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more-on-npv-and-aale

Posted by: admin 16 years, 3 months ago
I had some requests for clarifications on my previous post about AALE and NPV. Hopefully this will clear up the issues.

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more-on-low-frequency-high-impact-events

Posted by: admin 16 years, 3 months ago

Adam's post yesterday on the agency problem got me thinking more about low-frequency, high-impact events and their predictability. His post was about Bear Stearns and how employees lost money. The interesting point for me was that those are the people that should have been in the best position to know that the potential for a high-impact event was increasing.

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good-business-and-good-security

Posted by: admin 16 years, 3 months ago

Larry J. Hughes, Jr over at Riskbloggers asks

After all, which of the following combinations are realistic?
  • Bad Business, Bad Security
  • Bad Business, Good Security
  • Good Business, Bad Security
  • Good Business, Good Security

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is-a-password-protected-computer-like-a-locked-box

Posted by: admin 16 years, 3 months ago

A recent Cirtcut Court decision found them to be so:

The 10th Circuit's recent 2-1 decision in U.S. v. Andrus, No. 06-3094 (April 25, 2007), recognized for the first time that a password-protected computer is like a locked suitcase or a padlocked footlocker in a bedroom. The digital locks raise the expectation of privacy by the owner. The majority nonetheless refused to suppress the evidence.
In the case in question, the father of the suspect gave the officers permission to search the house and his son's computer. The test for the majority was pretty high:
Judge Michael R. Murphy, joined by the court's newest member, Judge Neil M. Gorsuch, said the legal test is "whether law enforcement knows or should reasonably suspect because of surrounding circumstances that the computer is password protected."
While the dissenting judge pointed out that it might be hard to determine if a computer is password protected:
In dissent, Judge Monroe G. McKay called the unconstrained ability of law enforcement to use forensic software to bypass password protection without first determining whether such passwords have been enabled amounts to "dangerously sidestepping the Fourth Amendment."

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drive-neutral-the-economics-of-carbon-neutrality

Posted by: admin 16 years, 3 months ago
My wife and I have 3 kids and thus we have a big car. We bought the Suburban 5 years ago and the guilt has been building up. I'm a big believer in driving cars forever, so what do do?

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