Audio techniques have also been employed, as well as interpreting fan speed changes. Undoubtedly many more.
As far as encryption goes, even the old standby of one time pads have been cracked on occasion.
If you think your smart phone is safe if it never leaves your hands, think again. Celebrite makes devices that can directly read everything on your smartphone without physical contact, or invading your personal space (just your smartphone.)
Not trying to be irritating, but would you have a reference for that? I have heard the "yelling fire" thing so often that I would really like to put down anyone who says it.
Perhaps you are not old enough to see the steady erosion of Constitutional rights, or possibly you are not paying attention.
Government starts stealing these rights from those who are least able to defend themselves -- the poor and those who have little or no legal standing in the country. They don't start at the top, where people have social and political standing, money, connections and high quality defense lawyers. Gradually the behaviors of law enforcement become second nature, and they climb the social ladder.
What I gave you was an example of how the process works outside of government. But it is the same inside -- just slower.
A higher percentage of blacks and Latinos are killed by police than whites. But in absolute numbers, more whites are killed than blacks. This is true even though almost all those shown and talked about are black or Latino.
It is a serious mistake to separate black, Latino and white live. It makes whites feel that they are immune to cops bullets and batons. It is a class issue, and the struggle against police brutality and murder can only be resolved by a united front of all. Splintering the affected groups is a standard mechanism for weakening and defeating them.
I knew an owner who only hired blacks. After they attempted to bring in a union, he hired the best mix he could by sex, race, age and marital status. Nobody trusted each other, and he never had another unionization attempt. This is the standard practice of governmental power expansion. Start with immigrants, then blacks/Latinos, finally whites.
The medallion market is based on artificial scarcity created via corrupt politicians. There is no inherent reason why medallions should be so limited.
So medallion owners played the tulip bulb craze game, and now they are losing. I don't want to hear them cry about how unfair this is any more than the buggy whip makers cried about the the invention of cars.
DC is a nothing but a very large mental institution, specializing in the (lack of) care for those who live fantasy lives of grandiosity completely separate from the reality of the suffering they cause.
Computers have their uses, and I have spent 50 years of my life apply them to chemistry, public health, experiential mathematics, and quantum mechanics.
I have also seen them abused and misused to produce results that were more fallacious than the abominations spoken of in the comments on this critique of the FBI.
You use the term computer science. That is not generally applied to the application of computers in use, but rather the theory of algorithms and mathematics as applied to computation.
"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." --Edsger Dijkstra
The problem here is that you are comparing apples to kangaroos. First there is the source of knowledge. If all that you read/know of climate science is the the popular press, then you have disinformation based on the statements of people who know nothing about climate science.
If you read journals then you can provide an opinion with a solid basis. But if you have but if you have been trained in science and math enough to proffer such an opinion, then say so. Otherwise you are merely taking a side that is oriented to political opinion.
I have been trained in the physical sciences, know a great deal of math, and would not dream of offering an opinion on the scientific veracity of climate warming. I do know that the climate is warming. That the last day of frost in the spring is getting earlier, and the last day of frost in the fall is getting later. That temperatures are generally increasing. That respected scientists have offered not just the data, but also a functional model for the process. What is more, the publishable data is available to anyone, and the work is open to replication.
With fingerprints, the issue is interpretation. To the best of my knowledge, no proper studies have been performed. The data is hidden, people not on the payroll are not permitted to study or attempt to replicate the work.
The former is science, the latter does not meet the criteria of the scientific method. Whether climate science produces correct hypothesis or not, it is conducted as science. Whether or no fingerprint matching produces a correct hypothesis or not, it is not conducted as science.
Combined circumstantial and direct evidence is useful in determining guild or innocence. Indeed circumstantial evidence is most often more dependable than direct evidence. However circumstantial evidence must be used properly, and in a scientific manner. It must be verified as reliable, and having been assayed according to protocol.
Above all, defendants must have the right to challenge any and all evidence presented against them. Too often errors, innocent or malicious hide behind a wall of secrecy, NDAs and trade secret claims. Many analytic devices and tests do not function as advertised, having error rates as high as 1/3 false positives or more. Knowing this (or should know this) police, DAs and Judges make life wrecking decisions about individuals who are quite often totally innocent.
Being a retired biochemist, I am totally disgusted by the way that the legal system abuses what it calls science.
In full disclosure, I have never been arrested, ticketed for a moving violation or been attacked by a LEO. My worst violation was failure to display a registration sticker that was present in my glove box.
2005 Spanish Brandon Mayfield was kept in jail for weeks after the FBI claimed hew was a match for one of the terrorists who bombed the train. Despite many witnesses who placed him on the western coast of the US at the time of the bombing. And despite the Spanish authorities adamantly stating the fingerprints were not a match.
Fingerprints may be unique, but the person who calls the match, and the protocol for calling a match are clearly in question. By refusing blind quality assurance studies, the FBI has demonstrated a disregard for truth. And a willingness to make evidence say what it wants it to say.
The precis on the 2004 bullet analysis scandal does not begin to describe the malevolence of FBI scientists who were behind this test. It can only have been the result of internal pressure to provide a new mechanism for testilying to find falsely find defendants guilty.
Anyone who passed middle school algebra or had a course in logic, had to know that this "analysis" was anathema to science and law.
IP addresses are easily spoofable. Person A uses Persons B IP address to commit a crime. Person A can do this without using any of Person's B equipment. Person A can accomplish this while not in in the same city, or even the same continent, as person B. Person B has no idea that this is going on, never gave person A permission, doesn't know person A exists. Person B not only did not know this was going on, Person B had no way to stop this without knowing it was happening.
Is person B responsible for the actions for the actions of person A? If so, why?
From the videos in the news it is apparent that LEOs prefer not to wait more 1-10 seconds after arriving on a scene before shooting someone. Why would you think they would take the time to see if there was an open WiFi, presuming of course, that they knew what that was?
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No matter what the justice system says about a search for the truth, it is my experience that everyone in a court room is willing to lie.
One incident that truly surprised me was a bone headed lie told by a judge in an attempt to intimidate a prospective juror during voir dire. I was quite shocked not because of the lie so much, but because it was such a stupid one. Anyone who had read their jury notice, saw the video presented to all jurors, or listened to the welcoming speech by one of the county supreme court judges knew that the judge had lied. Bad enough that he lied, but to make such an ass of himself in front of a 100+ people was hard to believe.
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A "simple" technique is available with a cell phone.
"Researchers Hack Air-Gapped Computer With Simple Cell Phone"
https://www.wired.com/2015/07/researchers-hack-air-gapped-computer-simple-cell-phone
Other methods exist that have been reported to crack PCs that are completely airgapped, and are in another room from a networked PC.
Bit whisper is one that uses thermal emission.
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2015/03/24/hack-air-gapped-computers-using-heat/
Audio techniques have also been employed, as well as interpreting fan speed changes. Undoubtedly many more.
As far as encryption goes, even the old standby of one time pads have been cracked on occasion.
If you think your smart phone is safe if it never leaves your hands, think again. Celebrite makes devices that can directly read everything on your smartphone without physical contact, or invading your personal space (just your smartphone.)
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Government starts stealing these rights from those who are least able to defend themselves -- the poor and those who have little or no legal standing in the country. They don't start at the top, where people have social and political standing, money, connections and high quality defense lawyers. Gradually the behaviors of law enforcement become second nature, and they climb the social ladder.
What I gave you was an example of how the process works outside of government. But it is the same inside -- just slower.
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It is a serious mistake to separate black, Latino and white live. It makes whites feel that they are immune to cops bullets and batons. It is a class issue, and the struggle against police brutality and murder can only be resolved by a united front of all. Splintering the affected groups is a standard mechanism for weakening and defeating them.
I knew an owner who only hired blacks. After they attempted to bring in a union, he hired the best mix he could by sex, race, age and marital status. Nobody trusted each other, and he never had another unionization attempt. This is the standard practice of governmental power expansion. Start with immigrants, then blacks/Latinos, finally whites.
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So medallion owners played the tulip bulb craze game, and now they are losing. I don't want to hear them cry about how unfair this is any more than the buggy whip makers cried about the the invention of cars.
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I have also seen them abused and misused to produce results that were more fallacious than the abominations spoken of in the comments on this critique of the FBI.
You use the term computer science. That is not generally applied to the application of computers in use, but rather the theory of algorithms and mathematics as applied to computation.
"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."
--Edsger Dijkstra
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If you read journals then you can provide an opinion with a solid basis. But if you have but if you have been trained in science and math enough to proffer such an opinion, then say so. Otherwise you are merely taking a side that is oriented to political opinion.
I have been trained in the physical sciences, know a great deal of math, and would not dream of offering an opinion on the scientific veracity of climate warming. I do know that the climate is warming. That the last day of frost in the spring is getting earlier, and the last day of frost in the fall is getting later. That temperatures are generally increasing. That respected scientists have offered not just the data, but also a functional model for the process. What is more, the publishable data is available to anyone, and the work is open to replication.
With fingerprints, the issue is interpretation. To the best of my knowledge, no proper studies have been performed. The data is hidden, people not on the payroll are not permitted to study or attempt to replicate the work.
The former is science, the latter does not meet the criteria of the scientific method. Whether climate science produces correct hypothesis or not, it is conducted as science. Whether or no fingerprint matching produces a correct hypothesis or not, it is not conducted as science.
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Above all, defendants must have the right to challenge any and all evidence presented against them. Too often errors, innocent or malicious hide behind a wall of secrecy, NDAs and trade secret claims. Many analytic devices and tests do not function as advertised, having error rates as high as 1/3 false positives or more. Knowing this (or should know this) police, DAs and Judges make life wrecking decisions about individuals who are quite often totally innocent.
Being a retired biochemist, I am totally disgusted by the way that the legal system abuses what it calls science.
In full disclosure, I have never been arrested, ticketed for a moving violation or been attacked by a LEO. My worst violation was failure to display a registration sticker that was present in my glove box.
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Fingerprints may be unique, but the person who calls the match, and the protocol for calling a match are clearly in question. By refusing blind quality assurance studies, the FBI has demonstrated a disregard for truth. And a willingness to make evidence say what it wants it to say.
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Statement re 2004 Bullet analysis
Anyone who passed middle school algebra or had a course in logic, had to know that this "analysis" was anathema to science and law.
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Is person B responsible for the actions for the actions of person A? If so, why?
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One incident that truly surprised me was a bone headed lie told by a judge in an attempt to intimidate a prospective juror during voir dire. I was quite shocked not because of the lie so much, but because it was such a stupid one. Anyone who had read their jury notice, saw the video presented to all jurors, or listened to the welcoming speech by one of the county supreme court judges knew that the judge had lied. Bad enough that he lied, but to make such an ass of himself in front of a 100+ people was hard to believe.
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