Category: Miscellaneous

CitySec meetup in Los Angeles

24 May, 2007 (15:31) | Miscellaneous | No comments

For those of you who haven’t already seen CitySec, it’s worth stopping by.  CitySec.org is a site created by Thomas Ptacek (from Matasano Chargen) to facilitate gatherings of information security professionals.  The tone of the meetings appears to be quite relaxed, to quote “What is a CitySect Meetup?“:
The rule of thumb is, no more structure [...]

Digital forensics in a comic

10 January, 2007 (16:26) | Miscellaneous | 1 comment

I saw this the other day. Hmmm… sifting through lots of data to find specific pieces of information, I think I see an interesting application for this…

http://xkcd.com/c208.html

Deductive and Inductive reasoning

18 October, 2006 (18:22) | Digital forensics, Fundamentals, Miscellaneous | No comments

One thing that I see on a fairly regular basis is confusion between deductive and inductive reasoning. Both types of reasoning play different roles in investigations/forensics/science/etc. The difference between the two is sometimes hard to define. Here are two common defintions:
1. With deductive reasoning, the conclusions are contained, whether explicit or implicit, in the premises. [...]

The switch to Levenger

21 June, 2006 (15:38) | Miscellaneous | No comments

For years I’ve carried around a small notebook, one of the spiral bound that is almost a 3×5 card size. I’ve even got a nice leather cover for them somewhere at my Dad’s house. I normally use the notebook to do things like take case notes, observations, grocery lists, etc. The most recent notebook had [...]