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Interesting Internet-Based Investigative Techniques

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In this article, detailing the Australian and then worldwide investigation of a particularly heinous child-abuse ring, there are a lot of details of the pedophile security practices and the police investigative techniques. The abusers had a detailed manual on how to scrub metadata and avoid detection, but not everyone was perfect. The police used information from a single camera to… Continue reading Interesting Internet-Based Investigative Techniques→

Snowden says It’s a ‘Dark Day for Russia’ after Putin Signs Anti-Terror Law

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Whistleblower and ex-NSA employee Edward Snowden has criticized a new anti-terror law introduced on Thursday by Russian President Vladimir Putin, referring it as “repressive” and noting that it is a “dark day for Russia.”

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New Russian law to force service providers to decrypt encrypted comms

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An extremely wide-ranging anti-terrorism law has been passed last week by the lower house of the Russian Federal Assembly (i.e. parliament), and it is widely expected to pass the upper house without a hitch and be signed into law by president Putin within the next few weeks. Proposed by right-wing politician Irina Yarovaya, the new law will bring tougher punishments for extremism and international terrorism, make failure to report a crime, as well as justifying … More → Continue reading New Russian law to force service providers to decrypt encrypted comms→

Identifying People from Their Metadata

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Jonathan Mayer, Patrick Mutchler, and John C. Mitchell, "Evaluating the privacy properties of telephone metadata": Abstract: Since 2013, a stream of disclosures has prompted reconsideration of surveillance law and policy. One of the most controversial principles, both in the United States and abroad, is that communications metadata receives substantially less protection than communications content. Several nations currently collect telephone metadata… Continue reading Identifying People from Their Metadata→

Why an open archive API is needed to transfer data between cloud services

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Microsoft is listed as one of the “Challengers” in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Information Archiving (29 October 2015), which is testimony to the hard work and effort put into building out the compliance features over the last few years since their debut in Exchange 2010.

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Observations on the Surveillance that Resulted in the Capture of Salah Abdeslam

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Interesting analysis from The Grugq: Bottom Line Up Front Intelligence agencies must cooperate more rapidly and proactively to counter ISIS’ rapid and haphazard operational tempo. Clandestine operatives must rely on support networks that include overt members of the public. These networks are easily mapped out based on metadata available to nation state level security forces. Fugitives should learn to cook… Continue reading Observations on the Surveillance that Resulted in the Capture of Salah Abdeslam→