Google says PC will be irrelevant in 3 years

Google says PC will be irrelevant in 3 yearsInteresting article in The Register:http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/05/google_says_pc_will_be_irrelevant_in_three_years/I can see where Google is coming from because I have similar thoughts about how mobile phones and SIM/USIM cards, as devices, are making significant inroads to provide functions and features traditionally provided by computers.

Forensic Science Regulator

Forensic Science Regulator.I would urge all of you who examine mobile telephones and computers that if you want to do public sector work for evidence in civil and criminal proceedings in the UK and you are not on the Forensic Science Regulator's (FSR) list of approved suppliers then you may not get any work at all..Dr Chris Pamplin from the UK Register of Expert Witnesses has presented some open

Writing To Mobile Phones Under Examination

Writing To Mobile Phones Under ExaminationThere is always the debate as to what amounts to "forensic" processes and whether that can be left to human intervention to do that, whether a device alone can do that or whether it is the combination of human intervention and the device working together that can fulfil the objective? Perhaps germane and relevant to the above question is (1) knowing the

FORENSIC RECRUITMENT

FORENSIC RECRUITMENTI get alot of enquiries asking about computer and mobile telephone recruitment. I try and answer as many queries as I can but I can't deal with all enquiries for those seeking employment. Moreover, it seems to me, at any rate, that alot of enquiries I get would be better directed to a recruitment consultant who specialises in this area and is more able to deal with the

Forensic CaseNotes

Forensic CaseNotesJohn Douglas of QCC Information Security (http://www.qccis.com/content.php?section=forensics) has produced a new program for preparing contemporaneous notes during examination. Forensic CaseNotes is available free of charge. Nice one, John.IntroductionThe purpose of CaseNotes is to provide a single lightweight application program to run on the Microsoft Windows platform to allow

Deleted SMS text messages

Deleted SMS text messagesGSM 11.11 (ETSI TS 100 977) is a Standard containing mandatory and optional requirements relevant to Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards. An optional service that an Operator may provide to a subscriber of its services is Short Message Service (SMS) text messaging. The requirements relating to storing sent and received SMS text messages, in the user memory area of the

Mobile Telephone Evidence

MCC AND MNC CODESAs examination of SIM Cards and Handsets is on the increase internationally, thus roaming is relevant, the list below identifies Mobile Country Codes (e.g. 234) and Mobile Network Codes (e.g. 44) for global Mobile Operators. Please note the data are subject to change.20201 Cosmote Greece20205 Vodafone Greece20209 Q-Telecom Greece20210 Telestet Greece20404 Vodafone

Mobile Telephone Evidence

GSM radio coverage bounces backwardA characteristic of radio signals is that they reflect off surfaces. Not startling or new news in itself, unless one considers its impact on radio coverage propagated North, but due to reflection, can be detected for instance in the South East or South West, behind the Sector of the Mast. In yet another case, I am told that at the Central Criminal Court evidence

Mobile Telephone Evidence

Code and Data go hand in handExaminers are familiar with the fact that from time to time found appended to SMS text messages there appears unintelligible code that cannot be read in context with the user's message itself. Such code as @@@ or /./@@ and so on may raise the notion that the SIM reader has not decoded the message correctly. On the contrary, the SIM reader is most likely to have done

Mobile Telephone Evidence

Mobile Telephone Call RecordsCall Records obtained from the network operator provide the factual evidence of communications between parties to illustrate contact and association. Since July 2000 Single Point of Contact rules, the operator needs to exhibit call records and serve a statement of that fact. However, a compilation may be created by an case officer, served as an Exhibit using material

Mobile Telephone Evidence

SMS texts to audio - mobile to landlines For those for you who are unaware, SMS messages can now be sent to landline telephones by dialling a landline destination number. The landline telephone receiving the message does not need to have text capability to read the messages. Instead, the text messages are translated andconverted into audio speech. Whilst this seems a good idea, some problems

Mobile Telephone Evidence

7F10:6F44

For those of you who have attended my GSM Mobile Telephone SIM forensic Card training courses will know the user content elementary file (EF LND) Last Number Dialled. We know from the GSM SIM Standard that this EF is optional, but once allocated and activated in SIM, has a number of mandatory features. The EF stores the number dialled by the user. In the words of the academic authors