California's neighboring state, Nevada, would welcome these businesses because it would diversify its economy which is predominately based on alcohol, tobacco, gambling, and sex.
Plus, Nevada has no corporate income tax nor personal income tax.
Quoting from the end of the fine article (emphasis added by me).
Tsutomu Matsumoto, a Japanese cryptographer, uses gelatin, the stuff that Gummi Bears are made out of. First he takes a live finger and makes a plastic mold. (He uses a free-molding plastic used to make plastic molds, and is sold at hobby shops.) Then he pours liquid gelatin into the mold and lets it harden. (The gelatin comes in solid sheets, and is used to make jellied meats, soups, and candies, and is sold in grocery stores.) This gelatin fake finger fools fingerprint detectors about 80% of the time.
His more interesting experiment involves latent fingerprints. He takes a fingerprint left on a piece of glass, enhances it with a cyanoacrylate adhesive, and then photographs it with a digital camera. Using PhotoShop, he improves the contrast and prints the fingerprint onto a transparency sheet. Then, he takes a photo-sensitive printed-circuit board (PCB) and uses the fingerprint transparency to etch the fingerprint into the copper, making it three-dimensional. (You can find photo-sensitive PCBs, along with instructions for use, in most electronics hobby shops.) Finally, he makes a gelatin finger using the print on the PCB. This also fools fingerprint detectors about 80% of the time.
Gummy fingers can even fool sensors being watched by guards. Simply form the clear gelatin finger over your own. This lets you hide it as you press your own finger onto the sensor. After it lets you in, eat the evidence.
I downloaded this image so I could zoom in. There appears to be a child's face peering out from the upper left window of the building in the foreground. (That or Alfred E. Neuman is mooning us!) Also--to the right of the man getting his shoe shinned--isn't that a person sitting at a table?
Re:$189 for total lack of editing!
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Forward? Foreward?
Good one! "Forward by Amit Yoran" HA!
Yes, this book is riddled with typos.
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Yet they only did 1/13th of the work... seems fair.
Yes; I realized that afterward.
I am not familiar with the "vanity press market-segment" so I have no comment.
Isn't marketing spam supposed to be free?
I have not seen the actual content so I can't comment on this. Have you seen the content? And if not, why would you presume it's marketing spam?
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Given that the list of contributors includes 13 industry experts in this field, it is grossly unrealistic to expect this book to retail for the normal $34.95 (or whatever the normal price is). I don't know what the net profit is for a $34.95 book, but consider: would you be willing to invest YOUR time for just 1/13 of it? I wouldn't.
In terms of pricing and content, one should thus consider this more of a White Paper.
I for one am delighted at this collaboration -- each expert given an opportunity to write about their specialty.
Otherwise (individually) they could not (or more likely, would not) have written a book on their own.
Any term or word tagged with the prefix "cyber" reeks of ignorance and opportunism. So thanks but no thanks, for this book.
That is a disingenuous statement (or perhaps a bit snobbish).
Or perhaps you never heard the adage, "Never judge a book by its cover."
If you had been open-minded and fair, and genuinely interested in the subject matter (rather than making a juvenile comment), you would have taken the time to look at the free preview provided by Amazon, in particular the Foreward, you would have discovered their reasoning (emphasis added):
Cyberforensics is a fairly new word in the technology [of***] our industry, but one that nevertheless has immediately recognizable meaning. Although the word forensics may have its origins in formal debates using evidence, it is now closely associated with investigation into evidence of crime. As the word cyber has become synonymous with the use of electronic technology, the word cyberforensics bears no mystery. It immediately conveys a serious and concentrated endeavor to identify the evidence of crimes or other attacks committed in cyberspace.
*** Oh, for goodness sake, a typo in the first sentence of a $189 book!
Barack Hussein Obama came to elected office from Chicago, and claimed he was from Hawaii to avoid the law that prohibits non-US citizens from being president. Obama is a community organizer and agitator. Obama loves nothing more than dismantling the US economy, taking over health care, raising taxes, propping up Wall Street, banks, GM, and unions, deficit spending and golfing.
And, yeah, anti-establishment candidates are going to win next week.
Slashdot Mirror
This "matters" as much as a tic turd.
Yeah, well, I'll bet they didn't have an Uncrop function!
Silent Running (1972)
California's neighboring state, Nevada, would welcome these businesses because it would diversify its economy which is predominately based on alcohol, tobacco, gambling, and sex.
Plus, Nevada has no corporate income tax nor personal income tax.
First Summit!
aptitude install sun-java6-source
Apache Harmony, no?
Regardless, +1 Funny
Larry Elison, to become the most hated man in the World.
I didn't realize Mr. Ellison was a Conservative.
Until Discovery Communications has it taken down--
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA4Xx5Noxyo
Clarification: no it's not an actual photo of an Australian kid's finger prints. Still: WTF, /. editors?
Quoting from the end of the fine article (emphasis added by me).
Tsutomu Matsumoto, a Japanese cryptographer, uses gelatin, the stuff that Gummi Bears are made out of. First he takes a live finger and makes a plastic mold. (He uses a free-molding plastic used to make plastic molds, and is sold at hobby shops.) Then he pours liquid gelatin into the mold and lets it harden. (The gelatin comes in solid sheets, and is used to make jellied meats, soups, and candies, and is sold in grocery stores.) This gelatin fake finger fools fingerprint detectors about 80% of the time.
His more interesting experiment involves latent fingerprints. He takes a fingerprint left on a piece of glass, enhances it with a cyanoacrylate adhesive, and then photographs it with a digital camera. Using PhotoShop, he improves the contrast and prints the fingerprint onto a transparency sheet. Then, he takes a photo-sensitive printed-circuit board (PCB) and uses the fingerprint transparency to etch the fingerprint into the copper, making it three-dimensional. (You can find photo-sensitive PCBs, along with instructions for use, in most electronics hobby shops.) Finally, he makes a gelatin finger using the print on the PCB. This also fools fingerprint detectors about 80% of the time.
Gummy fingers can even fool sensors being watched by guards. Simply form the clear gelatin finger over your own. This lets you hide it as you press your own finger onto the sensor. After it lets you in, eat the evidence.
No it's not. (WTF, /. editors?)
Now get off of my lawn.
Most of Google's data is video from its popular YouTube site.
Correction--two people sitting at a table. That or I'm seeing dead people.
I downloaded this image so I could zoom in. There appears to be a child's face peering out from the upper left window of the building in the foreground. (That or Alfred E. Neuman is mooning us!) Also--to the right of the man getting his shoe shinned--isn't that a person sitting at a table?
Sharp To Quit Making Personal Computers
The original review had the Amazon Bestsellers Rank at #1,399,835.
Earlier today when I looked at the rating it had gone down to #1,6xx,xxx
And just now when I looked at it, it's at #40,592 !
What changed? Well, a review by brothke's was posted at the site (four stars) and /. readers had simply looked at the page.
I call "BULLSHIT!" on Amazon!
I'm gonna wait for the Dark Helmet outfit worn by Rick Moranis in Spaceballs
Forward? Foreward?
Good one! "Forward by Amit Yoran" HA!
Yes, this book is riddled with typos.
Yet they only did 1/13th of the work... seems fair.
Yes; I realized that afterward.
I am not familiar with the "vanity press market-segment" so I have no comment.
Isn't marketing spam supposed to be free?
I have not seen the actual content so I can't comment on this. Have you seen the content? And if not, why would you presume it's marketing spam?
Given that the list of contributors includes 13 industry experts in this field, it is grossly unrealistic to expect this book to retail for the normal $34.95 (or whatever the normal price is). I don't know what the net profit is for a $34.95 book, but consider: would you be willing to invest YOUR time for just 1/13 of it? I wouldn't.
In terms of pricing and content, one should thus consider this more of a White Paper.
I for one am delighted at this collaboration -- each expert given an opportunity to write about their specialty.
Otherwise (individually) they could not (or more likely, would not) have written a book on their own.
Any term or word tagged with the prefix "cyber" reeks of ignorance and opportunism. So thanks but no thanks, for this book.
That is a disingenuous statement (or perhaps a bit snobbish).
Or perhaps you never heard the adage, "Never judge a book by its cover."
If you had been open-minded and fair, and genuinely interested in the subject matter (rather than making a juvenile comment), you would have taken the time to look at the free preview provided by Amazon, in particular the Foreward, you would have discovered their reasoning (emphasis added):
Cyberforensics is a fairly new word in the technology [of***] our industry, but one that nevertheless has immediately recognizable meaning. Although the word forensics may have its origins in formal debates using evidence, it is now closely associated with investigation into evidence of crime. As the word cyber has become synonymous with the use of electronic technology, the word cyberforensics bears no mystery. It immediately conveys a serious and concentrated endeavor to identify the evidence of crimes or other attacks committed in cyberspace.
*** Oh, for goodness sake, a typo in the first sentence of a $189 book!
And, yeah, anti-establishment candidates are going to win next week.
So Broken Arrow means missing nuke. Apparently Dull Sword is the term for a non-functioning nuclear warhead.
Yeah, but what does Limp Dick mean?
I'd recommend over Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Pakistan, and Somalia.
Win Win!
PROFIT!