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Disk Wiping with dcfldd

July 3, 2011 |  by  |  Data Destruction, Featured Articles, Linux  |  ,  |  10 Comments

Did you know that a real ninja was once employed by the Defense Computer Forensics Laboratory or DCFL for short? During Nick's employment at DCFL, he coded "dcfldd", an enhanced version of the "dd" program found in GNU Core Utilities (GNU coreutils). dcfldd is still used quite often when imaging digital evidence.Not only is it used by DCFL and other alphabet soup but by individuals working in the private sector.

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US Senators Target the Silk Road

The Silk Road is an anonymous hidden service that you can access via the Tor network. It allows people to sell mind altering chemicals and plants in a more private and safe marketplace. In light of this coming legislation, you will likely not be targeted by computer forensics initially. This is because of the transaction and network technologies used to make the purchases. Now, this could be different if you use the same Bitcoin address publicly on your beanie-baby website that you do to receive heroin payments.

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WhisperCore Update and Release of WhisperYAFFS

Whisper Systems has released an update to WhisperCore and released their source code for WhisperYAFFS.

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WhisperCore Partition Encryption for Nexus S

March 16, 2011 |  by  |  Android, Anti-Forensics News, Encryption  |  4 Comments

WhisperCore uses AES 256 to encrypt the data partition on the Nexus S (the Nexus S has 16GB of internal memory) and contains an option to encrypt the SD card.

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Five New Arrests Related to the Online Protests Regarding Operation Payback

January 27, 2011 |  by  |  Anti-Forensics News, FBI  |  , ,  |  No Comments

The BBC reports that five new people have been arrested in connection to the DDoS attacks on businesses such as PayPal and Amazon.

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Hunting Anonymous

December 31, 2010 |  by  |  Anonymity, Anti-Forensics News, FBI  |  ,  |  26 Comments

Sure, the install date on my OS might be from a week ago and you can't recover anything from before that date but it's because I had to reinstall. 'cause I was going to my favorite Justin Beiber fan blog and got a virus. Fuck you Beiber.

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Freedom Almighty and the RedPhone Application for Android

December 9, 2010 |  by  |  Android  |  ,  |  6 Comments

Freedom Almighty and the RedPhone application by Whisper Systems. True story.

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Reverse Tunnel Proxy: Anonymity Tips

November 12, 2010 |  by  |  Anonymity  |  , , ,  |  2 Comments

In some ways it is kind of like wearing a condom. Usually you're OK, but some spermicide spray or a breakfast omelet with crushed morning after pill can always ...

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Commenter IP Logging: Disabled

November 7, 2010 |  by  |  Announcement  |   |  No Comments

Blog commenter IP logging has been disabled. IP addresses of those leaving comments are no longer recorded.

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Saudi Arabia Bans BlackBerry’s

August 4, 2010 |  by  |  News, Privacy  |  , , ,  |  11 Comments

So what do you do when you can't eavesdrop on your citizens personal and private communications?

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