.. and you'll void your warranty at best and break the machine at worst (the copiers are designed not to work if the watermark circuitry is disabled).
Not easy, but it could be done. You would need a replacement board/chip that produced bogus data. Don't remove the watermark, just make it meaningless.
Combine it with a good scanner and the right software and you could even take a document form another copier, figure out it's secret code and set yours to impersonate. Just the availability of such a thing would make the watermarks much less useful in court (IANAL).
Just need someone to leak the stats for one of these...
Did anyone else notice that you needed service pack 6a AND a hotfix? Seems to me this means that before those fixes MS was failing the test.
I for one had thought that MS had just given up on C2 for NT4, but apparently they were trying for all these years. Wow.
They also never said that it had passed. Windows NT 4.0 has been evaluated at the C2 level in six different configurations They never say they got it passed (they do point out that passing would involve evaluation of physical security and administration proceedures).
The problem is not the profiling: that's normal prudence. I desperately wish that someone had realized just how dark my world was and tried to help. I wish they would have locked me up in a mental institution and some of what was going on in my home would have come out
Perhaps you were a case where this profile would have worked. But how many people will it finger as "dangerous" who are not?
Your average serial killer is a young (20s-30s), single, white male, who is described by his neighbors and those who know him as "quiet" and a "nice guy".
Should we start harassing everyone who fits the profile?
Law enforcement developed profiles to help them in investigations of crimes which had already been committed. The idea was to take a bunch of people that COULD have done it, and narrow them down to ones who were more likely to have done it. They would then investigate those and when they found physical evidence they could prosecute.
How does that apply here? No crime has been committed. They are trying to finger people who they think might commit a crime in the future. Profiles by their very nature will apply to a lot more people than commit the crimes - and now educators will be acting against ALL those people.
What percentage of students commit violent crimes in schools? Fractions of a percent? hundredths? Thousandths? What percentage will be matched by this profile?
I know I would have been, and I was no threat. (Unless you count being a lousy driver...)
Now I go to Georgia Tech, with 10s of thousands of students, and there really is no sense of community at all. I have a few pals from high school and some I know from various other things, but other than that, I haven't met but a couple of people. Its big and unfriendly and businesslike.
I go to Texas A&M, with ~40k students. Somehow they've managed to keep some sense of community. Largely by means of shared experience - everyone does 2 days of new student orientation. 3 days of hazing at "Fish Camp" is almost mandatory. Everyone funnels through the same huge classes their first year - although engineering tends to separate from business. Traditions that people participate in - yell practice, silver taps, muster, and yes - bonfire.
I think the shared experience is what gives the sense of community - If the other readers of slashdot were all ags I'd have an idea of them. Of course, members of the corps of cadets are usually jerks, residents of Walton hall tend to be rowdy, etc - but you have an idea of the mix.
Calling bulleting boards (and yes, running my own) you had shared experience from living in the same city. Everyone had been to Zilker park, you all knew about the construction on Congress Avenue, and you could meaningfully share tips about the best pizza places - because your readers could all go there without using an airline.
Online we give tips about what motherboards to buy, which video cards are crap, and whether anyone else has had a problem with linux kernel 2.2.10 showing signs of a memory leak (anyone?). I don't know if it's possible to create a strong sense of community in a forum open to literally the entire world, but I do know that if I can't get an account under either of my two handles, it's probably got too many people (hello misanthrope and lux! you beat me to it.).
I would suggest that this naming scheme should use names which are easy to type and remember rather than ones which are repetitive and formal. "srv001" through "srv999" might look nice and orderly, but in fact is much harder to remember and type than "rivers" or "cartoon characters" or "80's arcade games".
we got that problem here. servers have creative names, but workstations are "mscpc01"..."mscpc99". We actually print out names of Star Wars planets and tape them to the monitors of computers in the lab. Makes it even more confusing when you have to ask "What pc number is Dosha? I need to ping it..."
Thank god the servers are mostly named for fairy tales (robin-hood,little-john,charlotte) but even that is being set aside for strict functional names (we just added ftp and www, although ftp mainly gets used for ssh access from outside our firewall, and web pages are also served from charlotte, ljohn, rhood and mscpcweb. ack.)
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.. and you'll void your warranty at best and break the machine at worst (the copiers are designed not to work if the watermark circuitry is disabled).
Not easy, but it could be done. You would need a replacement board/chip that produced bogus data. Don't remove the watermark, just make it meaningless.
Combine it with a good scanner and the right software and you could even take a document form another copier, figure out it's secret code and set yours to impersonate. Just the availability of such a thing would make the watermarks much less useful in court (IANAL).
Just need someone to leak the stats for one of these...
Did anyone else notice that you needed service pack 6a AND a hotfix? Seems to me this means that before those fixes MS was failing the test.
I for one had thought that MS had just given up on C2 for NT4, but apparently they were trying for all these years. Wow.
They also never said that it had passed. Windows NT 4.0 has been evaluated at the C2 level in six different configurations They never say they got it passed (they do point out that passing would involve evaluation of physical security and administration proceedures).
The TPEP Evaluated products by vendor page only shows NT 3.5. Perhaps it hasn't been updated yet.
The problem is not the profiling: that's normal prudence. I desperately wish that someone had realized just how dark my world was and tried to help. I wish they would have locked me up in a mental institution and some of what was going on in my home would have come out
Perhaps you were a case where this profile would have worked. But how many people will it finger as "dangerous" who are not?
Your average serial killer is a young (20s-30s), single, white male, who is described by his neighbors and those who know him as "quiet" and a "nice guy".
Should we start harassing everyone who fits the profile?
Law enforcement developed profiles to help them in investigations of crimes which had already been committed. The idea was to take a bunch of people that COULD have done it, and narrow them down to ones who were more likely to have done it. They would then investigate those and when they found physical evidence they could prosecute.
How does that apply here? No crime has been committed. They are trying to finger people who they think might commit a crime in the future. Profiles by their very nature will apply to a lot more people than commit the crimes - and now educators will be acting against ALL those people.
What percentage of students commit violent crimes in schools? Fractions of a percent? hundredths? Thousandths? What percentage will be matched by this profile?
I know I would have been, and I was no threat. (Unless you count being a lousy driver...)
Now I go to Georgia Tech, with 10s of thousands of students, and there really is no sense of community at all. I have a few pals from high school and some I know from various other things, but other than that, I haven't met but a couple of people. Its big and unfriendly and businesslike.
I go to Texas A&M, with ~40k students. Somehow they've managed to keep some sense of community. Largely by means of shared experience - everyone does 2 days of new student orientation. 3 days of hazing at "Fish Camp" is almost mandatory. Everyone funnels through the same huge classes their first year - although engineering tends to separate from business. Traditions that people participate in - yell practice, silver taps, muster, and yes - bonfire.
I think the shared experience is what gives the sense of community - If the other readers of slashdot were all ags I'd have an idea of them. Of course, members of the corps of cadets are usually jerks, residents of Walton hall tend to be rowdy, etc - but you have an idea of the mix.
Calling bulleting boards (and yes, running my own) you had shared experience from living in the same city. Everyone had been to Zilker park, you all knew about the construction on Congress Avenue, and you could meaningfully share tips about the best pizza places - because your readers could all go there without using an airline.
Online we give tips about what motherboards to buy, which video cards are crap, and whether anyone else has had a problem with linux kernel 2.2.10 showing signs of a memory leak (anyone?). I don't know if it's possible to create a strong sense of community in a forum open to literally the entire world, but I do know that if I can't get an account under either of my two handles, it's probably got too many people (hello misanthrope and lux! you beat me to it.).
I would suggest that this naming scheme should use names which are easy to type and remember rather than ones which are repetitive and formal. "srv001" through "srv999" might look nice and orderly, but in fact is much harder to remember and type than "rivers" or "cartoon characters" or "80's arcade games".
we got that problem here. servers have creative names, but workstations are "mscpc01"..."mscpc99". We actually print out names of Star Wars planets and tape them to the monitors of computers in the lab. Makes it even more confusing when you have to ask "What pc number is Dosha? I need to ping it..."
Thank god the servers are mostly named for fairy tales (robin-hood,little-john,charlotte) but even that is being set aside for strict functional names (we just added ftp and www, although ftp mainly gets used for ssh access from outside our firewall, and web pages are also served from charlotte, ljohn, rhood and mscpcweb. ack.)