ICITAP: Committed to National Security and Human Rights
The International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program (ICITAP) is a law enforcement development organization whose mission is to work with foreign governments to develop effective, professional, and transparent law enforcement capacity...
Intelligent Computer Solutions and Stroz Friedberg introduce DiskCypher™; a simple and easy to use hardware encryption tool that protects critical digital data in the event of loss or theft. DiskCypher™ encrypts your evidence data "on the fly" during the initial imaging phase of a Computer Forensics Investigation. It simplifies the process of encrypting forensic images by using hardware to secure the sensitive data at the same time that forensic images are created. The DiskCypher™ is fully SATA-II compatible and uses the AES 192 bit encryption algorithm. (Intelligent Computer Solutions, Inc.)
Who Says You Can't Do That? Crime Scene Observation
Those of you who watched the early episodes of CSI Las Vegas may remember Grissom staring at the crime scene and then saying, "How did you die? Talk to me." His partner would then explain to the startled officers — and the viewers at home — that the scene "talked" to Grissom and helped him solve the crime. Everyone thought Grissom's behavior was funny, made just for TV. While Grissom may have gone about things in a quirky way, he was actually pointing out something that is true: crime scenes can talk to you. In this article, I'll explain how to use careful observation to get the crime scene to talk to you about the crime. Quoting Sherlock Holmes in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle, "You see but you do not observe."
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