Forensics has to be useful in court. This is not - it's tainted evidence. Now if they took the original disk out, copied it with DD or similar to a file and mounted it as loopback and worked on that, then that's a first start to a forensic analysis.
Statue law would appear to disagree with you....
Unauthorised access to computer material
(1) A person is guilty of an offence if--
(a) he causes a computer to perform any function with intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer;
(b) the access he intends to secure is unauthorised; and
(c) he knows at the time when he causes the computer to perform the function that that is the case.
Since authorisation has not been explicitly given his access is illegal. Note that he doesn't even have to secure access - the mere intent and action to do so is sufficient.
You can't. IF it was automatic and there was no intent to break the law then you have comitted no crime - there has to be both the actual act and the intent for a crime to occur in English common law (with the expection of some offences of strict liability like speeding)
It doesn't actually matter if the station was public accessible, nor if it was even designed that way. If it was accessed with mens rea, ie the *intent* of the person accessing it was that he was doing so illegally then a crime is committed.
Not so. Having been an election agent and a candidate at both local and Parlimentary elections I can say that the UK system is probably the most open. The only correlation is a specific paper handwritten record that correlates an individual ballot paper to a voter. It is not stored electronically, is difficult to search and match up. In addition the ballots are not stored sorted by number. The end result is it is easy to find who owns a ballot - take the ballot number which is issued sequentially and look down the list to find the voter. However it is difficult to find how someone voted - the matching list is not sorted alphabetically and there is no way once you have the number to find the paper bar looking through them all as the ballots are only sorted into who they voted for.
This is doen this way deliberatly to make it very difficult to look up who voted which way, yet make it easier to track back suspicous ballots if needed. (the total number of ballots per station is recorded so a sudden surge in ballots can be used to nail down box stuffing for example)
In additon since all papers are immediately eye readable, the large number of scruinteers at the count from all the candidates parties can easily spot any counting errors, and these are easily resolved at this time if mistakes are made. Since the process is so open it is remarkably robust against abuse, sadly this is less true of postal voting which is where most of the questionable activites seem to occur.
You cannot really draw any conclusions from short term data like that - fundamental difference between climate and weather. Now if we had the data for the first decade and last decade of the 20c that would be different.
But when the children are at school under the care of the school system they are in loco parentis at the time. It would seem to a poor Brit here the case is simple. Are the school responsible for the childrens safety? If so, then it's a school function.
Curies are not a dose - dosage is measured in sieverts. The Wikipedia article fails to appreciate that the specifica activity meantion is over the entire life of the sample, that the sample is biologically eliminated much faster than the half life, and that fatal dose of 4sV has to be a whole body dose, and has to be prompt, not over a time period. I've posted elsewhere the amount needed, but it's more like 3mCi rather than 200uCi
Video camera's have long been used in the UK - there have been entire false fronts with video camera's fitted and a card skimmer as well. It reads the PIN, skims the card and still dispenses you your cash so you are none the wiser. Of course, they can then clone your card and extract money when you are gone.
A lot of ATM's in the UK now have MOTD style warnings "Does this machine look tampered with? Call 0800-123456" or "If you notice anything suspicous about the front of this machine do NOT use it etc."
See http://www.northeastfraudforum.co.uk/atmfraud.asp
I agree, hence the last comment in my OP.
Mind you the UK successfully stopped two large coins and added three more to all it's coin operated machines over the course of a couple of years (the resizing of 5p, 10p, 50p and additional of the £2 coin) so it presumably cannot be that hard provided they run in parallel.
I've actually worked with this stuff.
The permissible body burden for Po-210 which is the amount you can safely carry is 0.03uCi. You can carry that amount safely, just like you can swallow a small lump of coal which will have the same radioactivitly from included thorium and uranium.
The chemical toxicity of Po is unknown, mainly because the radiotoxicity will nail you stone dead first. Inspiration rather than ingestion is worse, as it does more damage in the lungs and takes longer to eliminate than if it were ingested.
Now Litvinenko died within a month or so. That level of radiation poisioning would indicate a large body dosage, probably on the order of 4 to 6 sieverts. Most acute radiation poisioning causes a feeling of being unwell, a week or so of feeling fine - often called with some justifaction the "walking ghost" phase then a final slide into illness and death. The timings indicate a large but not excessive dose. Being as this is internal irradiation from a alpha source things get more complex.
Alpha radiation from Po has a CEDE of 5x10-7 Sv per Bq. Running the numbers gives you something like 12 million Bq or about a three thousandth of a curie - 0.02mg of Po 210. It is a very effective radiological poison.
When visiting the US I hate the currency. In the UK, most people don't look at the numbers on the notes. Blue is £5, brown is £10, purple is £20 and the rare £50 is red.
Easy. Much easier than having to look at the numbers on each greenback. Faster too. As for the sizing, why on earth is this going to be a problem. Do you have that many cash readers that would object? After all most people think cash is dead so there cannot be that many of them around to convert over....and most UK cash readers use the notes size to actually determine the value, once it's scanned the Queens head or whatever it does to authenticate it as a real note.
This is not flamebait although people may not see it that way. I've never understood why the US has bills the same size, being as no other country to my knowledge does it this way (and please correct me if I am wrong). It just seemed perfectly obvious to me that increasing size with increasing value benefits everyone and disadvantages no-one, unless of course you are stuck with a legacy system that you need to change.
That assumes that each car is tied to a person, which it's not and should never be. Also if you do do that then the APNR camera system can track people, not just cars and that's a far bigger issue.
It's a strawman anyway - they make tha argument that this is for catching inunsured drivers and unlicenced drivers. They already have the authority to detain anyone not producing a driving licence, and you can solve the insurance issue by making people display an insurance chit in the windscreen like they do with road tax.
It's purely about tracking and control - make the people accept sumbission to fingerprints on demand in a nice freindly way, then we can roll out the intrusive one in ten years time.....
Of course that is what they said about DNA sampling in the UK. Then when they found out the police had been illegally storing a massive database, they just changed the law to make it legal. At that point with the obvious duplicity of the police I decided there and then I'd just refuse full stop to help them in any way.
They will do the same with the fingerprint checker, I have no doubt of that.
Global dimming either from this or other means (like sulphate aerosols) will only result in less light reaching the surface. Yes it will result in less warming. But also there's less photosynthesis, less crop production, and a reduction in fixation of CO2 from the atmopshere, causing CO2 levels to rise yet further.
Instead of trying to fix the symptoms, we should be trying to fix the underlying problem and that is ceasing to burn carbon. The fix is simple. Replacing it with something else is the real problem and that is where efforts should be focused (like a decent fusion reactor and hydrogen economy but that's a whole new debate)
I've seen people stealing these out of letterboxes before now on our estate. I can't personally think of any other useful reason to pinch a gas bill, unless you've been dumpster diving ot have bought a laptop for £50 with 11 million acount numbers on it....
Since the postie doesn't deliver until midday in many locations, and since it's easy to stick your fingers in a floor level letterbox and fish the mail back out again it's amazing anyone accepts a utility bill as proof of ID. All it is proof you have access to the mailbox of that address.
Indeed. Carrying my DSLR (a Canon 20D) on a hike is relatively easy. It's all the lenses that make it so darn heavy and bulky.....
I settled on a Sigma wide angle 10-22mm which lets me do a trip with just a single lens, but I'm still looking for a good compact point and shoot as backup or more casual digicam.
HE can apply for a proxy vote - he nominates a person who can vote on his behalf. That person may either go with Hawkings ballot card (a ballot card is mailed to EVERY registered voter in the UK in the weeks before an election and that is all you need to take to the polling station with you) and can then cast his vote and then Hawkings vote, or anyone may take a helper with them to the polling station to assist them in voting.
You can vote before your proxy in which case your proxy will be refused a ballot paper as your name will already be crossed off the list. Or you can have a postal vote which is mailed out before the election and you post it back in in time to arrive for election day.
There are various checks to stop abuse such as a person not being permitted to proxy for more than two others etc. Generally it works well.
Well in the UK they are shown to each candidates agents and they decide along with the returning officer.
I've been that agent before. Out of 30,000 votes cast there were two that were ambigous. Since the result was clearly not going to be affected we were happy to have them ruled as spoilt and classed with teh deliberatly spoiled papers (like having the words F*** you all scribbled over them instead of a neat cross)
Works fine over here....
FTA: Though DriveTrust is proprietary....
Not much use unless it's published and described - unless they do that most serious users are going to discount it. I hope it's actually robust though as there will be an awful lot of people relying on this for home use. How many of them are going to have that nice warm fuzzy "I'm safe" feeling and therefore not bother with all the other good things like patching and spyware-awareness etc.
Article Ten of the European Convention of Human Rights explicilty grants it. (and article nine is essentially freedom of religion). http://www.hri.org/docs/ECHR50.html
The ECHR specifically supersedes any existing national laws that it may conflict.
But the point is that even *if* you point this out it doesn't get fixed....
There was a Senator pointed out this same thing months ago - I'm British living in another continent and *I* heard about it, so I'm damn sure NW did.
I've pulled up my (now ex) bank on security issues before and nothing was done about it for months until I posted a box of flyers on their doorstep one morning.
Large companies make a financial decision that it's cheaper to deal with fraud than it is to fix it. This is actually a sound business decision and I cannot fault them for it. When that attitude translates into stuffed credit ratings for your customer however, or security issues on a public transport carrier it becomes reprehensible but the only way to stop them is to make it *cost* them more, and by name and shame you can take their customers away and *make* them listen by hitting the pocketbook.
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Let's hope mine doesn't need some analysis shortly. http://www.chris-street.demon.co.uk/article.php.ht m
Forensics has to be useful in court. This is not - it's tainted evidence. Now if they took the original disk out, copied it with DD or similar to a file and mounted it as loopback and worked on that, then that's a first start to a forensic analysis.
Statue law would appear to disagree with you.... Unauthorised access to computer material (1) A person is guilty of an offence if-- (a) he causes a computer to perform any function with intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer; (b) the access he intends to secure is unauthorised; and (c) he knows at the time when he causes the computer to perform the function that that is the case. Since authorisation has not been explicitly given his access is illegal. Note that he doesn't even have to secure access - the mere intent and action to do so is sufficient.
You can't. IF it was automatic and there was no intent to break the law then you have comitted no crime - there has to be both the actual act and the intent for a crime to occur in English common law (with the expection of some offences of strict liability like speeding)
It doesn't actually matter if the station was public accessible, nor if it was even designed that way. If it was accessed with mens rea, ie the *intent* of the person accessing it was that he was doing so illegally then a crime is committed.
Not so. Having been an election agent and a candidate at both local and Parlimentary elections I can say that the UK system is probably the most open. The only correlation is a specific paper handwritten record that correlates an individual ballot paper to a voter. It is not stored electronically, is difficult to search and match up. In addition the ballots are not stored sorted by number. The end result is it is easy to find who owns a ballot - take the ballot number which is issued sequentially and look down the list to find the voter. However it is difficult to find how someone voted - the matching list is not sorted alphabetically and there is no way once you have the number to find the paper bar looking through them all as the ballots are only sorted into who they voted for. This is doen this way deliberatly to make it very difficult to look up who voted which way, yet make it easier to track back suspicous ballots if needed. (the total number of ballots per station is recorded so a sudden surge in ballots can be used to nail down box stuffing for example) In additon since all papers are immediately eye readable, the large number of scruinteers at the count from all the candidates parties can easily spot any counting errors, and these are easily resolved at this time if mistakes are made. Since the process is so open it is remarkably robust against abuse, sadly this is less true of postal voting which is where most of the questionable activites seem to occur.
You cannot really draw any conclusions from short term data like that - fundamental difference between climate and weather. Now if we had the data for the first decade and last decade of the 20c that would be different.
But when the children are at school under the care of the school system they are in loco parentis at the time. It would seem to a poor Brit here the case is simple. Are the school responsible for the childrens safety? If so, then it's a school function.
Curies are not a dose - dosage is measured in sieverts. The Wikipedia article fails to appreciate that the specifica activity meantion is over the entire life of the sample, that the sample is biologically eliminated much faster than the half life, and that fatal dose of 4sV has to be a whole body dose, and has to be prompt, not over a time period. I've posted elsewhere the amount needed, but it's more like 3mCi rather than 200uCi
Video camera's have long been used in the UK - there have been entire false fronts with video camera's fitted and a card skimmer as well. It reads the PIN, skims the card and still dispenses you your cash so you are none the wiser. Of course, they can then clone your card and extract money when you are gone. A lot of ATM's in the UK now have MOTD style warnings "Does this machine look tampered with? Call 0800-123456" or "If you notice anything suspicous about the front of this machine do NOT use it etc." See http://www.northeastfraudforum.co.uk/atmfraud.asp
I agree, hence the last comment in my OP. Mind you the UK successfully stopped two large coins and added three more to all it's coin operated machines over the course of a couple of years (the resizing of 5p, 10p, 50p and additional of the £2 coin) so it presumably cannot be that hard provided they run in parallel.
I've actually worked with this stuff. The permissible body burden for Po-210 which is the amount you can safely carry is 0.03uCi. You can carry that amount safely, just like you can swallow a small lump of coal which will have the same radioactivitly from included thorium and uranium. The chemical toxicity of Po is unknown, mainly because the radiotoxicity will nail you stone dead first. Inspiration rather than ingestion is worse, as it does more damage in the lungs and takes longer to eliminate than if it were ingested. Now Litvinenko died within a month or so. That level of radiation poisioning would indicate a large body dosage, probably on the order of 4 to 6 sieverts. Most acute radiation poisioning causes a feeling of being unwell, a week or so of feeling fine - often called with some justifaction the "walking ghost" phase then a final slide into illness and death. The timings indicate a large but not excessive dose. Being as this is internal irradiation from a alpha source things get more complex. Alpha radiation from Po has a CEDE of 5x10-7 Sv per Bq. Running the numbers gives you something like 12 million Bq or about a three thousandth of a curie - 0.02mg of Po 210. It is a very effective radiological poison.
When visiting the US I hate the currency. In the UK, most people don't look at the numbers on the notes. Blue is £5, brown is £10, purple is £20 and the rare £50 is red. Easy. Much easier than having to look at the numbers on each greenback. Faster too. As for the sizing, why on earth is this going to be a problem. Do you have that many cash readers that would object? After all most people think cash is dead so there cannot be that many of them around to convert over....and most UK cash readers use the notes size to actually determine the value, once it's scanned the Queens head or whatever it does to authenticate it as a real note. This is not flamebait although people may not see it that way. I've never understood why the US has bills the same size, being as no other country to my knowledge does it this way (and please correct me if I am wrong). It just seemed perfectly obvious to me that increasing size with increasing value benefits everyone and disadvantages no-one, unless of course you are stuck with a legacy system that you need to change.
That assumes that each car is tied to a person, which it's not and should never be. Also if you do do that then the APNR camera system can track people, not just cars and that's a far bigger issue. It's a strawman anyway - they make tha argument that this is for catching inunsured drivers and unlicenced drivers. They already have the authority to detain anyone not producing a driving licence, and you can solve the insurance issue by making people display an insurance chit in the windscreen like they do with road tax. It's purely about tracking and control - make the people accept sumbission to fingerprints on demand in a nice freindly way, then we can roll out the intrusive one in ten years time.....
Of course that is what they said about DNA sampling in the UK. Then when they found out the police had been illegally storing a massive database, they just changed the law to make it legal. At that point with the obvious duplicity of the police I decided there and then I'd just refuse full stop to help them in any way. They will do the same with the fingerprint checker, I have no doubt of that.
And swap caps lock and CTRL back and function keys on the left as well please...
Global dimming either from this or other means (like sulphate aerosols) will only result in less light reaching the surface. Yes it will result in less warming. But also there's less photosynthesis, less crop production, and a reduction in fixation of CO2 from the atmopshere, causing CO2 levels to rise yet further. Instead of trying to fix the symptoms, we should be trying to fix the underlying problem and that is ceasing to burn carbon. The fix is simple. Replacing it with something else is the real problem and that is where efforts should be focused (like a decent fusion reactor and hydrogen economy but that's a whole new debate)
I've seen people stealing these out of letterboxes before now on our estate. I can't personally think of any other useful reason to pinch a gas bill, unless you've been dumpster diving ot have bought a laptop for £50 with 11 million acount numbers on it.... Since the postie doesn't deliver until midday in many locations, and since it's easy to stick your fingers in a floor level letterbox and fish the mail back out again it's amazing anyone accepts a utility bill as proof of ID. All it is proof you have access to the mailbox of that address.
If they are part of the EU then the European arrest warrent will have them brough before the UK courts.
Indeed. Carrying my DSLR (a Canon 20D) on a hike is relatively easy. It's all the lenses that make it so darn heavy and bulky..... I settled on a Sigma wide angle 10-22mm which lets me do a trip with just a single lens, but I'm still looking for a good compact point and shoot as backup or more casual digicam.
HE can apply for a proxy vote - he nominates a person who can vote on his behalf. That person may either go with Hawkings ballot card (a ballot card is mailed to EVERY registered voter in the UK in the weeks before an election and that is all you need to take to the polling station with you) and can then cast his vote and then Hawkings vote, or anyone may take a helper with them to the polling station to assist them in voting. You can vote before your proxy in which case your proxy will be refused a ballot paper as your name will already be crossed off the list. Or you can have a postal vote which is mailed out before the election and you post it back in in time to arrive for election day. There are various checks to stop abuse such as a person not being permitted to proxy for more than two others etc. Generally it works well.
Well in the UK they are shown to each candidates agents and they decide along with the returning officer. I've been that agent before. Out of 30,000 votes cast there were two that were ambigous. Since the result was clearly not going to be affected we were happy to have them ruled as spoilt and classed with teh deliberatly spoiled papers (like having the words F*** you all scribbled over them instead of a neat cross) Works fine over here....
FTA: Though DriveTrust is proprietary.... Not much use unless it's published and described - unless they do that most serious users are going to discount it. I hope it's actually robust though as there will be an awful lot of people relying on this for home use. How many of them are going to have that nice warm fuzzy "I'm safe" feeling and therefore not bother with all the other good things like patching and spyware-awareness etc.
Article Ten of the European Convention of Human Rights explicilty grants it. (and article nine is essentially freedom of religion). http://www.hri.org/docs/ECHR50.html The ECHR specifically supersedes any existing national laws that it may conflict.
But the point is that even *if* you point this out it doesn't get fixed.... There was a Senator pointed out this same thing months ago - I'm British living in another continent and *I* heard about it, so I'm damn sure NW did. I've pulled up my (now ex) bank on security issues before and nothing was done about it for months until I posted a box of flyers on their doorstep one morning. Large companies make a financial decision that it's cheaper to deal with fraud than it is to fix it. This is actually a sound business decision and I cannot fault them for it. When that attitude translates into stuffed credit ratings for your customer however, or security issues on a public transport carrier it becomes reprehensible but the only way to stop them is to make it *cost* them more, and by name and shame you can take their customers away and *make* them listen by hitting the pocketbook.