Re:Apple Is Said to Be Working on an iPhone Even It Can’t Hack
by tptacek on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @07:34PM
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That sounds good until you remember the Bayesian Base Rate Fallacy: there are very few terrorists (the base rate of terrorism is very low), so filtering on "people with strong passphrases" is going to produce an overwhelming feed of false positives.
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Re:Apple Is Said to Be Working on an iPhone Even It Can’t Hack
by contravariant on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @09:02PM
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Be careful not to take the base rate fallacy too far, with enough difference in likelihood even a small base rate won't prevent an effect from being significant, and regardless of the base rate you'll still get some information out of it, it might just not be as much as you wanted.