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Researchers Create Highly Predictive Blacklists
Grablets writes "Using a link analysis algorithm similar to Google PageRank, researchers at the SANS Institute and SRI International have created a new Internet network defense service that rethinks the way network blacklists are formulated and distributed. The service, called Highly Predictive Blacklisting, exploits the relationships between networks that have been attacked by similar Internet sources as a means for predicting which attack sources are likely to attack which networks in the future. A free experimental version is currently available."
so this is kind of like banning niggers from your jewlery store because they always try to rob the joint amirite?
In other news it is now legal to convict a "criminal" before they have done the crime, on the basis of a prediction. (He had shifty eyes your honour. He must be guilty.)
The problem with ANY "predictive" statistics (like racial profiling, for one glaring example) is that even when they become accurate enough to produce useful information, they tend to produce too many false positives.
was in the Boston-area news today pushing a MA state bill that would force annutity-selling insurance companies to pay equal retirement benefits to women as they do to men. Presently, the companies pay less to women for equal dollars put into the plan because an average woman is expected to live longer than an average man.
Cunt punt
Everyones a troll, I just have the balls to admit it!
Cause I come from the QuakeWorld days, and HPB means High Ping Bastard to me.