Security News > 2020 > April > Friday Squid Blogging: On Squid Communication
2020-04-03 21:30
The issue with testing which is a form of sampling and the question of false positives and false negatives, and how they are seen as opposed to what they actually mean in any particular test situation.
Importantly contrary to claims you might hear there is no 100% test when sampling is involved, none and I do mean none.
2, Repeat the test over and over again untill averaging out the results starts to produce stable results.
Contrary to what the article implies even a test with quite a high false positive or false negative rate can be usefull.
It's tests with both high false positive and high false negative rates that are the actual problem.
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