Agreed, but I'm more interested in the legal implications here. According to prosecutors, if you're teaching people how to bypass a security control and you know they are concealing evidence of a crime, you could be liable. That's important to know and account for.
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Griffin Boyce <[email protected]> wrote: > Kyle Maxwell wrote: >> [Comment: This has implications for those of us involved in >> CryptoParty as well as other security education efforts.] >> >> The criminal inquiry, which hasn’t been acknowledged publicly, is >> aimed at discouraging criminals and spies from infiltrating the U.S. >> government by using the polygraph-beating techniques, which are said >> to include controlled breathing, muscle tensing, tongue biting and >> mental arithmetic. > > One can also mitigate galvanic skin response via adderall. GSR (and > polygraph as a whole) is *also* affected by such things as whether the > interviewer is the same race as you (Fischer & Kotses, 1973). It's not > admissible in court because it's not objective. Polygraph is arguably > not even science, and was created at a time when almost nothing was > known about the interplay between neurology and psychology. Spending > time investigating polygraph-defeators is completely useless. > > ~Griffin > > -- > "Cypherpunks write code not flame wars." --Jurre van Bergen > #Foucault / PGP: 0xAE792C97 / OTR: [email protected] > > My posts, while frequently amusing, are not representative of the thoughts of > my employer. > > -- > Liberationtech is a public list whose archives are searchable on Google. > Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, > change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at > [email protected]. -- @kylemaxwell -- Liberationtech is a public list whose archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at [email protected].
