'Brain Fingerprinting' Touted As Truth Meter Monday, March 1, 2004. Brain fingerprinting touted as truth meter Scientist says guilt or innocence can be assessed by testing electrical brain waves. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/162685_brain01.html
Extractions: SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER "Brain fingerprinting" sounds like science fiction, but for one man it could be a matter of life and death. Larry Farwell, a Harvard-trained neuroscientist who works out of a small office in the Washington Technology Center on the University of Washington campus, hopes to use the case of Oklahoma death-row inmate Jimmy Ray Slaughter to convince law enforcement officials and the courts that the technique is scientifically sound and accurate. Farwell, whose father was a UW physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project, believes that Slaughter's case could be a key test of legal acceptance of the technique. Grant M. Haller / P-I
News In Science - New Sprays Catch Elusive Fingerprints - 28/11/2003 this week at a Sydney conference, Lifting the Identification Profile, which celebrated the 100th anniversary of the introduction of fingerprinting in Australia http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s998859.htm
Extractions: Fingerprints can now be lifted from rough surfaces (Erie County Sheriff's Office) Forensics experts will no longer need to collect fingerprints from smooth surfaces, according to Australian research, which has tested new chemical sprays that allow prints to be lifted from surfaces as rough as bricks.
Www.sbec.state.tx.us/SBECOnline/faq_fingerprinting.asp An Introduction to HTTP fingerprinting discussed in this paper. 2. Theory of fingerprinting. A fingerprint is defined as 4. Applications of HTTP fingerprinting. From a network management http://www.sbec.state.tx.us/SBECOnline/faq_fingerprinting.asp
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Cornell News: Fingerprint Study Practical reasons militate against wholesale rejection of fingerprinting, and I expect that the FBI and other organizations will try to upgrade its scientific http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Jan02/fingerprint.study.deb.html
Extractions: E-Mail: deb27@cornell.edu ITHACA, N.Y. Fingerprint identification, which recently was ruled by a Philadelphia federal judge to be scientifically flawed as evidence, is unlikely to be replaced by DNA profiling in the courts, says a Cornell University researcher. The main reason, he says: Police have come to rely on fingerprint analysis so heavily in presenting evidence. "There are so many cases in which there are no evidentiary equivalents, including DNA profiling. Practical reasons militate against wholesale rejection of fingerprinting, and I expect that the FBI and other organizations will try to upgrade its scientific credentials," says Michael Lynch, professor of science and technology studies at Cornell. Lynch and Simon Cole, a Cornell visiting scientist, have been awarded a $144,000 grant by the National Science Foundation to conduct a yearlong study comparing the scientific histories of DNA profiling and fingerprinting and the sociological implications of the two techniques in their use as evidence in placing criminal defendants at crime scenes. In 1995 Lynch made a study of the first national database of DNA profiles, set up by the British government. Cole is the author of the book Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification
NO To Ballistic Fingerprinting Send to a friend. NO to Ballistic fingerprinting by Bart Frazier, October 17, 2002. Such a tyrannical program is what ballistic fingerprinting implies. http://www.fff.org/comment/com0210f.asp
Extractions: by Bart Frazier October 17, 2002 From the bullet casing, police now know that the shooter is using a rifle that fires .223 caliber bullets. This is not much help because .223 is a common size, used in both military and hunting rifles. But there are those now arguing that the sniper killings are evidence of the need for a federal ballistic-fingerprint database. Bart Frazier is program director at The Future of Freedom Foundation Send to a friend back to top Subscribe to Freedom Daily.
Whitehats Network Security Resource Passive Host fingerprinting Small examples of mundane traffic Win2000 vs Redhat 6.1 Max Vision. UPDATE I haven t updated this http://www.whitehats.com/library/passive/
M235 Forensic Science At Murdoch University DNA fingerprinting. WARNING TO ALL USERS By accessing this site you agree to assume full responsibility and risk for any consequences http://wwwscience.murdoch.edu.au/teaching/m235/forensicdna.htm
Extractions: WARNING TO ALL USERS Allan Barton of Murdoch University has a strong interest in the teaching of forensic science, and initiated the Forensic Chemistry stream of the chemistry programme. The following links were selected as an information resource for the course "M235 Forensic Science". B OOKS Forensic DNA Profiling Protocols DNA Fingerprinting DNA Profiling and DNA Fingerprinting (Methods and Tools in Bioscience and Medicine) M ... Victoria Forensic Science Centre (see also 'Related Links' on this page) HUGO Ethics Committee Statement on DNA Sampling: Control and Access The Natural History of Genes Worldwide Forensic Resources on the Web (Scroll down to DNA) DNA Untwisted MIT Biology Hypertextbook: Mendelian Genetics Science on Trial: DNA Fingerprinting Kruglick Law Offices Forensic DNA Links ... Email for more information on M235 Forensic Science at Murdoch University (including 'continuing education' or 'not for degree' enrolment on a fee or cross-credit basis).
DNA Fingerprinting Articles related to DNA fingerprinting. The Code; DNA and OJ Simpson Testing Science and Justice. Instructional materials related to DNA fingerprinting. http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/course/topics/DNA.html
Cod "Fingerprinting" May Aid Conservation Cod fingerprinting May Aid Conservation. Email this story. In Association With Heroes of the Planet. Cod fingerprinting May Aid Conservation http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/09/0924_TVcod.html
Extractions: Until now there have been no means for determining where cod have been caught once they end up at the fish market. The three populations are so different that as few as two or three fish "can provide an unambiguous conclusion about the origin of the sample," Nielsen and his colleagues wrote in a scientific report published in the September 20 issue of the journal Nature.
ABCNEWS.com : Ballistic Fingerprinting: Can It Solve Crimes? Ballistic fingerprinting relies on the distinct marks, like fingerprints, left on a bullet by a weapon. But critics say the system http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DailyNews/ballistics_explainer.html
Extractions: Mom Hopes Mystery Boy Is Her Son ... Lowly Fruit Fly's Amazing Flight Secrets MORE ON THIS STORY FULL COVERAGE Sniper Attacks: Subindex VIDEO Inside the Hunt Living in Fear Tracking Serial Sniper Hunt For a Sniper COMMUNITY Ballistic Fingerprinting: Too Flawed to Fund? RELATED STORIES How to Be a Better Eyewitness Timeline of 11 D.C.-Area Sniper Attacks What Is It? Tracing Marks to the Killer Advocates for gun control want to expand the resources of ballistics investigators by creating a national computerized system for tracing bullets and shell casings to the guns that fired them. The system would require manufacturers to test-fire new guns before selling them to stores. Data detailing markings left on bullets by each weapon would then be entered into a computerized system known as IBIS. Proponents say a national ballistic fingerprinting system would allow investigators who have found a bullet or bullets at the scene of a crime to enter data about the bullet's markings into the database and then quickly retrieve possible gun matches. This information could help lead them to the gun's buyer and possibly the perpetrator.
The Sanger Institute : Danio Rerio Sequencing Project FTP Site, Sitemap, Zebrafish Genome fingerprinting Project. A fingerprinting map of the zebrafish genome has been generate in collaboration by three laboratories;. http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Projects/D_rerio/mapping.shtml
Extractions: D. rerio Overview Frequently asked questions Enquiries/Help clone seq project Select - MAPPING overview mapping contacts zebrafish fpc libraries details - BROWSE vega - SEARCH Blast Server vega Blast - STATUS INFO genome MOT Clone Status - DOWNLOAD EMBL file information ftp EMBL files - OTHER clone submission wgs seq project Select - ASSEMBLY Zv3 ensembl Zv3 Blast/SSAHA search marker search information ftp - ASSEMBLY Zv2 information ftp - ASSEMBLY Zv1/06 information ftp - TRACES trace repository SSAHA search traces - OTHER DAS Server other services Select online RepeatMasker contacts Select Help FAQs Resources Zebrafish Genome Fingerprinting Project A fingerprinting map of the zebrafish genome has been generate in collaboration by three laboratories; Contact Organisation Sean Humphray The Sanger Institute Romke Koch Hubrecht Laboratory ... Max-Planck Institute A bacterial clone physical map of the genome was constructed using restriction enzyme fingerprinting ( Marra et al ). Fingerprints were generated by digesting clones with HindIII. Following electrophoresis on agarose and data collection using a fluorimager, raw images are entered using the software IMAGE . This produces an output of normalised band values and gel traces. Analysis of data takes place in FPC . Clones are contiguated on the basis of shared bands. We have generated 20x coverage across the 1.6Gb genome. The map is providing a template for clone tile path selection, as a prerequisite for
Www.phrack.org remote OS TCP/IP stack fingerprinting techniques = Ofir http://www.phrack.org/show.php?p=57&a=7
CHAPTER #10: GENETIC ENGINEERING DNA fingerprinting. You will view the video Murder, Rape and DNA in lab and questions on it may appear in subsequent exams. MUTATIONS DNAfingerprinting. http://www.slic2.wsu.edu:82/hurlbert/micro101/pages/Chap10.html
Extractions: MICROBIOLOGY 101/102 INTERNET TEXT CHAPTER X: GENETIC ENGINEERING Updated: GLOSSARIES MICROBIOLOGY GENETICS MOLECULAR BIOLOGY The universal principle of molecular recognition. This should be very familiar to you by now, so it may turn up on exams. Every cell contains membrane-bound molecules exposed to the environment which communicate with it. These molecules act as the "eyes, ears and nose" of a cell. That is, they "see", or "smell" what other molecules are out there like a hunting dog winds its prey. They contain, as part of each molecule, specific regions on each molecule called RECEPTORS or BINDING SITES . Molecules in the environment contain specific components called LIGANDS that have the characteristic of binding or attaching (docking with) specifically at unique sites on the cell's receptor molecules. Following this attachment a number of different responses may occur. In some cases a message is passed to the interior of each cell as to the situation it has found, while in others the attached molecule may be transported into the cell. In the former case this information, in turn, triggers the cell to carry out a series of preprogrammed responses based on the data it has received; this is analogous to the Mars rover receiving commands from earth. We will discuss some of these responses throughout the course. Permission to use this cartoon was granted by
USENIX Technical Program - Abstract - Security Symposium - 2000 Abstract Security Symposium - 2000. Defeating TCP/IP Stack fingerprinting. Matthew Smart, G. Robert Malan, and Farnam Jahanian, University of Michigan Abstract. http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec2000/smart.html
Extractions: Abstract - Security Symposium - 2000 Matthew Smart, G. Robert Malan, and Farnam Jahanian, University of Michigan This paper describes the design and implementation of a TCP/IP stack fingerprint scrubber. The fingerprint scrubber is a new tool to restrict a remote user's ability to determine the operating system of another host on the network. Allowing entire subnetworks to be remotely scanned and characterized opens up security vulnerabilities. Specifically, operating system exploits can be efficiently run against a pre-scanned network because exploits will usually only work against a specific operating system or software running on that platform. The fingerprint scrubber works at both the network and transport layers to convert ambiguous traffic from a heterogeneous group of hosts into sanitized packets that do not reveal clues about the hosts' operating systems. This paper evaluates the performance of a fingerprint scrubber implemented in the FreeBSD kernel and looks at the limitations of this approach. View the full text of this paper in HTML form
Extractions: Jose Nazario November 27, 2000 ABSTRACT: Passive target fingerprinting involves the utilization of network traffic between two hosts by a third system to identify the types of systems being used. Because no data is sent to either system by the monitoring party, detection approaches the impossible. Methods which rely solely on the IP options present in normal traffic are limited in the accuracy about the targets. Further inspection is also needed to determine avenues of vulnerability, as well. We describe a method to rapidly identify target operating systems and version, as well as vectors of attack, based on data sent by client applications. While simplistic, it is robust. The accuracy of this method is also quite high in most cases. Four methods of fingerprinting a system are presented, with sample data provided. [full text - postscript] [full text - PDF (Acrobat)] UPDATE: A new link for the "siphon" project is available: http://gravitino.net/projects/siphon/ . This will get rolled into the next version of the paper which is forthcoming. Thanks to Nelson M. for the reminder.
Extractions: Contact Webmaster OS Detection/Fingerprint queso Remote O.S. detector. Sends obscure TCP pkts to determine remote OS. Fully configurable. Runs on Linux, Solaris and probably any OS with libpcap support siphon-v.666 Siphon is a passive OS fingerprinter which sniffs network traffic passing the local machine and uses characteristics of the TCP stream to identify the operating system running on the endpoints. Winfingerprint Winfingerprint is a Win32 Host/Network Enumeration Scanner. Winfingerprint is capable of performing SMB, TCP, UDP, ICMP, RPC, and SNMP scans. Using SMB, winfingerprint can enumerate OS, users, groups, SIDs, password policies, services, service packs and hotfixes, NetBIOS shares, transports, sessions, disks, security event log, and time of day in either an NT Domain or Active Directory environment. Winfingerprint-cli is a command line version of winfingerprint and it is currently bundled with each release. Cotse.Net
Howstuffworks "How DNA Evidence Works" Main Science Life Science How DNA Evidence Works. by Ann MeekerO Connell, http://science.howstuffworks.com/dna-evidence3.htm
Extractions: Now let's look at the exact steps used... DNA is isolated from a sample such as blood, saliva, semen, tissue, or hair. DNA has to be cleaned up, because, unlike in a pristine laboratory, samples at a crime scene are often contaminated by dirt and other debris. Sometimes, DNA must be isolated from samples dried to patches of cloth or carpet, and getting the sample safely out of these fabrics adds additional steps to the isolation and purification processes. The huge genome is cut up with restriction enzymes to produce short, manageable DNA fragments. These bacterial enzymes recognize specific four to six base sequences and reliably cleave DNA at a specific base pair within this span. Cleaving human DNA with one of these enzymes breaks the chromosomes down into millions of differently sized DNA fragments ranging from 100 to more than 10,000 base pairs long. You have to carefully select an enzyme that doesn't cut within any of the VNTR loci that are being studied; for RFLP analysis, the enzyme(s) chosen will ideally cut close to the end on the outside of a VNTR region.
