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Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 06:46:43 -0800
To: cryptography@c2.net, Digital Bearer Settlement List <dbs@philodox.com>,
dcsb@ai.mit.edu
From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>
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[Interesting implications on automated traffic analysis... --Perry]
At 1:37 AM -0600 on 2/1/01, by way of believer@telepath.com wrote:
> GUARDIAN ANGEL
> We wouldn't go so far as to suggest that your are boring, but this
> week's New Scientist does have evidence that you are somewhat
> predictable. Especially when you use your mobile phone. Researchers at a
> London company have discovered that the numbers we ring, the length of
> our calls and the times of the day we make them are all characteristic
> behaviours that are very specific to us. Now, SearchSpace intends to use
> our "predictability" to develop a fraud-detection system which could
> help foil potential phone thieves. The new system has
> pattern-recognition software built into intelligent agents - called
> sentinels - which assemble behaviour profiles of subscribers on a
> network and demand user identification if they spot anything unusual.
> According to SearchSpace's Jason Kingdon, "It's like having a virtual
> software guardian assigned to each customer."
> http://www.newscientist.com/news/newsletter.jsp?id=ns9999370
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R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com>
The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/>
44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
"... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
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