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OS fingerprinting Apple's iPhone 2.0 software - a "trivial joke"

Just like every decent web service out there wanting to identify the iPhone’s mobile Safari browser in order to serveiPhone Nmap Results custom applications, in this very same way malicious attackers would like to remotely identify iPhone devices through a basic pen-testing practice known as OS detection or OS fingerprinting. It seems that the difficulty level of identifying an iPhone device using nmap’s criteria is a “trivial joke”, namely, it’s too easy to accomplish :

Dancho Danchev: OS fingerprinting Apple's iPhone 2.0 software - a "trivial joke"

Just like every decent web service out there wanting to identify the iPhone’s mobile Safari browser in order to serveiPhone Nmap Results custom applications, in this very same way malicious attackers would like to remotely identify iPhone devices through a basic pen-testing practice known as OS detection or OS fingerprinting. It seems that the difficulty level of identifying an iPhone device using nmap’s criteria is a “trivial joke”, namely, it’s too easy to accomplish :

Inventor of DNA fingerprinting sees funny side of it

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DNA breakthrough makes it easier to identify suspects

A type of DNA analysis that could vastly increase the power of genetic fingerprinting has been developed by US scientists.

New Scientific Evidence Emerges In Anthrax Case

sciencehabit writes "A Science Magazine investigation uses clues from a key document unveiled last week to reconstruct the trail that led the FBI to Bruce Ivins. Among the revelations: Anthrax fingerprinting was not critical to the investigation, as many reports have suggested. Rather, brute-force genetic sequencing, with the help of the J. Craig Venter Institute, helped crack the case. New potential motivations by Ivins are also revealed."

DNA Bar Coding Finds Mislabeled Sushi

Hugh Pickens writes "The NY Times reports that Kate Stoeckle and Louisa Strauss, who graduated this year from the Trinity School in Manhattan, took on a freelance science project to check 60 samples of seafood using a simplified genetic fingerprinting technique called DNA Bar Coding to see whether the fish New Yorkers buy is what they think they are getting, and found that one-fourth of the fish samples with identifiable DNA were mislabeled: A piece of sushi sold as the luxury treat white tuna turned out to be Mozambique tilapia, a much cheaper fish that is often raised by farming. Roe supposedly from flying fish was actually from smelt." (More below.)

Media Monitors Obtains Technology Patent

White Plains, NY - Jul 10, 2008 - The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued patent #US 7,386,047 B2 for Media Monitors' method for determining likelihood of matches between source data and reference data, which was filed Aug. 19, 2003. This patent covers the data gathering and research firm's fingerprinting technology. In this process, retrieved audio samples are analyzed by the patented algorithm that enables Media Monitors to accurately identify additional occurrences. This unique technology helps Media Monitors process millions of pieces of data and deliver an accurate picture of what was aired on radio, TV and cable TV.

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