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Acoustical Spying Recovers Passwords With 90-percent Accuracy
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Sunday, October 2, 2005
Acoustical Spying Recovers Passwords With 90-percent Accuracy
Computer scientists at UC Berkeley have been experimenting with recordings of keystrokes. Using 10-minute sound recordings of users typing at a keyboards, researchers were able to feed the data into a computer and recover up to 96 percent of the typed characters. By running the audio repeatedly through a feedback loop that trains the computer, they were able to recover passwords, passphrases, and complete paragraphs. [via FutureEdition from Arlington Institute]Once the system is trained, recovering the text became more straightforward, even if the text was a password and not an English word. After just 20 attempts, the researchers were able to retrieve 90 percent of five-character passwords, 77 percent of eight-character passwords and 69 percent of 10-character passwords.
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What was particularly striking about this study, the researchers said, was the ease with which the text could be recovered using off-the-shelf equipment. "We didn't need high-quality audio to accomplish this," said Feng Zhou, a UC Berkeley Ph.D. student in computer science and co-author of the study. "We just used a $10 microphone that can be easily purchased in almost any computer supply store."
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How To Read A Book
Mortimer Adler and Charles van Doren’s book on reading methodology never fails to draw a laugh when I take it out in public. Yet it’s one of the most useful, and well-used, books on my bookshelf. Their classic framework for reading quickly, actively, critically, and effectively is timeless and well worth learning. [More...]
Jerry Michalski's Brain is Back Online
PersonalBrain was one of the most advanced personal knowledge tools I ever used. Jerry Michalski has the largest brain in existence and has put it back online after a long hiatus. Jerry's brain is a great example of how these tools can be used, as are David Buchan's Brainwave patterns. [More...]
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Contempt: How the Right is Wronging American Justice
Catherine Crier was on the Tim Russert Show last night, talking about her new book, Contempt: How the Right is Wronging American Justice.
No histrionics, no name-calling, no "sky is falling" demagoguery. Just
thorough research, substantive opinions, and insightful views about
what the future holds. Among her observations: [More...]
Does Your Doctor's Computer Have Spyware?
What is your doctor's computer security policy? Every time I have a blood test or visit a doctor I sign a new HIPAA form, but it's clear there's no understanding of digital privacy within the office. For a high-tech industry, doctors and their staff are woefully ill-equipped to deal with computers. What do you do when all the providers of a necessary service have little or no idea how to protect your information? [via Spyware Warrior] [More...]Flat World and Britney Spears
"In China today, Bill Gates is Britney Spears. In America today, Britney Spears is Britney Spears - and that is our problem." - Thomas L. Friedman in "The World Is Flat".
Friday, September 30, 2005
Why Did NYTimes Cut Jobs
Speech writer Jane Genova examines causes for the recent shrinkage at the paper of record. That is what the Times calls itself, yes? I dunno. I never even bother to click NYT links anymore. I know I can't get to them if it's been more than a few days, and it hardly seems worth the effort. It's just not that relevant anymore. But that's just me. Jane says there are other reasons:
Jane has some interesting work on her blog. Check out her perspective on whether or not CEOs should blog (says it's irrelevant) and why narcissism is being weeded out of the blogosphere (a very good thing.)After Black Tuesday Comes Wednesday
Civilized society had to quake on Tuesday when THE NEW YORK TIMES announced it was cutting 500 jobs.
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Bumvertising - Helping Poor Through Exploitation
Seattle entrepreneur Ben Rogovy hires vagrant sign holders to advertise his online poker company. Homeless advocates are appalled (well, whaddaya expect?) but Rogovy is nonplussed by their claims he's a poverty pimp. [link via Tiffany B. Brown]Bumvertising - a concept that beggars belief
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Now several times a week he steps into his Mercedes, and goes hunting, as he puts it, for "good, consistent beggars". Then he makes an offer - a bit of food and water, plus $1 to $5, according to each beggar's relative value, based largely on traffic patterns.
What is Web 2.0?
The web is a big idea and, for me, Web 2.0 (or 3.0 or 4.0) means weve made a significant step forward in usability and usefulness. Not necessarily new or different (because the web, as conceived, was a really good big idea,) but were doing much of it better and its getting easier to do what we want. [More...]
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Stealing Content for Link Spam
I ran across this link-spam page today where someone, probably using an automated script, grabbed the entire content of my post on the public education boondoggle in Cobb County and pasted it onto the bottom on a page full of affiliate links. At least the scurilous pig didn't copy the page - formatting and all - so it's obvious this is nothing but link spam. Nothing to be done about this sort of thing, I suppose, but it still ticks me off. Larger images here and here.
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Personal Knowledge Management With delicious
delicious is a great Web 2.0 service that solves several previously intractable problems with bookmarks and offers a tool for sharing resources among groups with common understanding. David Buchan shares important lessons he's gathered from delicious in just a few short weeks. [More...]
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Web 2.0 Writing Tools
Today I play around with two local wiki variants - Instiki and TiddlyWiki - trying to find a better route to write-once/publish-many nirvana. [More...]
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