data retention causes a lot of problem, but if your name is fake, doe or stockholm you even get more of it.

old news recovered.

a hacker can figure out a key code by reading the amount of energy a semiconductor chip uses while processing. | technews

Fortt: How did you figure that out? Do you know of any systems that have been compromised using that method?

Kocher: We first discovered the problem in the mid 1990's while studying low-cost, non-invasive ways that keys could be compromised. We then found statistical methods that could identify keys even if the measurement quality is very poor, which made the attack very powerful. Pirates attacking pay TV systems have used power analysis attacks. Companies that make knock-off ink cartridges have also used the approach. Smart cards of all kinds also need to be protected, including those used for payment, mobile telephony, and identity applications. | utilitybelt

power analysis attacks are also known on rfid tacks.

this work will be complete september 2010 | tangram, proposer's information packet

technews quotes an article from National Journal (10/21/06) Vol. 38, No. 42, P. 57; Harris, Shane | subscription

Terrorist Profiling, Version 2.0
The document notes that up to now the guilt-by-association model has been the primary template for the derivation of suspicion scores, and this model has had considerable success in instances where a seed entity in a unknown group is known; "However, in the absence of a known seed entity, how do we score a person if nothing is known about their associates?" It describes Tangram as a system that "takes a systematic view of the [terrorist-detection] process, applying what is now a set of disjointed, cumbersome-to-configure technologies that are difficult for nontechnical users to apply, into a self-configuring, continuously operating intelligence analysis support system."| technews

one day there was a vision darpa called total information awareness (2001) renamed 2003 in terrorism information awareness program | wiki source

Among the shortcomings of terrorist profiling the Tangram document cops to is the difficulty of tracking terrorist behaviors in a constant state of flux, and terrorism researchers' inability to "readily distinguish the absolute scale of normal behaviors" either for terrorists or innocents. |technews

called intelligence value estimation.