You know, it occurs to me that while Apple made it tougher for someone to get into your data through a phone backup, they made it super easy for law enforcement to unlock a phone, didn’t they? And in many countries—including the US—the police can legally force you to use your fingerprint to unlock your…
First off, the answer to the question in the title is, yes, of course. But, this is one point that really stuck with me, because over the years as a trainer, and working in law firms, I’m always left a little stunned by lawyers who talk about not knowing what the search for until they…
This should be interesting. “Sean Morrissey, CEO of Katana Forensics has seen the beta versions of iOS 11 and now that the GM is available, his concerns for the Digital Forensics community hit the red alert status. His cause for the alert? In the soon-to-be released version of iOS, extracting data via the standard Apple…
There is lots to enjoy in this article by Doc Searls about what he calls “adtech”. To give you a brief explanation, it starts with this quote: In old-fashioned publishing, advertising was advertising; but in the digital world, advertising has been replaced by adtech, which is based on tracking and has become a cancer on…
I still use Feedly to follow RSS feed, because I know that I’m going to get everything I want to see. No social media company is going to decide for me, and no social media company is keeping track of what I click on or don’t click on. One of the main reasons RSS is…
This is interesting to me, because it is almost exactly one of the examples I used to use in training to talk about analytical tools. “One of the key enablers is the analysis of email traffic and calendar metadata. This tells us a lot about who is talking to whom, in what departments, what meetings…