. HistoryConstruction= The Mountain House's site, the "Pine Orchard," had long been famous for its panoramic views up and down the Hudson Valley and even beyond to the east. John Bartram and James Fenimore Cooper had both written about it, in different contexts. Artists and writers had discovered the Catskills some time earlier. Shortly after it was constructed, the Mountain House and its surroundings became a favorite subject for Washington Irving and artists of the new Hudson River School, most notably Thomas Cole. Cooper advised his European audience, "If you want to see the sights of America, go to see Niagara Falls, Lake George and the Catskill Mountain House." The hotel was built in 1823 and opened a year later by a group of merchants from nearby Catskill on a plateau with sweeping views of the Hudson Valley on one side and two lakes on the other side that provided water and recreation. In 1839, Charles L. Beach, whose father ran a stagecoach line from the town of Catskill to the Mountain House, leased the hotel from the owners for six years and then bought it outright. Beach rebuilt the Mountain House, changing the original Federal design into a neo-classical structure. =The Fried Chicken War= Postcard view of the hotel, undated One summer day in 1880, a prominent Philadelphia businessman and longtime Mountain House guest named George Harding asked a waiter to bring some fried chicken to his daughter Emily instead of the hotel's usual dinner fare of roast beef, as she had been prescribed a diet which excluded red meat. The ensuing argument went all the way to Beach, who refused to budge despite Harding's history with the hotel. In exasperation, Beach suggested that Harding should perhaps build his own hotel. Harding called the bluff, checking his family out that very day and beginning plans for his own hotel, to be located atop neighboring South Mountain and utterly dwarf Beach's. He kept his word, opening the Kaaterskill Hotel next year and offering the Mountain House its first real competition. The rivalry between the two hotels and their proprietors came to be known in the region as the "Fried Chicken War." It actually benefited both, since guests at one would often stroll to the other for lunch. The view that made the Mountain House famous came at a cost-- getting up the 1,600-foot (487.6 m) climb from the valley required a five-hour stagecoach ride. As more competing hotels that were easier to reach began to be developed, the Mountain House built the cable-operated Otis Elevating Railway to bring its guests directly from the Hudson to the hotel . But the railway proved to be expensive to operate, and was finally sold for scrap in 1918 during World War I. =Decline= Undated postcard (c. 1915-1920) Beach's promotional claim that the Mountain House sat amid the highest peaks in the Catskills suffered a major blow in the 1880s, when Princeton University geologist Arnold Henry Guyot undertook the first-ever comprehensive survey of the Catskills and found that the highest peak in the region was not Kaaterskill High Peak, which dominates the view south from higher mountains in the area, but Slide Mountain, many miles to the southwest in the Ulster County town of Shandaken. Beach, who had long claimed that the Pine Orchard was at 3,000 feet (914.4 m) above sea level, 750 feet (228.6 m) higher than its actual elevation (a fib perpetuated even today by the state historical marker at the site), joined forces with his rivals to cast doubt on Guyot's claim, and even questioned his scientific credentials. But by 1886, other surveyors had confirmed Guyot's results, and the North-South Lake area was no longer the heart of the Catskills. =Fall= The decaying Mountain House in 1953, during an unsuccessful attempt to renovate the hotel - Image courtesy of http://www.catskillarchive.com Beach and Harding both died in 1902. Just as the fame of the Mountain House was to be eclipsed by other area hotels, so were the Catskills eclipsed by the Adirondacks as the fashionable playground of the wealthy. The Mountain House continued to operate until the start of World War II -- 1941 was its last season. In 1962, the State of New York acquired the property. Preservationists pointed to the hotel's historic value, but were ultimately unsuccessful when it was burned by the state Conservation Department on January 25, 1963 in accordance with revisionist Forest Preserve management policies forbidding most structures on land retroactively decreed by government to be "forever wild." =Today= View from the site of the Mountain House, 2004 The state now operates a large public campground, North- South Lake, near the site of the hotel. The Mountain House site is an easy walk from it along the popular Escarpment Trail. All that remains of what was once America's most fashionable resort are the gateposts and the sweeping views from the cleared site. See also *Mohonk Mountain House *Overlook Mountain House External links *Catskill Mountain House Archive * "A visit to the Mountain House" from the Boston Recorder And Telegraph Oct. 6, 1826 *History of the Otis Elevating Railway *Catskill Mountain House *A history of the Town of Hunter *The Catskill Mountain House and The World Around movie *Brookes Universal Gazetteer (1850) References Category:History of New York (state) Category:Landmarks in New York (state) Category:Catskills Category:Hotels in New York (state) Category:Hudson River School sites Category:Demolished hotels in the United States Category:Hotel buildings completed in 1823 Category:Hotels established in 1824 Category:Buildings and structures in Greene County, New York "