There are procedures for handling drives when conducting forensic examinations. Any examiner worth their salt would do the following:
1. document their receiving of the drive, tag it, and photograph it
2. bring it to their secure test bench and remove the physical drive from its enclosure
3. connect the physical drive to a write blocker
4. begin imaging the drive to 2 separate drives just to make sure you have a valid copy (dd is an acceptable tool and is preferred)
5. compute a hash of the data on the original drive
6. compute a hash of the images that were created
7. disconnect the original drive
8. put the original drive back into its enclosure
9. lock the original drive up in the evidence locker with the computed hash of the drive
10. document what was done
11. Begin work on trying to decrypt one of the images using known hardware. If you screw it up you clone from the other copy you made
12. document what was done.
Also to further prevent questions about the handling of the drive steps 2-9 would likely be recorded so that it can be shown that there wasn't tampering. At this point your deadmans' switch means nothing as they will be working with forensic copies of the data. A process like this needs to be repeatable and expect the defense to attempt to question everything you did if you find something so you better use widely available tools and common accepted practices for this or be able to explain in detail what you did, how it works and why you did it. Also expect the defense to also pull an image of the drive using their forensic experts and they will also compute hashes so you better hope the drive isn't damaged by your activities. There is all sorts of procedures for handling equipment to ensure that it hasn't been tampered with or damaged that you will also need to follow. Yes I know a fair amount about this as I took a computer forensics class (a real semester long course for real college credit and not some bullshit seminar) a while back at one of the local universities that was populated mostly with current or future cops. It was a fascinating course.
For example, if the police comes to your home with a search warrant, you have to assist them by opening the door.
I don't believe that is the case. I believe that they can just bust down the door if they want. Also I believe that I am not allowed to interfere with their search while they are executing a warrant. Similar situation for keys or combination to a safe, they can ask, I could tell them to piss off, they then rummage through my shit looking for it or go get a drill. Then again IANAL so what do I know but am fascinated by the law.
I have a cousin who went to one of those schools (Brandeis) a few years back for his degree in economics. His parents (a teacher and a physical therapist) didn't pay a dime. I didn't know about theses schools' policies towards qualified but middle class people until I asked his parents how they could afford it as ~$50k per year is a huge chunk of their post tax income. This cousin is 18 years younger than I am so I was curious because I have young kids and wanted to know what school cost so I knew how screwed I was going to be. That said it looks like the 4 options for getting a college education are:
1. Be rich so money doesn't matter
2. Join the US military and potentially get shot at
3. Get accepted to an elite school and be subsidized by #1
4. Milk community colleges and high school post secondary programs for as much as you can and work your ass off to pay for a state school
5. Go into hock for the rest of your life
For #2 there are some really good ways to manipulate that system that I have found out from some of my military (current and former) friends and their hate of the young double butters. For the biggest benefit become an Eagle Scout first (gets you promoted higher right out of basic ahead of the others who joined with you), join the guard/reserves at age 17, then get into college and go ROTC. When you start ROTC you will likely get promoted again in the reserves/guard at this point as well putting you ahead of your peers. You then get your commission at age 22 but you already have ~5 years of military experience but with all that other stuff you won't be an O1 so would be an O2 (first lieutenant) or more likely an O3 (captain). You then have to put in I believe 6 years as an officer if a commission is available, because you already have 5 years experience you will move way a head in the line. By the time you finish you commission you will now have about 11 years into the military so why not go the extra 9 and get a full officer's pension at age 37. Also the military will pay for college while you are in so you can continue to work on more advanced degrees for free. Toss in the tuition and stipend that you are paid for school as well as your military pay for that time and it is a pretty good deal if you don't have to go get shot at the first few years.
To some extent yes, but when there has been a 4x increase in cost and the state use to cover about 1/2 of the cost before even accounting for inflation the numbers don't work. For tuition to have gone up as much as it has the school would not have to be paying the state money now. Instead of retyping out that example I will just link to it. The time span was about 17 years and tuition use to be in the $40-$50 per credit range now it is about $180/credit and the state of Minnesota is still subsidizing higher education at the state colleges and universities so it really doesn't add up.
At that price it would likely be more than the professor would be making at a university as well. Typically when I was in college you typically spent 16 hours in class/lab a week for 8 months of the year. Here one would expect 40 hours of education a week for 12 months of the year (well maybe 11) so it seems like it would be substantially more beneficial.
If you want the free experience that you get in Germany then go to your local community college.
While that use to be the case it no longer is. Over the past year and a half I took 3 courses at one of the local technical colleges that is part of the MNSCU system. The system has 2 tuition tiers, the 4 year university plus advanced degrees schools tier, and the community and technical college tier. The community/technical college tier is substantially cheaper (about half) per credit than the university tier but it is by no means cheap like it use to be. For example 17 years ago I paid just under $100/credit at a state university in that system. Last fall I paid about $180 per credit at a technical school in that same system. While that may not seem like much of a difference it actually is consider that 17 years ago I would have paid $40-$50 per credit at that same technical school. So over the last 17 years tuition has risen by close to 4x the cost but even in inflation adjusted dollars it would still be around 3x the cost. To make matters worse most of the people who would benefit from the additional education have only seen a ~40% wage increase ($5 something an hour to now $7 something an hour) and that doesn't take into account inflation. The American higher education system is broken when it comes to costs.
I was thinking of trading pellet count for additional range by jumping up from standard bird shot to BB or buck shot. Also a 10 gauge shell would have more pellets than a 12 gauge. The shot size problem is overcome by it being an automatic weapon and just pray and spray
At 20mm why not just make it a belt fed automatic 10 gauge shotgun pumping out some BB shot or maybe up to some 000 buckshot. For small things like this it seem like any small consumer drone would be easily dealt with more effectively instead of using a 20mm cannon since you have a bit more spray in the pray 'n spray.
Hey Men in Tights was some quality parody work. Granted it isn't Mel Brooks's greatest work but there are very few movies are Blazing Saddles or Young Frankenstein quality.
The irony is that The Matrix's success/cult following took them quite by surprise.
It took a lot of other people by surprise. The posters and advertisements made it looks like a standard special effects showcase with a plot about as deep as a kid wading pool. Some friends and I were going to the movies thinking of seeing one film that looked like it was suppose to be pretty good and found out that it wasn't out yet and we had seen all the other movies that were out that we wanted to so we decided to give it a try and went in expecting a crap story that was little better than a romantic comedy but with fun action (brain melt is fun if that is what you expect, I liked the Expendables for what it was).
Personally I would like it to be $10 per record paid to the person who the record is on. If it record contained some critical info like SSN or last 4 digits of SSN then make it $1000 per record. Granted those values don't actually cover the cost of the impacted individual in dealing with these situations (hey we leaked your SSN, mother's maiden name, and first pet's name so now you get to deal with fraud committed by others for the rest of your fucking life) but it would go a long way to ensuring that companies take some measures to actually protect personal data.
Unfortunately I do understand and realize that what most likely will happen is that any evidence collected wont be used in court or will be used in parallel construction to get what they want. This year there is going to be another push from the likes of the FBI, CIA, etc. to get the laws changed on encryption just like they have been doing for the past couple of years. With the media circus that is Trump they might actually succeed in getting what they want. Here is what congress knows about encryption and while reasonably unbiased there still is the pro state slant in it. Also there is this document that came out at the end of last year that I missed that has some more details on the questions and what congress should be thinking about in regards to encryption.
Well it was already disclosed that nothing of value was found on the San Bernardino iPhone so it doesn't matter at this point anyway for that case. As you point out if the tool is used in other cases and there is some juicy bit of evidence found any flaw in the tool will be used to discredit it. The longer that is put off the better chance to get convictions based off of evidence produced by the tool.
I wonder if this is part of the "adult conversation" about encryption that FBI director James Comey mentioned last year that he was preparing to have this year. Also when ever mentioning that fucking iPhone it should also be pointed out that nothing of value was found on it. This way it becomes clear that encryption wasn't something that hampered the case in any way so they can't trot out that old saw to try and make their case against the public having access to strong encryption.
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There are procedures for handling drives when conducting forensic examinations. Any examiner worth their salt would do the following:
1. document their receiving of the drive, tag it, and photograph it
2. bring it to their secure test bench and remove the physical drive from its enclosure
3. connect the physical drive to a write blocker
4. begin imaging the drive to 2 separate drives just to make sure you have a valid copy (dd is an acceptable tool and is preferred)
5. compute a hash of the data on the original drive
6. compute a hash of the images that were created
7. disconnect the original drive
8. put the original drive back into its enclosure
9. lock the original drive up in the evidence locker with the computed hash of the drive
10. document what was done
11. Begin work on trying to decrypt one of the images using known hardware. If you screw it up you clone from the other copy you made
12. document what was done.
Also to further prevent questions about the handling of the drive steps 2-9 would likely be recorded so that it can be shown that there wasn't tampering. At this point your deadmans' switch means nothing as they will be working with forensic copies of the data. A process like this needs to be repeatable and expect the defense to attempt to question everything you did if you find something so you better use widely available tools and common accepted practices for this or be able to explain in detail what you did, how it works and why you did it. Also expect the defense to also pull an image of the drive using their forensic experts and they will also compute hashes so you better hope the drive isn't damaged by your activities. There is all sorts of procedures for handling equipment to ensure that it hasn't been tampered with or damaged that you will also need to follow. Yes I know a fair amount about this as I took a computer forensics class (a real semester long course for real college credit and not some bullshit seminar) a while back at one of the local universities that was populated mostly with current or future cops. It was a fascinating course.
For example, if the police comes to your home with a search warrant, you have to assist them by opening the door.
I don't believe that is the case. I believe that they can just bust down the door if they want. Also I believe that I am not allowed to interfere with their search while they are executing a warrant. Similar situation for keys or combination to a safe, they can ask, I could tell them to piss off, they then rummage through my shit looking for it or go get a drill. Then again IANAL so what do I know but am fascinated by the law.
I have a cousin who went to one of those schools (Brandeis) a few years back for his degree in economics. His parents (a teacher and a physical therapist) didn't pay a dime. I didn't know about theses schools' policies towards qualified but middle class people until I asked his parents how they could afford it as ~$50k per year is a huge chunk of their post tax income. This cousin is 18 years younger than I am so I was curious because I have young kids and wanted to know what school cost so I knew how screwed I was going to be. That said it looks like the 4 options for getting a college education are:
1. Be rich so money doesn't matter
2. Join the US military and potentially get shot at
3. Get accepted to an elite school and be subsidized by #1
4. Milk community colleges and high school post secondary programs for as much as you can and work your ass off to pay for a state school
5. Go into hock for the rest of your life
For #2 there are some really good ways to manipulate that system that I have found out from some of my military (current and former) friends and their hate of the young double butters. For the biggest benefit become an Eagle Scout first (gets you promoted higher right out of basic ahead of the others who joined with you), join the guard/reserves at age 17, then get into college and go ROTC. When you start ROTC you will likely get promoted again in the reserves/guard at this point as well putting you ahead of your peers. You then get your commission at age 22 but you already have ~5 years of military experience but with all that other stuff you won't be an O1 so would be an O2 (first lieutenant) or more likely an O3 (captain). You then have to put in I believe 6 years as an officer if a commission is available, because you already have 5 years experience you will move way a head in the line. By the time you finish you commission you will now have about 11 years into the military so why not go the extra 9 and get a full officer's pension at age 37. Also the military will pay for college while you are in so you can continue to work on more advanced degrees for free. Toss in the tuition and stipend that you are paid for school as well as your military pay for that time and it is a pretty good deal if you don't have to go get shot at the first few years.
To some extent yes, but when there has been a 4x increase in cost and the state use to cover about 1/2 of the cost before even accounting for inflation the numbers don't work. For tuition to have gone up as much as it has the school would not have to be paying the state money now. Instead of retyping out that example I will just link to it. The time span was about 17 years and tuition use to be in the $40-$50 per credit range now it is about $180/credit and the state of Minnesota is still subsidizing higher education at the state colleges and universities so it really doesn't add up.
At that price it would likely be more than the professor would be making at a university as well. Typically when I was in college you typically spent 16 hours in class/lab a week for 8 months of the year. Here one would expect 40 hours of education a week for 12 months of the year (well maybe 11) so it seems like it would be substantially more beneficial.
If you want the free experience that you get in Germany then go to your local community college.
While that use to be the case it no longer is. Over the past year and a half I took 3 courses at one of the local technical colleges that is part of the MNSCU system. The system has 2 tuition tiers, the 4 year university plus advanced degrees schools tier, and the community and technical college tier. The community/technical college tier is substantially cheaper (about half) per credit than the university tier but it is by no means cheap like it use to be. For example 17 years ago I paid just under $100/credit at a state university in that system. Last fall I paid about $180 per credit at a technical school in that same system. While that may not seem like much of a difference it actually is consider that 17 years ago I would have paid $40-$50 per credit at that same technical school. So over the last 17 years tuition has risen by close to 4x the cost but even in inflation adjusted dollars it would still be around 3x the cost. To make matters worse most of the people who would benefit from the additional education have only seen a ~40% wage increase ($5 something an hour to now $7 something an hour) and that doesn't take into account inflation. The American higher education system is broken when it comes to costs.
I was thinking of trading pellet count for additional range by jumping up from standard bird shot to BB or buck shot. Also a 10 gauge shell would have more pellets than a 12 gauge. The shot size problem is overcome by it being an automatic weapon and just pray and spray
probably
At 20mm why not just make it a belt fed automatic 10 gauge shotgun pumping out some BB shot or maybe up to some 000 buckshot. For small things like this it seem like any small consumer drone would be easily dealt with more effectively instead of using a 20mm cannon since you have a bit more spray in the pray 'n spray.
It could also be interpreted as you love your parents, and your parents are named Lady Gaga and Humpty Dumpty.
And now I'm going to be trying to get the image of that ugly kid out of my head for the rest of the day.
Unfortunately these scam clinics don't have deep enough pockets, if they did there would lawyers line up around the block.
this is why I like /., now I know what the Roche limit is.
#2 (Michigan State University, East Lansing) and #5 (Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX) sure sound like public schools. In looking them up they are actually publicly funded universities.
A sentence like that just makes me want to grab my shotgun and but them out of my misery.
That's why we should be rooting for more original movie content from the likes of Netflix and Amazon.
I would include the likes of HBO as well. Not everything can be great but they are willing to try out something different.
Hey Men in Tights was some quality parody work. Granted it isn't Mel Brooks's greatest work but there are very few movies are Blazing Saddles or Young Frankenstein quality.
The irony is that The Matrix's success/cult following took them quite by surprise.
It took a lot of other people by surprise. The posters and advertisements made it looks like a standard special effects showcase with a plot about as deep as a kid wading pool. Some friends and I were going to the movies thinking of seeing one film that looked like it was suppose to be pretty good and found out that it wasn't out yet and we had seen all the other movies that were out that we wanted to so we decided to give it a try and went in expecting a crap story that was little better than a romantic comedy but with fun action (brain melt is fun if that is what you expect, I liked the Expendables for what it was).
Personally I would like it to be $10 per record paid to the person who the record is on. If it record contained some critical info like SSN or last 4 digits of SSN then make it $1000 per record. Granted those values don't actually cover the cost of the impacted individual in dealing with these situations (hey we leaked your SSN, mother's maiden name, and first pet's name so now you get to deal with fraud committed by others for the rest of your fucking life) but it would go a long way to ensuring that companies take some measures to actually protect personal data.
What about Dick Trickle
I initially read that as Wang Tracker.
I think I may have found a new disposable e-mail address with Wayne Tracker.
Unfortunately I do understand and realize that what most likely will happen is that any evidence collected wont be used in court or will be used in parallel construction to get what they want. This year there is going to be another push from the likes of the FBI, CIA, etc. to get the laws changed on encryption just like they have been doing for the past couple of years. With the media circus that is Trump they might actually succeed in getting what they want. Here is what congress knows about encryption and while reasonably unbiased there still is the pro state slant in it. Also there is this document that came out at the end of last year that I missed that has some more details on the questions and what congress should be thinking about in regards to encryption.
no tau is 2 pie so it is better.
Well it was already disclosed that nothing of value was found on the San Bernardino iPhone so it doesn't matter at this point anyway for that case. As you point out if the tool is used in other cases and there is some juicy bit of evidence found any flaw in the tool will be used to discredit it. The longer that is put off the better chance to get convictions based off of evidence produced by the tool.
I wonder if this is part of the "adult conversation" about encryption that FBI director James Comey mentioned last year that he was preparing to have this year. Also when ever mentioning that fucking iPhone it should also be pointed out that nothing of value was found on it. This way it becomes clear that encryption wasn't something that hampered the case in any way so they can't trot out that old saw to try and make their case against the public having access to strong encryption.