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Pentagon May Issue Pocket Lie Detectors to Afghan Soldiers

2008-04-14 12:57:47 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...accuracy numbers that were sent up the chain of command at the Pentagon before the device was approved But Pentagon studies obtained by msnbc.com show a more complicated picture: In calculating its accuracy, the scientists conducting the tests discarded the yellow screens, or inconclusive readings That practice was criticized in the 2003...
 
Tags: pentagon, measure accuracy, accuracy, pcass accuracy, pentagon studies, lie detectors, yellow screens, tests drops, pcass
 
 
 
 
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Is Risk-Based Security Really Possible?

2007-07-26 20:42:00 by Bryan in practical risk management
 
...accuracy across a certain demographic - we don't They have a straightforward way of estimating the loss associated with those events with reasonable numerical accuracy - we don't Not to mention the fact that insurance and information security are fundamentally different models, but I'll save that tangent for another time How does one...
 
Tags: security, information security, information security decisions, security management, security breach, breach, risk, wrong, ale hopelessly wrong
 
 
 
 
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Charting a Landscape with Wi-Fi Signals

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2008-04-14 13:55:30 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...accuracy or analysis. The maps of Wi-Fi coverage that are out there "rely on people going out and wardriving and submitting the data to some sort of online repository," Dr. Torrens said. While they may use GPS for timestamping and logging samples, "Unless you really know what you're doing with it, it provides very weak spatial accuracies...
 
Tags: wi-fi, wi-fi geographies, gather live data, gather, data, wi-fi cloud, data sets, time, space-time topography
 
 
 
 
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The Audacity of Capital Markets

2008-09-19 11:18:37 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...accuracy, the original set of problems defined when the phrase complex event processing was minted, the capital market folks have hijacked the term for their marketing purposes in algo trading and order managment systems. These same people ridicule others who are working to solve the (originally stated) complex event processing problems,...
 
Tags: capital market folks, market folks, financial services, financial services folks, folks, complex, capital markets, hard complex, complex money
 
 
 
 
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Tests in Ohio point to e-voting insecurities

2007-12-31 00:00:00 by HASH0x8471528 in Network World on Security
 
A series of tests on the electronic voting systems used in Ohio showed that security shortcomings are a continuing danger to the accuracy of elections there, according to a report released in December by Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner
 
Tags: ohio, ohio secretary, tests, security shortcomings, jennifer brunner, elections, danger, series, report
 
 
 
 
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Which CAPTCHA Do You Want to Decode Today?

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2007-11-28 15:22:59 by HASH0x89f1f84 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...accuracy, the price, and the ease of difficulty of breaking it. CAPTCHA decoding is listed for the following services : 9you, tiancity, cncard, the9, kingsoft, taobao, dvbbs, shanda, csdn, chinaren, monter, and baidu . The hardest to break CAPTCHAs mentioned are those of Yahoo, Hotmail, QQ, Google. Moreover, Ticketmaster's the most expensive...
 
Tags: captcha, diy captcha breakers, malicious parties, service, web service basis, process, directly decode, future customers, decent level
 
 
 
 
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Oklahoma County Social Security numbers online

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2008-03-13 09:46:09 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...accuracy and information sensitivity Does the county have an obligation to notify the residents that were affected by this breach? I think that they do ethically, but after a quick search I was not able to find anything legally binding Past Breaches Unknown
 
Tags: county, county commissioner, county clerks, oklahoma county residents, residents, oklahoma county, social security, court documents, county clerk
 
 
 
 
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Say When - Trusting Log Timestamps

2008-03-23 04:05:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...accuracy of timing the records (and thus your certainly and trust in evidence quality Fourth, syslog forwarder mysteries are plenty: some of the syslog messages will be delayed in transit and the be timestamped by the final recipient daemon, thus completely losing when the event was originally logged. Admittedly, this delayed syslog is rare,...
 
Tags: logs, windows event logs, syslog files, syslog, define logs, syslog-ng, system logs, syslog daemon, time
 
 
 
 
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What if Diebold was bought out by Steve Wynn or Donald Trump?

2008-03-27 02:41:03 by Scott in Scott Wright's Security Views
 
Sadly, some electronic voting machine manufacturers in the USA have been getting some bad press regarding their machines alleged accuracy issues. Martin McKeay put up this post with a mock news video about electronic voting machine risks the other day (click HERE). This could be just the tip of the iceberg. Maybe we could all
 
Tags: mock news video, machine manufacturers, machine risks, bad press, electronic, martin mckeay, accuracy issues, sadly, iceberg
 
 
 
 
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