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Re. Anthony re. Schneier's talk:<br>
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Good to hear him speaking up about corporate abuse of power over the
internet. <br>
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What I find really w-e-i-r-d about the whole "cloud" phenomenon is
that it occurs as the cost of terabyte storage has become almost
trivial. I can understand people using cloud services as backup
systems and as means of synchronizing and transferring data across
multiple devices. But using it _instead of_ one's own storage
devices is just phenomenally stupid: caving in to a rent-seeking
business model, and creating vulnerabilities too obvious to even
waste electrons here to list.<br>
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He also points to the rapid tightening of corporate control over the
OS, by the usual suspects. "Giving them more control of our data,
and therefore of _us_."<br>
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Control is a zero-sum game where the score runs from 0 to 100%. The
more control _you_ have, the less control _they_ have. The more
control _they_ have, the less control _you_ have. Zero sum. Fixed
quantity that does not grow over time. For any given item, you
control it or _they_ control it, and "shared" control really means
_they_ control it.<br>
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"Surveillance is the business model of the internet, and business
surveillance gives governments access to data they couldn't get
otherwise. You can think of it as a public/private surveillance
partnership." <br>
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Exactly. Mutual back-scratching. If you don't approve of
government surveillance, don't make it even easier for them by using
Google, Facebook, and Twitter. Make it harder for them by using
AdBlock, CookieStumbler, DoNotTrackMe, Ghostery, JavaScript Blocker,
etc. etc.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 13-10-17-Thu 2:11 PM, Anthony Di
Franco wrote:<br>
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style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">I
just came across this Bruce Schneier talk about the
big-picture issues of increasingly powerful technology for
communication / surveillance and found it to be relevant to
the discussion here:<br>
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href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0d_QDgl3gI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0d_QDgl3gI</a><br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 10:27 AM,
Patrik D'haeseleer <span dir="ltr"><<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:patrikd@gmail.com"
target="_blank">patrikd@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 6:41 AM, GtwoG
PublicOhOne <span dir="ltr"><<a
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href="mailto:g2g-public01@att.net" target="_blank">g2g-public01@att.net</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid
rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">And voiceprint
attribution was 99.96% accurate as of 1962<br>
(published); fast-forward at the speed of Moore's
law, draw your own<br>
conclusions, and more details in person.<br>
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<div>Note that the accuracy of voiceprint
identification has been hugely exaggerated. That
number has been touted primarily by prosecutors, and
by voiceprint identification "experts" who make a
nice buck from offering their services. But just as
has been the case with lie detectors, these claims
have not stood up to rigorous scientific validation.<br>
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<div>Of course, that doesn't mean that they won't be
used against you in a court of law, regardless of
your guilt or innocence! And <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.innocenceproject.org/Content/David_Shawn_Pope.php"
target="_blank">some people</a> have been falsely
convicted to decades in jail or worse on the basis
of this kind of "evidence". <br>
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<div style="margin-left:40px"><a
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href="http://sourcesandmethods.blogspot.com/2013/08/is-forensic-speaker-recognition-next.html"
target="_blank">http://sourcesandmethods.blogspot.com/2013/08/is-forensic-speaker-recognition-next.html</a><br>
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<span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New
Roman,serif">Forensic speaker recognition has
many limitations and is currently inadmissible
in federal court as expert testimony. Bonastre
et al (2003) summarize these limitations quite
well: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New
Roman,serif">"The term <i>voiceprint</i> gives
the false impression that voice has
characteristics that are as unique and reliable
as fingerprints... this is absolutely not the
case."</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family:Georgia,'Times New
Roman',serif">The thing about voices is that
they are susceptible to a myriad of external
factors such as psychological/emotional state,
age, health, weather... the list goes on. From
an application standpoint, the most prominent of
these factors is intentional vocal disguise.
There are a number of things people can
intentionally do to their voices to drastically
reduce the ability of machine or human expert to
identify their voice correctly (you would be
amazed at how difficult it is - nearly
impossible - to identify a whispered voice).
Under these conditions, identification accuracy
falls to 40 - 52 percent (Thompson 1987), 36
percent (Andruski 2007), 26 percent (Clifford
1980).</span><span class="HOEnZb"><font
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Patrik<br>
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