{"id":802,"date":"2002-02-01T19:10:00","date_gmt":"2002-02-01T23:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=802"},"modified":"2002-02-01T19:10:00","modified_gmt":"2002-02-01T23:10:00","slug":"the-base-rate-fallacy-and-its-implications-for-the-difficulty-of-intrusion-detection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2002\/02\/01\/19\/10\/the-base-rate-fallacy-and-its-implications-for-the-difficulty-of-intrusion-detection\/","title":{"rendered":"The Base-Rate Fallacy and its Implications for the Difficulty of Intrusion Detection"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Base-Rate Fallacy and its Implications for the Difficulty of Intrusion Detection<\/a> limits the effectiveness of any<\/i><\/b> of these huge Orwellian technological profiling systems<\/a> dumb people are putting their faith in. And the tragedy is, they’re too dumb to realise it. And yet here we are, entering an endless 1984<\/i>-themed 21st century of endless war, expedient lies, and ubiquitous social control<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n

Maybe Old Osama was thinking along the same lines:
\nI tell you, freedom and human rights in America are doomed. The US Government <\/a>will lead the American people – and the West in general – into an unbearable hell and a choking life<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n

Or that cliched Neitszche quote:
\nHe who fights monsters should look into it that he himself does not become a monster. When you gaze long into the Abyss, the Abyss also gazes into you<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n

Actually, given the trouble they have locating Bin Laden, this other Neitszche is also appropriate:
\nHe who lives by fighting with an enemy has an interest in the preservation of the enemys’ life<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Base-Rate Fallacy and its Implications for the Difficulty of Intrusion Detection limits the effectiveness of any of these huge Orwellian technological profiling systems dumb people are putting their faith in. And the tragedy...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t