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Woule the Do not Track registry work like the Do not call registry?

2008-04-16 14:21:05 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog
 
...track registry WASHINGTON (Reuters Two consumer groups asked the Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday to create a do not track list that would allow computer users to bar advertisers from collecting information about them
 
Tags: track registry, track, list, call list, federal trade commission, computer users, consumer, bar advertisers, lil
 
 
 
 
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The Seven Habits of Highly Ineffective Terrorists

2008-10-07 05:48:53 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...track record of convincing those civilians to give the terrorists what they want; (2) treat terrorism as a first resort, not a last resort, failing to embrace nonviolent alternatives like elections; (3) don't compromise with their target country, even when those compromises are in their best interest politically; (4) have protean political...
 
Tags: ineffective, highly ineffective terrorists, terrorists, people join, people join hamas, people join al-qaida, terrorist organizations, organizations, al-qaida
 
 
 
 
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The Genesis of Complex Event Processing: Asymmetric Capabilities

2008-09-29 17:31:50 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...track and identify (or sense and respond to) the rockets in real time Therefore, the concept of asymmetrical processing capablities is the situation where there is a capability, such as launch a rocket, sense-and-respond, that is asymmetric in nature. In other words, the capability to detect multiple rocket launches creates an asymmetric...
 
Tags: asymmetric, data, market data stream, complex event, term asymmetric warfare, term asymmetric, distinguishes cep, cep, asymmetric capabilties
 
 
 
 
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Grayware?

2007-03-07 07:11:45 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
 
...track and/or report certain information back to some external source, these applications are usually installed and run without the permission of the user Grayware categories Adware: Adware is usually embedded in freeware applications that users can download and install at no cost. Adware programs are used to load pop-up browser windows to...
 
Tags: grayware, dangerous grayware applications, joke, joke grayware, p2p grayware, toolbar grayware applications, bho grayware applications, applications, toolbar
 
 
 
 
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The Last HOPE List of Talks posted

2008-06-19 16:10:50 by Myrcurial in Liquidmatrix Security Digest
 
...track for unscheduled talks so if you missed this deadline, you still have a shot in the somewhat smaller unscheduled track room. Look for the unscheduled track sign up sheet at the conference Of course youll be able to find Dave and I there. Wouldnt miss it for the world Oh - and you might want to scroll that list of talks down maybe just to...
 
Tags: talks, hope, list, conference, hope conference, track, additional track, track sign, nyc
 
 
 
 
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Modelling Shoplifting

2008-09-07 07:30:15 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...Tracking the behavior of customers movements, by machine, would require some very sophisticated image processing technology that would be too expensive compared to any possible loss at most retails stores. This type of behavioral pattern recognition. in retail stores,is performed by people (security personnel), not machines, observing people...
 
Tags: store, store-object, complex, model canget complex, model, simple, simple economics, simple model, object
 
 
 
 
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Modelling Air Traffic Control

2008-09-08 13:27:26 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...track and trace the position of each aircraft in the area of responsibility (AOR) of a particular control tower/zone. Naturally, sensory information is preprocessed and formatted in such a way that the data can be processed upstream by multiple real-time applications Before we look at complex ATC scenarios, such as potential collision or...
 
Tags: model, crude laymansatc model, state-model, simple atc model, complex, isconsiderable complex event, overly simplistic model, complex event, simple model
 
 
 
 
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The Trouble with Threat Modeling

2007-09-26 19:11:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...track them? Threats arent quite bugsyou can never remove a threat, only mitigate it. So perhaps it didnt make sense to track them like that, but that left threats in a limbo Return on Investment The time invested often didnt seem like it was paying off. Sometimes it really didnt pay off. (David LeBlanc makes this point forcefully in Threat...
 
Tags: threat, threat models, threat model, reasons threat, service threat, term threat, threat effectively, playsound threat model, development process
 
 
 
 
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U.S. Post Office to Enable Wholesale Surveillance of Mail

2008-02-21 06:26:31 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...track mail through the system : With the new bar code, companies will be able to track mail delivery and know when their customers got a bill, solicitation or product, and the Postal Service will have another way of checking that mail is being delivered on time Companies also will be given a chance to buy data collected by the post office...
 
Tags: mail, sends mail, track mail delivery, class mail, post office, track mail, customers respond, customers, news article
 
 
 
 
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SQL Server - Fact Checking Recent Vulnerability History

2008-03-05 22:53:36 by jrjones in Jeff Jones Security Blog
 
...track record up through 2003, the SQL team has certainly turned a corner since then and SQL Server 2005 has had one of the best security track records of any commercial database ever Let me close be re-quoting something I highlighted in a post a little over a year ago from David Litchfield in his paper Which database is more secure? Oracle...
 
Tags: server, claim sql server, sql, sql server team, sql vulnerabilities, vulnerabilities, sql server, vulnerability, sql team