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10:35 am EDT, Jun 4, 2002 |
Don't miss robot soccer! Robocup2002 |
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News: $100K hacking contest ends in free-for-all |
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10:34 am EDT, Jun 4, 2002 |
"...a hacking competition that promised a first prize of $100,000 and which now seems to be losing its luster after hackers compromised the server that held registration details. The result is that what should have been a straightforward competition has turned into a convoluted tale of hackers attacking the wrong systems and organizers using a dubious server set-up in the first place. " What I find most interesting about this is the suggestion that the people running this contest were using it to collect personal information about key hackers. News: $100K hacking contest ends in free-for-all |
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Protecting privacy by randomizing input in a controlled manner |
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10:19 am EDT, Jun 4, 2002 |
"In an example, a consumer registering for a web site truthfully enters their age as 30. Software in the page, perhaps a Java applet, is set to randomly add or subject years in a range of, say, five years, before submitting the data to the site, so submits the user's age as 26. Before allowing the data to be input to a data mining application, IBM's software "corrects" the randomized data to provide a "close approximation of the true distribution"." This is a neat idea... Protecting privacy by randomizing input in a controlled manner |
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LOOSE LIPS CAN SINK SHIPS -- AGAIN |
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2:29 am EDT, Jun 4, 2002 |
Created by the NSA's ad agency, Trahan, Burden & Charles, Baltimore, the new print campaign uses dramatic patriotic art of miliary personnel at work emblazoned with slogans such as "INFORMATION SECURITY BEGINS WITH YOU." LOOSE LIPS CAN SINK SHIPS -- AGAIN |
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Questions About Online Data |
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11:34 am EDT, Jun 3, 2002 |
"The Data Quality Act, along with recent efforts by government agencies to scrub their Web sites of information to guard national security, indicate a substantial shift to a more conservative culture of information, said Darrell West, a political scientist at Brown who tracks government information on the Web. " Questions About Online Data |
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11:28 am EDT, Jun 3, 2002 |
"The European Parliament has voted to ban the sending of unsolicited commercial email. " Europe Bans Spam |
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CNN.com - Key Republican blasts new FBI guidelines - June 1, 2002 |
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10:02 pm EDT, Jun 1, 2002 |
"Sensenbrenner, R-Wisconsin, said he has called Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller to appear before his committee "to justify why the 1976 regulations on domestic spying, that have worked so well for the last 25 or 26 years, have to be changed." Thank god someone is looking into this... CNN.com - Key Republican blasts new FBI guidelines - June 1, 2002 |
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WorldNetDaily: India, Pakistan at boiling point |
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1:51 pm EDT, May 31, 2002 |
We are therefore in an extraordinarily difficult crisis. The three players each have strategic interests that simply don't mesh. If Washington convinces New Delhi to wait, it will have to convince Islamabad to stay in India's crosshairs and India to put up with intolerable attacks. If India proceeds, it essentially would save al-Qaida by shattering Pakistan. In the event of complete mismanagement, a nuclear exchange costing millions of lives is a genuine possibility. WorldNetDaily: India, Pakistan at boiling point |
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Why Radio Sucks (washingtonpost.com) |
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1:41 pm EDT, May 31, 2002 |
"Each week the program directors review national sales data and Billboard's charts. Focus groups are regularly assembled and phone polls are taken. Is a tune familiar enough? Do people like it? Are they tired of it? Each track is assigned a "burn" score, a measure of how "burned out" the target audience has become; when the score passes a certain level, the tune disappears." Apparently their scoring system is broken, among other things. Revenue keeps dropping. The size of the market keeps dropping. And yet they keep tightening the screws using the same broken formulas that caused the previous decline. They obviously don't understand the cause and effect here. They see bankruptcy looming and out of fear they tighten the screws some more, causing more fallout. There is no hope for them. They'll go out of business eventually. Why Radio Sucks (washingtonpost.com) |
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