Police: Miami SID had child porn on computer -- Pornography, Un...

ESPN story wrote:

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not surprising.

Get lost you two losers.

Gatorsrulz wrote:

Typical cane....always involved in something illegal

Yeah, I am sure that no employees at UF have ever done anything like that!

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/news-artic...

Oops!

Racist hypocrite Gatrsrulz strikes out again!

Okay, so when do we get the flyer with his picture????

They really need to cut off tally whackers in this society to protect our children. Reopoen alcatraz for the sexual predator. This way they can all live on one island, and this will also keep them off the Julia Tuttle causeway, and the within the Everglades.

Kin, You are right for the most part. Where is the Reverend Al Sharpton to begin the Civil Rights movements for the child predator. My solution to all liberals against the death penalty, MOVE YOUR FAMILY NEXT TO THE SEXUAL PREDATORS and Killers. If you want them to have rehabilitation then rehabilitate them as your neighbor, only you can make a difference, but don't put them next to me. I vote to reopen alcatraz just to house them.

Okay, so when do we get the flyer with his picture.They really need to cut off ..........in this society to protect our children. Reopoen alcatraz for the sexual predator. This way they can all live on one island, and this will also keep them off the Julia Tuttle causeway, and the within the Everglades.

Gatorsrulz wrote:
Typical cane....always involved in something illegal

stupid gatrs...they had 8 arrests last year(more then canes in 10 years), and death of a player riding a bike on x.

ESPN story wrote:

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not surprising.

Get lost you pair of losers.

The Judge wrote:

Conspiracy, you and Alf seem to be very well well versed in this techy stuff.
Let me throw this at you since I am not an engineer or computer wiz, otherwise I'd try to write what I am about to ask you.
Is it possible to write a virus protection program that would be something similar to artificial intelligence where computers are able to learn? For example, a virus protection program that would evolve and rewrite itself as new viruses enter the system. Can the virus program identify something new, that does not match anything benign, looks for some tag and then rewrites itself to attack that totally new virus?
I know it is farfetched, but you'd be amazed at how many farfetched ideas I have thought of but unable to invent because I don't have the technical know-how. Just a thought.:-)

Actually, that's the state-of-the-art today.

With viruses entering the Net at the alarming rate with which they do, a number of antivirus manufacturers employ what's known as "zero-day protection."

In a nutshell, the antivirus program looks for the stuff it knows about (the updates it gets from its writers every so often in the form of over-the-web updates keeps that list up-to-date), and it also looks for "virus-like atcivity." It may not know the signature of the latest and greatest Botnet zombie-making virus, but it does know what files in your computer are the most likely to be attacked should one slip past the goalie. It also knows what ports to watch for Botnet programs that spew SPAM.

So whenever it sees "unusual" activity on those ports, or an attempt to change an important operating-system file that is not normally changed, it flags the activity and typically asks you if the activity is permissable.

How does it know what's "normal" and "abnormal?" A small degree of artificial intelligence is built in to the antivirus program. Plus, over time, it "learns," by way of your responses to it, what stuff is allowed activity and what stuff isn't--kind of like TiVo.

Neat, huh?

Get lost maggots.

alf wrote:

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you said it cant be done, which it can. computer forensics use this all time and can be done if needed. if you have a file or whatever encrypted you must be hiding something. there must be something in there that you dont want others to see. that is why you do it. But if your fixing computer problem like a virus, no you dont do this. most tier 1, tier pc techs wont know where to find or wont know where to begin to crack that file.
to the guy who brings his computer to best buy to upgrade ram. after the install the ram, and for some reason the computer does not work properly. their job as pc tech are to get the computer running properly so they will troubleshot the issue, while troubleshooting they can came a cross a file in that folder that is the cause of the problem. yea they might not have the right but if the give a computer no working the way you want. what will you tell them? fix it.

I never said it couldn't be done. "Where there's a will, there's a way" applies just as much to IT circles as it does anything else. It's just that the PITA factor is so high as to make it prohibitively difficult. You can crack any encryption, with the liberal application of enough time, energy, cycles, and the most important ingredient--will. It just depends how bad you want the data.

You're dead-on about one thing; most level I techs are far too busy to snoop around a PC brought in for repair (unless the know the one who brought it in has a reputation for having good stuff on their drive, like the pictures of the drunken debauchery at the last office party). Any encrypted or sufficiently hidden files will be summarily ignored.

As far as encryption leaks, I already know, forensically, of several. I once had one user who used WinRAR to move a number of files into an encrypted 128-bit AES encrypted archives, thinking it would outsmart my staff and I. However, what the user had failed to realize was that I am able to restore files recently deleted from my servers, and that whatever falls outside the undelete window is usually caught my by backup mechanisms.

This lends much credence to your earlier note about "leaks" in the encryption process. That right there is a big ol' leak. What I will admit to, however, is that I was lucky to have caught the user when I did. The user made a crucial mistake--trying to archive data from my server, rather than their own box. Had they done that, the odds I would've caught them is far more remote.

Gatorsrulz wrote:

Typical cane....always involved in something illegal

Are saying that this never happens at UF?

www.firstcoastnews.com/news/news-article.aspx...

I guess you are wrong on that one, too, hypocrite! For you to troll Canes threads is one thing, but to try to imply that we are all criminals, shows how classless you are.

alf wrote:

sorry for the typos i only got one to type with.

No worries, mate. Sounds like you're part of the brotherhood.

Once again, the Sun-Sentinel is a day late on a story. The Herald had this yesterday.

The Judge wrote:

Conspiracy, you and Alf seem to be very well well versed in this techy stuff.
Let me throw this at you since I am not an engineer or computer wiz, otherwise I'd try to write what I am about to ask you.
Is it possible to write a virus protection program that would be something similar to artificial intelligence where computers are able to learn? For example, a virus protection program that would evolve and rewrite itself as new viruses enter the system. Can the virus program identify something new, that does not match anything benign, looks for some tag and then rewrites itself to attack that totally new virus?
I know it is farfetched, but you'd be amazed at how many farfetched ideas I have thought of but unable to invent because I don't have the technical know-how. Just a thought.:-)

Not far-fetched at all, Judge. That's how antivirus software works today.

New virus threats pop up every single day. Unlike the old-school viruses that would just kill your PC or delet your data--just for kicks--nowadays, the savvy virus-author knows your PC is worth far more alive than dead.

That's right, I said worth.

If a virus-author can craft a clever virus that will co-opt your PC without your knowledge, he/she can use it for all sorts of nefarious purposes: denial-of-service atacks on websites, brute-force password-guessing on FTP sites, Spam delivery, and the like. The more PCs they can get in their "Botnet," the beter--and there are loads of people willing to pay for the services of a Botnet, all of them up to NFG.

Because the virus-writers have gotten so clever, so too must your antivirus software. Normally, it updates itself every so often from the folks who wrote it with the latest threats--and there are thousands upon thousands of them.

But it also protects against what are called "zero-day" threats (threats that are not on the list that have come out _today,_ hence the term "zero-day"). It does this by monitoring closely the Windows files that are most likely to be attacked, and of a program tries to alter them, it stops it and alerts you. It will ultimately "learn," over time, what activities in your computer are permissible and which aren't--kind of like TiVo. This kind of trial-and-error learning, also called Heuristic learning, is one of the tenets of artificial intelligence.

Heh--sorry about the dupe, gang. I though my last response to The Judge wasn't published by Topix. :-)

Conspiracy Theorist wrote:

Heh--sorry about the dupe, gang. I though my last response to The Judge wasn't published by Topix.:-)

No problem, the same thing happened on mine...

Chewey wrote:

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isnt it amazing
men start and prolong wars
98% of pedophiles are men
the majority of crimes are committed by men

Women keep having them so shut up....

Let's see the tech's computer...

Conspiracy Theorist wrote:

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Actually, that's the state-of-the-art today.
With viruses entering the Net at the alarming rate with which they do, a number of antivirus manufacturers employ what's known as "zero-day protection."
In a nutshell, the antivirus program looks for the stuff it knows about (the updates it gets from its writers every so often in the form of over-the-web updates keeps that list up-to-date), and it also looks for "virus-like atcivity." It may not know the signature of the latest and greatest Botnet zombie-making virus, but it does know what files in your computer are the most likely to be attacked should one slip past the goalie. It also knows what ports to watch for Botnet programs that spew SPAM.
So whenever it sees "unusual" activity on those ports, or an attempt to change an important operating-system file that is not normally changed, it flags the activity and typically asks you if the activity is permissable.
How does it know what's "normal" and "abnormal?" A small degree of artificial intelligence is built in to the antivirus program. Plus, over time, it "learns," by way of your responses to it, what stuff is allowed activity and what stuff isn't--kind of like TiVo.
Neat, huh?

Dang CT, thanks for that info. I wish I had the knowhow to do this stuff. I would be a millionaire. I guess my ideas aren't that farfetched after all. Thanks :-)

alf wrote:

THE JUDGE.
A computer tech has every right to invade a computer. The computer does not belong to him it belongs to the university. The university monitors and can watch every thing you do their computers. the computer was borught in to be fixed because it was not working correctly. In order to trouble shoot a problem with a computer you have to "invade" a computer to diagnos a problem. Most likey those picture had a virus and the virus led them one of those files and that how they found it.

What most likely happened was that he got on some porn site that infected his computer with a virus and shut everything down. Being an idiot, he turned it over to the IT Dept who quickly neutralized the virus and found all of the kiddie porn. As an IT professional for major corporation, I see it 2-3 times a year. We quietly terminate the individual so that we are not found to be liable.