by Steve Burgess | Nov 30, 2015 | Uncategorized
Drama. Drama is the touchstone for reporting. We have to look well around this particular stone in order to catch a realistic impression of the virtual. We have to look around it even to understand what CyberWar is or how it is defined. When talking about cyberwar,...
by Steve Burgess | Nov 23, 2015 | Uncategorized
Several news articles have referred to Russian surveillance at the just-concluded Sochi Olympics as “Prism on Steroids.” Surely they jest. Prism, the NSA’s widely cast surveillance net, is practically the definition of (cybersurveillance) steroids....
by Steve Burgess | Nov 16, 2015 | Uncategorized
On the morning of May 21, something happened. Suspicion fell first on kids playing with matches. But a Fire Department investigation soon revealed that it was faulty wiring in the walls that started the fire. The temporary building that permanently housed the Pine...
by Steve Burgess | Nov 9, 2015 | Uncategorized
Backup, backup, backups! If there’s one thing I’ve learned in 30 years and close to 20,000 data recoveries, it’s that everybody doesn’t back up their data sometimes. Nobody backs up their data all of the time, most people never back up their...
by Steve Burgess | Oct 26, 2015 | Uncategorized
I was taking a small midday break from my computer forensics lab to enjoy a few minutes of a sunny 75 degree June day in my Santa Barbara County office when I got the call from a Tino Zatara, Boston lawyer. He was sweating and it wasn’t just because Boston was...
by Steve Burgess | Oct 19, 2015 | Uncategorized
It was a balmy summer day in Marin County, back near the beginning of my computer forensics career. Back in the day – before we called it that – I had testified as an expert witness only a few times. My feet weren’t flat yet, my shoes not yet...
