An interesting thread started up on a /. article about how handwriting style “fingerprinting” is easily fooled. Since I made some of the posts, I’m mirroring it here:
amimojo:
This should not really come as a surprise to anyone. Like all evidence that has to be interpreted, the interpretation can be flawed.
Shows like CSI have computers getting [...]
Recent moves by the police to step up hacking people’s PCs (/. article, original Times Online article) and a recent forum thread got me thinking about ways to defend myself against the snooping that the UK seems to love so much.
A quick overview of what we are up against. In the UK the following is [...]
I’ve been thinking about this blog post for a while, and today’s Jeremy Vine show finally prompted me to write it. A council in Shropshire is backtracking on orders to park wardens to stop and quiz adults not accompanied by children, and there was a phone in debate about it. That’s not what the post [...]
The uniqueness of DNA evidence has been brought into question once again by a lab tech in Arizona: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-dna20-2008jul20,0,1506170,full.story
The tech discovered two criminals on the database with remarkably similar DNA, close enough in fact to satisfy a court of a match in most cases. One was white, the other black. She went on to discover [...]
My petition on the 10 Downing Street Petitions web site has just been approved, so please sign it!
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/3partyccs/
Currently, you are not protected by your credit card company when paying for stuff with a credit card using PayPal, which basically means when buying anything with credit card on eBay too.
The problem is that by using PayPal, [...]
The argument that no law abiding citizen should have anything to hide, and so surveillance is okay is a deeply flawed one, but one which seems to be quite powerful and rarely properly debunked.
Many people simply respond with rather extreme cases, demanding answers to questions such as “can I see your credit card records then?” [...]
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I have held off writing this entry for a long time, because I was worried about the response I might get. So, I’ll start by pointing out what I hope should be obvious anyway: I do not support or seek to protect paedophiles. Anyone who abuses children deserves punishment.
The issue at hand is new legislation [...]
Yet again, it looks like a climate of fear and abuse of the Terrorism Act have have lead to an innocent man being imprisoned for six days (via The Guardian).
To summarise, an asian student downloads the Al Qaida training manual for research on his post-graduate course from a US government web site, and it is [...]
Today’s Hack a Day post linked to this article on recovering encryption keys from RAM, so I thought I’d look into defences against this kind of attack.
There are simple ways to defeat this, and although not 100% reliable they are pretty effective.
You have to consider what sort of situation this attack is likely to be [...]