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Go home, you’re drunk - CoT 047
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HP printer ink & vendors of evil
http://boingboing.net/2016/09/19/hp-detonates-its-timebomb-pri.html
https://www.buzzfeed.com/higgypop/top-10-most-expensive-liquids-on-earth-6qcr
http://www8.hp.com/h20195/v2/GetPDF.aspx/4AA5-7018EEE.pdf
http://visual.ly/ink-costs-more-human-blood
As of Sept. 13, HP printers no longer accept 3rd party ink.
HP OfficeJet, OfficeJet Pro and OfficeJet Pro X are impacted.
Printer ink costs $2K - $3K approximately.
HP has an official position marketing on non-HP ink cartridges.
Myth 1: Non-HP cartridges are just as reliable as Original HP cartridges.
Myth 2: Non-HP cartridge page yields equal those of HP cartridges.
Myth 3: Non-HP inks perform just as well as Original HP inks.
Myth 4: Non-HP cartridges are better for the environment.
Myth 5: Non-HP ink cartridges save you money.
Myth 6: The ink cartridge is simply a container holding “coloured water”.
Myth 7: Ink dries out if you don’t print on a regular basis.
“Nearly 8,000 people have signed an EFF petition calling on HP to restore the full functionality of its printers.”
Virtual machines as security
Microsoft is working on keeping you safer in their new browser, Edge
The only problem is that you don’t use Edge do you?
Statistically speaking you don’t.
4.20% market adoption as of September 2106 according to netmarketshare.com
This is actually a pretty novel idea. Kind of.
This takes a page from the book of “Spin up a VM for your browsing of dubious safety”
It also takes a page from Microsoft’s “Don’t name anything in a succinct and meaningful way.”
Windows Defender Application Guard for Microsoft Edge
It’s a “lightweight VM” - an extension of Windows 10's Virtualization Based Security
Let’s talk briefly about current security methodology: Sandboxing.
Each tab gets its own process which is (in theory) isolated from the other executable instances
Very limited interaction with the rest of the system & processes
Breaking out of that sandbox is the challenge, and it can be done - usually via OS exploits
This leads to privilege elevation and/or remote code execution
Application Guard takes this a step further, with large portions of Edge running inside a stripped down Windows VM.
It can’t see other processes, storage, applications, or interact with the kernel
Sounds pretty cool.
Windows 10 Enterprise only, as with VBS
Compatibility issues:
Requires virtualization extensions on your CPU (Intel-VT
Performance Issues:
Microsoft hasn’t been forthcoming with that info yet
Availability
Late 2016 on “Insider” builds of Windows 10
Stable release slated for 2017
Drunk people don’t know how drunk they are
http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/09/science-shows-that-drunk-people-dont-know-how-drunk-they-are/
A group of scientists went bar-hopping in Cardiff over several nights, asking every seventh person they ran into the following questions.
1) How drunk are you right now, on a 1 (totally sober) to 10 (completely drunk) scale?
2) How extreme has your drinking been tonight, on a 1 (not at all) to 10 (completely extreme) scale?”
3) If you drank as much as you have tonight every week, how likely is it that you will damage your health in the next 15 years, on a 1 (definitely will not) to 10 (definitely will) scale?
4) If you drank as much as you have tonight every week how likely is it that you will get cirrhosis of the liver in the next 15 years, on a 1 (definitely will not) to 10 (definitely will) scale?
Then, they’d take their actual blood-alcohol level.
Overall, people’s sense of their drunkenness was driven by a comparison to others around them.
If they were buzzed while others were sober, they knew it. But if they were wasted, while everyone else was passed out, they didn’t think they were so bad.
1TB SDXC Card Announced by SanDisk
https://9to5mac.com/2016/09/20/sandisk-introduces-the-worlds-first-ever-1tb-sd-card/
https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Extreme-512GB-Memory-SDSDXPA-512G-G46/dp/B00NP699ZI/
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00XJRX01M/
It’s mostly for photographers and videographers. 4K wants all the storage.
Not available as yet. I did not see a date announced.
The 512GB version of the card from SanDisk is $346 from Amazon.
A card with identical performance from PNY is $192 from Amazon.
Speculation, the 1TB card from SanDisk will start at a premium, but under $1K, then will drop in price over time.
Enhance. Enhance. Enhance. Forensic evidence is far less scientific than you think
It’s not as accurate as CSI: Miami would lead you to believe - “In looking over past cases, the feds discovered that agents had systematically overstated the method's accuracy in court, including at least 35 death penalty cases.”
Hair Analysis: “best left to a scientific agency, not a legal one”
DNA Analysis: The basic technique is sound, but human error is the biggest factor in this.
I’m reminded of a wrongful conviction that my wife and I discussed. The DNA analysis was performed by an apparently improperly trained, under-supervised technician, which led to the wrongful conviction and eventual pardon of an innocent man.
Fingerprints: Confirmation bias is a major issue “it looks really close and there’s other evidence that seems to fall in line”
Proficiency testing is lacking, overall
The good news is that this one is largely being converted to computer analytics, taking it from subjective to objective comparison
Firearm markings: “Different guns are thought to leave distinctive marks on cartridges fired in them. PCAST finds that we only have a single study rigorous enough to define this technique's error rate, which may be as high as one-in-46. That's a far cry from practitioners' claims that the technique "has near-perfect accuracy." More studies are needed to define an accuracy rate that can be used in testimony, and again, computerized image analysis may convert this from a subjective to an objective technique.”
Footwear analysis: It turns out it’s really, really difficult to use footwear to identify a suspect. The one area that it could be useful would be when there are distinctive wear markings on the footwear. There really haven’t been any studies to be of any use.
Bitemarks: The worst of all, pretty much completely subjective, according to the studies.
“Overall, the PCAST report finds that most of the forensic techniques it looked at needed to be put on a more firm scientific foundation. For subjective ones, this would involve testing trained practitioners to determine their error rate; for objective ones, we'd need studies that showed the underlying principles behind the technique actually apply to it.”
NIST should look into how to measure and certify error rates, etc.
The FBI responded that “the FBI disagrees with many of the scientific assertions and conclusions of the report."”
Content I Like
Free (really, do whatever you want with them) photos
I work on websites a lot
This site has come in very handy many times
Seems like it’s sort of “listen to my mixtape” for photographers…?
Today I Learned
Verizon wireless caller ID is worthless.
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