Centennial Man

Wednesday, August 25, 2021

Start small but start now!

https://www.csoonline.com/article/3629465/how-windows-admins-can-get-started-with-computer-forensics.html#tk.rss_all

How Windows admins can get started with computer forensics

Analyzing forensics logs requires a unique approach. Here are the basics of what you need to know and the tools to use.

… Computer forensics is a combination of understanding exactly what a computer is doing, the evidence it leaves behind, what artifacts you are looking at, and whether you can come to a conclusion about what you are seeing.

(Related) Practical applications.

https://www.cpajournal.com/2021/08/24/natural-language-processing/

Natural Language Processing

… This article uses a simple case study to show how NLP can benefit a forensic accountant who is analyzing transaction data in a fraud investigation. This case study demonstrates the use of R, an open-source programming language used for data analysis and statistical computing, as well as RStudio, an open-source desktop application that uses R programming for analysis (see https://www.rstudio.com )

Are we working our way to a mandatory digital passport?

https://www.pogowasright.org/opentable-to-use-clear-facial-recognition-to-id-vaccinated-customers/

OpenTable to Use CLEAR Facial Recognition To ID Vaccinated Customers

“To help diners easily provide proof of vaccination at restaurants requiring it to dine indoors, OpenTable and secure identity company CLEAR are partnering to offer diners a simple way to show proof of vaccination through CLEAR’s digital vaccine card.”

Read more on Open Table.

Thanks to Joe Cadillic for sending this along. Anyone else have a problem with CLEAR colecting and storing even more personal information?

Perhaps there will be a market for software that lies to employers?

https://www.makeuseof.com/reality-employee-surveillance-software-explained/

The Reality of Employee Surveillance Software for Remote Workers, Explained

… So, what are employers looking for exactly?

Though tools like Time Doctor, DeskTime, and Teramind seem to be in demand, the volume of internet searches for surveillance software-related keywords offers a glimpse into the hivemind, showing that there are 26 popular employee surveillance tools.

Of those 26 popular tools, 81 percent are capable of keystroke logging, 61 percent offer instant messaging monitoring, 65 percent send user action alerts, and 38 percent have remote control takeover capabilities.

Perhaps not at the level of GDPR, yet.

https://www.bespacific.com/machines-learning-the-rule-of-law-eu-proposes-the-worlds-first-artificial-intelligence-act/

Machines Learning the Rule of Law – EU Proposes the World’s first Artificial Intelligence Act

Via LLRX – Machines Learning the Rule of Law – EU Proposes the World’s first Artificial Intelligence Act – Sümeyye Elif Biber is a PhD Candidate in Law and Technology at the Scuola Sant’Anna in Pisa. In 21 April 2021, the European Commission (EC) proposed the world’s first Artificial Intelligence Act (AIA). The proposal has received a warm welcome across the EU as well as from the US, as it includes substantial legal provisions on ethical standards. After its release, the media’s main focus laid on the proposal’s “Brussels Effect”, which refers to the EU’s global regulatory influence: EU laws exceed their “local” influence and become global standards. With the AIA, the EU has the potential to become the world’s “super-regulator” on AI. More than the Brussels Effect, however, the emphasis should lie on the EU’s intention to explicitly protect the rule of law against the “rule of technology”. Despite this expressed goal, the normative power of the regulation to ensure the protection of the rule of law seems inadequate and raises serious concerns from the perspective of fundamental rights protection. This shortcoming becomes most evident across three main aspects of the AIA, namely in the regulation’s definition of AI systems, the AI practices it prohibits, and the preeminence of a risk-based approach.

My AI claims it prefers a virtually indestructible, easily updated body to a ‘meat body’ vulnerable to tiny little viruses like Covid.

https://thenextweb.com/news/killer-robots-easier-for-ai-erase-minds-steal-bodies

Killer robots? Get real. It’ll be easier for AI to just erase our minds and steal our bodies

… Right now the general public’s terrified of robots. But robots are just computers that move.

What if the only way for AI to become sentient is to do it the old fashioned way: with an organic body?

The end of lawyering?

https://www.bespacific.com/robots-are-coming-for-the-lawyers/

Robots are coming for the lawyers – which may be bad for tomorrow’s attorneys but great for anyone in need of cheap legal assistance

Via LLRX – Robots are coming for the lawyers – which may be bad for tomorrow’s attorneys but great for anyone in need of cheap legal assistance – Imagine what a lawyer does on a given day: researching cases, drafting briefs, advising clients. While technology has been nibbling around the edges of the legal profession for some time, it’s hard to imagine those complex tasks being done by a robot. And it is those complicated, personalized tasks that have led technologists to include lawyers in a broader category of jobs that are considered pretty safe from a future of advanced robotics and artificial intelligence. As Professors Elizabeth C. Tippett and Charlotte Alexander discovered in a recent research collaboration to analyze legal briefs using a branch of artificial intelligence known as machine learning, lawyers’ jobs are a lot less safe than we thought. It turns out that you don’t need to completely automate a job to fundamentally change it. All you need to do is automate part of it.