Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Engineers Pioneer New Digital Forensics Technology
Engineers at the University of Maryland’s A James Clark school of engineering have just recently developed a powerful new digital fingerprinting technology in order to protect copyrighted materials from being stolen by “cyber criminals”. This is becoming increasingly important as more and more information is now stored digitally. Professor’s Min Wu and K.J. Ray Lui, have developed this technology that protects information from this new class of criminals. What this technology does, is for every user of the stolen media, a unique ID is attached to that individual, which can later be used to identify persons who contributed to the piracy attack. This ID performs much better than past methods, and it can be linked on audio, video, as well as special documents such as maps. Because of this practical application, theses digital fingerprints will be used by Hollywood movie producers, as well the department of homeland security, in order to trace the unauthorized distribution of sensitive information. In this case, the traitors can be traced through the use of Wu and Lui’s technology. This is a major forensics breakthrough especially as crimes adapt to the digital age that we live in today.
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Three things I enjoyed about the review were that it clearly stated what was developed, where it was developed, and who develped it. Two areas that could have been improved upon were including any cases that have been solved with this method and how the digital fingerprint is coded into the document. One thing that surprised me was that this can be used to trace almost anyone.
Thomas did a very nice job with this article. it was very clear on the origin of the development
Well done Thomas; you developed the topic of the story both clearly and thoughtfully. My only suggestion is to include any information on how the data for the digital ID is documented. It really is interesting how you can use this new ID to globally track almost anyone!
Nice article summary, it was well described and it was nice how you related it to piracy in movies. It was nice to know who developed it. It would have been nice to know how the data is used by the ID, otherwise it was very informative and the IDs were really interesting to find out about.
I think you did a really good job presenting your idea and your article, it was really easy to understand and there were plenty of facts. Although plenty of details were included, a few more might've made the article better. I think its pretty intense how they can pretty much trace almost anyone.
The article was presented very clearly and the information was informative. I would suggest adding a bit more detail about how one can commit the crime and then relate that to how the new technology is used. I found it interesting that this technology could track almost anyone, not just past suspects.
I thought that it was a well described article about digital ID.Although, I would like to know how we can use it to track down anyone. Either than that, it was really good!!
Nicely summarized! Very thorough and organized! I find this new method of digital fingerprinting to be interesting, however, I would have been helpful to include how it goes about getting documented. These IDs were fascinating! Good job!
I think that Thomas did very well on this article. He clearly explained the purpose and he gave examples of what the new digital fingerprinting technology did to help solve crimes. He got right to the point and it was very descriptive.
This is a well written review. it is very clear, it told me who and where. i would have like to have know some past cases where there has been problems with people taking fingerprint ID. however very well done.
The importance of developing brand new technology in the aid of forensics is always an important task. This article did a great job of explaining the potential of the new technology. The fact that you can track people through this new Identification tool is amazing, the ability of forensic scientists to stay updated on the status of important people will be more effective. Another good point in this article was who developed this advanced technology, crediting a person for a find as huge as this is very significant. If more data concerning the digital fingerprint coding were available, this article would be pretty much perfect.
I thought that this summary was well written, gave good detail, and was very informative. I found the article very interesting because i did not know that such tracing methods were being developed. It's great that there's now a way to stop the illegal distribution of information or movies. What I think could be added to the article is how exactly the fingerprint coding is able to trace a person.
This was a very interesting article to read as it had to do with an update in criminal technology, it was very descriptive and had good length, and it was very clear on the point it was trying to get across. The article could have mentioned recent cases that have demonstrated this new wave and maybe a brief description of how this works and is different from the other methods. This was an all around great article and fun to read.
This was a very interesting article to read as it had to do with an update in criminal technology, it was very descriptive and had good length, and it was very clear on the point it was trying to get across. The article could have mentioned recent cases that have demonstrated this new wave and maybe a brief description of how this works and is different from the other methods. This was an all around great article and fun to read.
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