Carnival Booth: An Algorithm for Defeating the Computer-Assisted Passenger Screening System In our paper, we show that although these intuitive foundations might be compelling, their implementation in CAPS is flawed. That is to say that any CAPS-like airport security system that uses profiles to select passengers for increased scrutiny is bound to be less secure than systems that randomly select passengers for thorough inspection. Using mathematical models and computer simulation, we show how a terrorist cell can increase their chances of mounting a successful attack under the CAPS system as opposed to a security system that uses only random searches. Instinct may suggest that CAPS strengthens security, but it in fact introduces a gaping security hole easily exploitable by terrorist cells.

Using Samba as a PDC Select any of these links to start the tutorial.

eServer Developer Domain: Tutorial Using Samba as a primary domain controller -- tutorial

LinuxPlanet - Tutorials - Linux Networking: Exploring Samba - The Samba Essentials Server Message Block (SMB), also known as Common Internet File System (CIFS), is one of the most common protocols for sharing files on a network. It is used with Microsoft Windows and, through Samba, a variety of other operating systems include Linux. Samba provides a way to share the contents of Linux directories with other computers and to access shared directories on a remote computer. The type of remote computer does not matter. It could be a computer running Sun Solaris or Windows NT.

Bad Human Factors Designs A scrapbook of illustrated examples of things that are hard to use because they do not follow human factors principles.

There is so much good stuff out there, so many fine articles and creative works, all around the RKBA -- for example, this brochure for Gun Free Camps: http://www.visi.com/~mad_prophet/articles/rkba/other/mp000001.html


Pretty sweet stuff. I wish I had time to catalog it all.


-Tom

Oregon Live: The Edge -- The Pantless Menace -- May 18, 1999 contains mention of a New Yorker story (New Yorker magazine currently does not make its back issues available on the Internet) about an attempt by MTV to create hip new slang. There was no later coverage as to how the effort failed, which it did.

Hoorah, I think. On a project now, in San Francisco again. Doing the Monday-to-Friday thing so far, and hoping to pull it back to Mon-Thurs in a few weeks. Billable at last, billable at last; thank God almighty, I'm billable at last.

The project is Disaster Recovery Planning. Fascinating stuff, and ample opportunity for me to either shine or hang myself. Certainly it's important for the client, so I'll be providing value (an important thing for me, as I would hate to perform work where I didn't see the value in it, or was worried that it won't be worth what they're paying me).

Been a while since I posted anything. Developments:

1. bought a house
2. working on the home Oracle lab
2a. got Oracle8i (8.1.7) and 9i (9.0.1) up
2b. upgraded to 1 GB of memory on the DB server machine
2c. got a bunch of Quest tools on trial -- need to use in next white paper
2d. discovered important differences between ANALYZE TABLE and DBMS_STATS approach.

Still no projects for me. Grumpy.

Women Against Gun Control

Interesting group for... well, the title says it all pretty much. I joined.