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Measuring apathy? Don't worry, everything is going to be okay.


This is kind of like trying to op out getting into a car crash. Or better, getting robbed.

Hello Customer, Acct#6548856 we are not tracking you. No, some other company is tracking you. Were not doing it directly but we sure are buying data from companies who do.

Not getting tracked, I can think of a few companies that a large part of it's worth is by all the information they collect/track.

Facebook? - Last time I checked they don't pay employees minimum wage. When is the last time you had to pay Facebook to access it? Money is coming from someplace. Directly or indirectly someone is going to be tracking you.

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I wish it would read 'Executed' vs 'died'. I'm pretty sure crimes against humanity is a capital offense.


I work on the signal side of discovery. What do you have in mind?


One question that keeps coming to mind for me - how could you take a forensically sound image of a hard drive and prepare it for processing by a wide variety of tools in a non-serial manner? We spend a lot of our time searching through hard drive images... The current state of the art for indexing doesn't address the need to look for viruses, rootkits, keywords, CP, stego, etc etc at different stages of the investigation.


Good ole stego. Manual discovery is 99% of the fun!


Manual discovery is fun, 'til you have to sift through 1TB of data looking for it, and hidden TC containers, and rootkits, and and and and... Gets tedious, and inaccurate, quickly!


True. I've used VM's, kind of like ant farm to run images through a bunch of tests and see what happens. Most of it was hacked together. It would be interesting to see what kind stuff you could do with Cluster Computing when it comes to pulling apart everything.

I've had to do static analysis of memory images paired up with FPGA's for certain types of hardware. Yeah...It drains the life out of you.


Looking to put something together? I deal with hardware most of the time. I'm trying to get out of that world and into building applications.


Very much looking to put something together. I currently have one startup effort in the ediscovery space that I am working on, but I have cycles available to explore other options, and the desire to do so.


I'm on the lookout for interesting projects to hack-on and forensics would feel like home. If your still looking at this thread mail me at Bcounsell1 () Gm/ail <> com.


Do both, They will compliment each other.


Thanks @FirstHopSystems!


The greatest trick women have ever played is convincing the world they don't share secret stashes of female knowledge.


If there is a T-shirt in the future of that quote, can I get attribution credit :)


Haha yes...whoa a little late on my reply.


Check out "TheNewBoston" on youtube, he has a decent collection of Java tutorials.


I'm getting some weird traffic coming from one of the caches. It's been super slow for me.


Pretty soon..I'm sure it will be 30% of your advertising revenue. Rent? This is more like taking a chunk out of your paycheck. For all the employees out there I'm sure your company would love to take part of your check for the opportunity to work.

30%? do you get any other benefits from Apple? or is it "you take it and you like it."

Apple just has to do is sit there and let the small developers take all the risk. Are they loosing money on each phone sold? I can see charging a payment processing fee like PayPal. 30%? I just hope this doesn't set any precedent.


Make sure you use a real fake name. Not a fake fake name.



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