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Fighting Terrorists Through Software, Anonymously?
Silwenae writes "MSNBC has a story online from this week's Newsweek about Jeff Jonas, founder of System Research and Development. SRD's software attempts to verify a person is who he says he is, and then tries to determine who that person may be connected with. Originally used in casinos, the CIA has invested in SRD for use in the war against terrorism. Apparently, Jonas has developed a system that can anonymize the data being analyzed through hashing, so the government can share this information with the private sector to look for hits, without the private sector seeing the specific data."
then tries to determine who that person may be connected with.
Does this software detect siamese twins?
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
"so the government can share this information with the private sector"
Great, so now we have to worry about cash-strapped government departments selling our personal data to spammers too.
'Don't worry' said the trees when they saw the axe coming, 'The handle is one of us.'
If you want to end terrorism then end linux.
/sbin/shutdown -h now
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Thanks for the tip, I'm sure glad I could do my part to fight terr
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
How can I get on that list?
everyone will be connected with Bush andBin Laden....
...and he grinned, like a fox eating shit out of a wire brush.
In other news, CIA decided to change /etc/shadow permissions to 644.
We asked about this move
Jeff Jonas, founder of System Research and Development, who introduced this novel idea to CIA.
His response was to use MD5 ("MD4's successor,"
he explains), a system that "anonymizes" data by an encryption technique called hashing. Because the data are scrambled, our passwords can be shared with terrorists and script kiddies, all without fear--because they can't be read.
"Who's Alec Muffet? Brute-what? I have no more comments," he added after hearing some questions from the audience.
Sincerely,
Pan Tarhei Hosé, PhD.
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About a year ago I came up with this song.
Now I'm going to sing it.
Puff the Nuclear Weapon
Puff the Nuclear Weapon was pointed at Iraq,
and waited in his submarine for the signal to attack.
Little George Bush Junior, he loved that rascal puff,
and all those days, he nightly prayed for the UN to get tough.
oh
Puff the Nuclear Weapon lived in the sea,
protecting all our freedoms to
a brand new SUV.
Puff the Nuclear Weapon lived in the sea,
protecting all our freedoms to
a brand new SUV.
Now Puff he liked to travel, so he wore travelling clothes
While Bush was home and on the phone, from locations undisclosed.
Presidents and Princes, they bowed when'ere he came,
and Nation States lowered their flags when Puff roared out his name.
oh
Puff the Nuclear Weapon defender of the peace,
securing the world's oil supply
and the occasional golden fleece.
Puff the Nuclear Weapon defender of the peace,
securing the world's oil supply
and hte occasional golden fleece.
Plutonium lasts for ever, but not so little boys.
ICBMs and M-16s give way to... other toys.
And one grey day it happened: The traders broke the Dow.
So Puff the Nuclear Weapon's on the open market now.
His warhead packed in plastic, green crates that bore his name.
Poor Puff would not intimidate for the Stars and Stripes again.
Without his life long friend, poor puff could not be brave,
so al-Qaida hid that that weapon in a deep, dark, man-made cave.
oh
Puff the Nuclear Weapon lived in the sea,
but now he's in a backpack
some where close to you and me.
Puff the Nuclear Weapon defender of the free,
and you can blame it all upon
Bush fiscal policy.
Sorry if I've just raised your subversion quotient for having read this. but hey, we're slashdotters so that means we're all pretty much under suspicion of being a little odd anyway.
They need to call it "Fiendster".
I predict the next technology that will be used to find terrorists will be dowsing rods.
Oh wait...
"Trademarks are the heraldry of the new feudalism."