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A new National Research Council report cautions that government data mining programs cannot effectively identify patterns of terrorist activity. Pattern-based or predictive data mining was singled out as likely to generate huge numbers of useless leads.

All U.S. agencies with counterterrorism programs that collect or “mine” personal data — such as phone, medical, and travel records or Web sites visited — should be required to systematically evaluate the programs’ effectiveness, lawfulness, and impacts on privacy, says a new report from the National Research Council.

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Opera bitten by ‘extremely severe’ browser bug Posted by Ryan Naraine @ 8:03 am Categories: Patch Watch, Hackers, Browsers, Vulnerability research, Responsible disclosure, Exploit code, Data theft, Pen testing, Privacy, Arbitrary Code Execution, Complex Attacks, Mobile (In)Security, Anti Virus,

Putting Your Trust in the Cloud October 9th, 2008 Regardless of all its hype, security in cloud computing is not a revolution; rather it’s an evolution of the age-old business model of outsourcing. The concept of cloud computing has evolved from the concepts of grid, utility, and SaaS, and these models evolved from the application service provider in the mid-early ’90s.

Data-Mining for Terrorists Not 'Feasible,' DHS-Funded Study FindsSeeded on Wed Oct 8, 2008 6:31 PM EDT (Wired News) The government should not be building predictive data-mining programs systems that attempt to figure out who among millions is a terrorist, a privacy and terrorism commission funded by

Student indicted for Palin e-mail hack Posted by Ryan Naraine @ 8:20 am Categories: Patch Watch, Hackers, Browsers, Vulnerability research, Spam and Phishing, Exploit code, Piracy, Data theft, Pen testing, Privacy, Passwords, Mobile (In)Security, Malware Tags: E-mail, Online Communications, Ryan Naraine The U.S.

Another classic data leakage….and once again it happend on Ebay! This time it’s a British agency known as MI6 (Secret Intelligence Service) demonstrating a distinct lack of intelligence. How on earth does something like even happen? Even smaller agencies and companies I’ve worked with have rigorous data destruction policies when...

It figures. Not only are the predictive data mining and behavioral surveillance efforts through which the government hopes to identify terrorists a threat to privacy, they don’t really work, either. In a 352-page report published Tuesday, the National Research Council said data mining and behavior detection aren’t nearly as useful as their proponents claim.

It figures. Not only are the predictive data mining and behavioral surveillance efforts through which the government hopes to identify terrorists a threat to privacy, they don’t really work, either. In a 352-page report published Tuesday, the National Research Council said data mining and behavior detection aren’t nearly as useful as their proponents claim.