As a member of the IITRI team that evaluated the Carnivore system, I'd like to point out that the dates of these memos indicate that the mistakes happened while using an earlier version of Carnivore than the one that we evaluated. I'm not trying to downplay the dangers of a device like Carnivore, but simply to point out that the FBI was aware of problems with their device, and was making modifications to it. One of the caveats of the independent review was that our review would only apply to a specific version of Carnivore, as we could not possibly know how changes made after we reviewed it would fix problems, or possibly introduce new ones. The version of the system we reviewed was not baselined until just before the review began.
As a recap of our report, we pointed out that the accuracy of Carnivore collection was highly dependent on the correct setup of the filtering rules. We also pointed out that it was quite easy to make a mistake setting up those rules which would cause an over collection. The memos which were released do not indicate whether the overcollection was due to a filter setup mistake or some other bug that may have existed in a version prior to the one that we tested.
As stated earlier, I am not trying to defend Carnivore, but you must put these documents into context with the time period in which they were produced.
But the orginal writer said that he got a CS degree and can not code, then what good is it?
Uh, I see nothing in the original question that says he can't code. I don't know where you got that from. He does say that he doesn't care if the job he gets is programming or not, just computer related.
The fact that the USA PATRIOT Act gives law enforcement all kinds of new powers is old news. Take a look at the editorial I wrote for SearchSecurity last December.
I fail to understand why this system is all that much better? This box records everything! Yes, each "conversation" is stored encrypted, and supposedly the FBI needs a court order to get the keys. Carnivore on the other hand looks at everything, but only records those things relevant to the court order, as determined by the settings entered into Carnivore. Yes, there is a chance it could be set up wrong, and that was the subject of the many recommendations IITRI made to improve the product. However the stuff that is not recorded by Carnivore can never be recovered, by definition of not being recorded in the first place. There is no opportunity to go back to court to ask for more keys. It has either been recorded or not.
While I am not a big fan of Carnivore, I fail to see how this system protects us any better.
These are local broadcast stations in Chicago and Atlanta respectively, yet they are carried on Cable and (I think) on satellite as well. Why are those two stations different from other local stations? Is it because they are independent as opposed to a network affiliate?
Carnivore sniffs all traffic that passes on the link it is connected to. However, it only stores the data that meets the search criteria that is setup in advance. That search criteria is supposed to match what is contained in the warrant. However, if you read the report that IITRI wrote on Carniovre (of which I am co-author), there is no guarantee that the search criteria is setup correctly. There is no accountability for who setup the search. There is also no chain of custody to prove that the captured data has not been tampered with.
Close to discovering a planet sounds very much to me like close to being pregnant. Either you are or you aren't. Either you've discovered such a planet, or you haven't.
If you read the independent report on Carnivore written by IITRI, you would know that Carnivore ran on a Windows NT box. Net Detector may do the same or similar functions, but it is not Carnivore. I was part of that team that evaluated Carnivore, but I have no idea if the DCS-1000 is the same product, or if they have changed to something different. I also do not know if they incorporated the many suggestions we made. The Justice Department never asked us to look at any follow-on products. For various reasons (none involving Carnivore that I know of), just about all of the evaluation team has left IITRI.
Simply not true. The documents for hiring with my present and prior companies contained such language, and also conflict of interest clauses. I've always added that "Any and all software, systems, ideas and related work developed by Mr. Mencik for his private company, JSweb Technology, remain the property of Mr. Mencik. All work done for JSweb Technology will be done by Mr. Mencik outside of normal working hours for and will not be in competition with nor use any of the resources of."
I have never had any difficulty with any of my employers over this language.
Not very effective. If you do a search just for "scientology", the first reference to a xenu.net page appears on the eigth page of results. However, if you note the categories appearing on the first page, one of them is "Society > Religion and Spirituality > Opposing Views > Scientology". If you click through that link, Operation Clambake (URL http://www.xenu.net) is the first page listed.
Actually, this is no different than being at a live auction and not jumping in until the auctioneer says "going twice". It's called not tipping your hand, and is what most smart bidders do. While earlier bids of the same amount take precidence, and I may lose an item or two this way, remember that I'm bidding the max I'm willing to pay anyway. If I get it, great. If I don't, oh well. If you don't approach auctions with this type of attitude, you'll spend way too much money in the long run. All those, "What's another $5.00" add up after a while. Buying at auction takes discipline to do well.
Don't make the limit too short, or your bid won't make it in at all! You need some time for it to get from your machine to eBay's and get processed before the time runs out. I sometimes have to up it 15 seconds due to network congestion.
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You should use Winning Bid Pro to do the last minute bidding for you. I use it all the time. Just set up the bid you are willing to make and have it send it in 10 seconds before the auction ends. That way you don't drive the price up ahead of time. Sometimes someone has a max bid higher than yours, or is using a bidding program the same as you and you get beat. But, you put in the max amount you were willing to pay, right? You win some, you lose some. With Winning Bid Pro, you'll win more. By the way, the program is free, I didn't write it, and get no money for praising it.
This is exactly why you should always use your credit card for payment. And I don't mean through PayPal or BillPoint. If the seller has that high a feedback, and a legitimate business, he should have his own merchant account to process the credit card payment. If you haven't received your goods within the 60 days after your statement arrives, simply dispute the charges, and you won't lose anything.
Hey, Note the 7 minute time difference. So I type slowly, spell check my message, and verify my links. Honestly, I did not see the other post before I submitted mine. I first saw the megway site a few weeks ago and thought my post would be informative and funny. Obviously the other poster did too. They just beat me to it by a few minutes.
Sheesh!
Not all Creationists discount evolution, at least not completely. I know that I am completely convinced that microevolution (changes within a species) is a scientifically provable fact. What I have never seen is scientific evidence of macroevolution (a change from one species to another, or two separate species evolving from one). While there are many theroies on that subject, they all rely on some "missing link" that hasn't yet been found. I'm not convinced that it ever will.
As for the Big Bang vs. 6000-8000 years ago being wished into existence, I'm not sure one can't make a case for both Big Bang and Creation. After all, who can say what a "day" was in the Biblical account of creation? Remember that Moses wrote the book of Genesis long after creation, inspired by what God told him to write. In terms of infinity, what's a few million or billion years vs. 24 hours? I think it is quite possible to reconcile the Biblical account of creation with scientifically proven facts. It is simply some of the unproven theories that I don't agree with.
Without the program guide data the machine cannot get you season passes to you favorite shows, it can't give you an on screen display of whats playing on the other channels right now, it can't even name the stuff you've recorded automatically (so you've got to pick what show you want to watch from a list of dates and times)
That doesn't seem so terrible to me. I was under the impression that you needed to subscribe to their service to even get the box to record anything. At least all their advertising led me to think that. Since I had no desire to pay for their monthly service, I'll admit that I did not even check much further.
It is this ability to collect data (along with the monthly fee) that has kept me from the digital VCRs. What I don't understand is why someone has not marketed a digital video recording system that does not require a phone line hook up? Why can't we have digital video recording in a stand-alone box like the analog recorders? Why not be able to record the digital signal to tape (or CD or DVD) and be able to trade with friends? Oh yeah, we might deprive the broadcasters, advertisers, etc. from all that money they can make by charging us monthly fees.
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As a member of the IITRI team that evaluated the Carnivore system, I'd like to point out that the dates of these memos indicate that the mistakes happened while using an earlier version of Carnivore than the one that we evaluated. I'm not trying to downplay the dangers of a device like Carnivore, but simply to point out that the FBI was aware of problems with their device, and was making modifications to it. One of the caveats of the independent review was that our review would only apply to a specific version of Carnivore, as we could not possibly know how changes made after we reviewed it would fix problems, or possibly introduce new ones. The version of the system we reviewed was not baselined until just before the review began.
As a recap of our report, we pointed out that the accuracy of Carnivore collection was highly dependent on the correct setup of the filtering rules. We also pointed out that it was quite easy to make a mistake setting up those rules which would cause an over collection. The memos which were released do not indicate whether the overcollection was due to a filter setup mistake or some other bug that may have existed in a version prior to the one that we tested.
As stated earlier, I am not trying to defend Carnivore, but you must put these documents into context with the time period in which they were produced.
But the orginal writer said that he got a CS degree and can not code, then what good is it?
Uh, I see nothing in the original question that says he can't code. I don't know where you got that from. He does say that he doesn't care if the job he gets is programming or not, just computer related.
The fact that the USA PATRIOT Act gives law enforcement all kinds of new powers is old news. Take a look at the editorial I wrote for SearchSecurity last December.
I fail to understand why this system is all that much better? This box records everything! Yes, each "conversation" is stored encrypted, and supposedly the FBI needs a court order to get the keys. Carnivore on the other hand looks at everything, but only records those things relevant to the court order, as determined by the settings entered into Carnivore. Yes, there is a chance it could be set up wrong, and that was the subject of the many recommendations IITRI made to improve the product. However the stuff that is not recorded by Carnivore can never be recovered, by definition of not being recorded in the first place. There is no opportunity to go back to court to ask for more keys. It has either been recorded or not.
While I am not a big fan of Carnivore, I fail to see how this system protects us any better.
I graduated from GT in 1981, and the ratio was 10 guys to every gal. 73/27 sounds like decent odds compared to then!
These are local broadcast stations in Chicago and Atlanta respectively, yet they are carried on Cable and (I think) on satellite as well. Why are those two stations different from other local stations? Is it because they are independent as opposed to a network affiliate?
Carnivore sniffs all traffic that passes on the link it is connected to. However, it only stores the data that meets the search criteria that is setup in advance. That search criteria is supposed to match what is contained in the warrant. However, if you read the report that IITRI wrote on Carniovre (of which I am co-author), there is no guarantee that the search criteria is setup correctly. There is no accountability for who setup the search. There is also no chain of custody to prove that the captured data has not been tampered with.
Close to discovering a planet sounds very much to me like close to being pregnant. Either you are or you aren't. Either you've discovered such a planet, or you haven't.
Also, note the correct spelling of "does".
If you read the independent report on Carnivore written by IITRI, you would know that Carnivore ran on a Windows NT box. Net Detector may do the same or similar functions, but it is not Carnivore. I was part of that team that evaluated Carnivore, but I have no idea if the DCS-1000 is the same product, or if they have changed to something different. I also do not know if they incorporated the many suggestions we made. The Justice Department never asked us to look at any follow-on products. For various reasons (none involving Carnivore that I know of), just about all of the evaluation team has left IITRI.
Simply not true. The documents for hiring with my present and prior companies contained such language, and also conflict of interest clauses. I've always added that "Any and all software, systems, ideas and related work developed by Mr. Mencik for his private company, JSweb Technology, remain the property of Mr. Mencik. All work done for JSweb Technology will be done by Mr. Mencik outside of normal working hours for and will not be in competition with nor use any of the resources of ."
I have never had any difficulty with any of my employers over this language.
Not very effective. If you do a search just for "scientology", the first reference to a xenu.net page appears on the eigth page of results. However, if you note the categories appearing on the first page, one of them is "Society > Religion and Spirituality > Opposing Views > Scientology". If you click through that link, Operation Clambake (URL http://www.xenu.net) is the first page listed.
Then you'll have access to many more TLD's. If enough people support AlterNIC and "enhanced DNS" it will make ICANN irrelevant.
They've been found guilty. Twice.
I guess we need 1 more conviction before the 3 strikes law takes effect!
Actually, this is no different than being at a live auction and not jumping in until the auctioneer says "going twice". It's called not tipping your hand, and is what most smart bidders do. While earlier bids of the same amount take precidence, and I may lose an item or two this way, remember that I'm bidding the max I'm willing to pay anyway. If I get it, great. If I don't, oh well. If you don't approach auctions with this type of attitude, you'll spend way too much money in the long run. All those, "What's another $5.00" add up after a while. Buying at auction takes discipline to do well.
My favorite by far was the Duck Dodgers series of cartoons done by Chuck Jones.
We'll miss you Chuck!
Don't make the limit too short, or your bid won't make it in at all! You need some time for it to get from your machine to eBay's and get processed before the time runs out. I sometimes have to up it 15 seconds due to network congestion.
You should use Winning Bid Pro to do the last minute bidding for you. I use it all the time. Just set up the bid you are willing to make and have it send it in 10 seconds before the auction ends. That way you don't drive the price up ahead of time. Sometimes someone has a max bid higher than yours, or is using a bidding program the same as you and you get beat. But, you put in the max amount you were willing to pay, right? You win some, you lose some. With Winning Bid Pro, you'll win more.
By the way, the program is free, I didn't write it, and get no money for praising it.
This is exactly why you should always use your credit card for payment. And I don't mean through PayPal or BillPoint. If the seller has that high a feedback, and a legitimate business, he should have his own merchant account to process the credit card payment. If you haven't received your goods within the 60 days after your statement arrives, simply dispute the charges, and you won't lose anything.
Hey, Note the 7 minute time difference. So I type slowly, spell check my message, and verify my links. Honestly, I did not see the other post before I submitted mine. I first saw the megway site a few weeks ago and thought my post would be informative and funny. Obviously the other poster did too. They just beat me to it by a few minutes. Sheesh!
Why waste your money on the "Segway" when you can have a Megway instead? Personally, I like upcoming "MegRyan" model.
Not all Creationists discount evolution, at least not completely. I know that I am completely convinced that microevolution (changes within a species) is a scientifically provable fact. What I have never seen is scientific evidence of macroevolution (a change from one species to another, or two separate species evolving from one). While there are many theroies on that subject, they all rely on some "missing link" that hasn't yet been found. I'm not convinced that it ever will.
As for the Big Bang vs. 6000-8000 years ago being wished into existence, I'm not sure one can't make a case for both Big Bang and Creation. After all, who can say what a "day" was in the Biblical account of creation? Remember that Moses wrote the book of Genesis long after creation, inspired by what God told him to write. In terms of infinity, what's a few million or billion years vs. 24 hours? I think it is quite possible to reconcile the Biblical account of creation with scientifically proven facts. It is simply some of the unproven theories that I don't agree with.
Without the program guide data the machine cannot get you season passes to you favorite shows, it can't give you an on screen display of whats playing on the other channels right now, it can't even name the stuff you've recorded automatically (so you've got to pick what show you want to watch from a list of dates and times)
That doesn't seem so terrible to me. I was under the impression that you needed to subscribe to their service to even get the box to record anything. At least all their advertising led me to think that. Since I had no desire to pay for their monthly service, I'll admit that I did not even check much further.
It is this ability to collect data (along with the monthly fee) that has kept me from the digital VCRs. What I don't understand is why someone has not marketed a digital video recording system that does not require a phone line hook up? Why can't we have digital video recording in a stand-alone box like the analog recorders? Why not be able to record the digital signal to tape (or CD or DVD) and be able to trade with friends? Oh yeah, we might deprive the broadcasters, advertisers, etc. from all that money they can make by charging us monthly fees.
If they achieve transparent concrete (not likely IMNSHO), then people that live in transparent (glass) houses WOULD be able to throw stones!
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