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Alternative Forensic Awards
You wanted a Monkey…and for your sins, I gave you one. It’s not that I haven’t wanted to write more blog posts, it really isn’t. Ideas come to me, then fade. Sometimes I wonder if I should do some actual forensic posts, but then as soon as I’ve finished doing something new or interesting I […]
High-Tech Crime Trading Cards
September 8, 2011
Son of Monkey has recently got heavily into Pokemon and, to a lesser extent, Yu-Gi-Oh. I’m a nerdy type of a guy in many ways (no, really!) but I have to admit that these things send me into a bit of a headspin and I’m afraid that I Just Don’t Get It. I was flicking […]
Animalising the HTCU
June 23, 2011
And what woof-beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Monkeytown to be born? (with apologies to W.B. Yeats) The Monkey family acquired a dog this week. He’s a lovely little fella, black-and-white and with a colourful ethnic mix of basset, border collie, staffie and a few others. He came with a name, and […]
The MCCF Good Practice Guide for Computer-Based Electronic Evidence
May 26, 2011
As good forensicators, I hope that we’re all familiar with the ACPO ‘Good Practice Guide for Computer-Based Electronic Evidence’. For those outside the UK, this is the booklet produced by the Association of Chief Police Officers covering the dos and don’ts for the seizure, analysis and presentation of computery stuff by Law Enforcement in the […]
HTCU Simulator
January 27, 2011
You can get simulator games for almost every activity these days. I had a job a few years ago where the suspect spent days on end flying virtual airliners around the world – he spoke with contempt of people who skipped the ‘long bits’, and would only share his hobby with other hardcore pilots who […]
A Playlist for the Forensic Workday
August 12, 2010
We often have music on in the office over at Monkeytown HTCU – it provides a soundtrack to the day, stimulates conversation and is great for getting in the zone when you need to. Often it’s dance or 80s hits, but we try to get a good mix of songs going. None of the music […]
A Pantheon for Computer Forensics
July 3, 2010
It’s become clear to me that the world has gone downhill since monotheism took over. Look back a millennium or two and the religious landscape seems a lot healthier – everyone had lots of gods, and a far healthier relationship with them. Also, gods back in those days were fun. Taking the Greeks, Romans and Vikings as […]
The ACPO Conference – Subversive Plans
July 2, 2010
So, the ACPO conference is in its last day as I write this. This year’s bunfight – dubbed the ‘Cybercrime Conference’, presumably by someone in charge of thinking up cringe-inducing names for conferences – seems to have been the usual mixture of high-level waffle, vendors trying to flog stuff to people with no money, and […]
Motivating the Forensic Team
June 29, 2010
Yup, I know it’s been a while since my last post. I’ve been busy with one thing and another, and kinda ran out of inspiration a bit as well. I’ve got a load of half-written posts that weren’t really tickling me, so I hope that this one satisfies your monkey-lust until I can get back […]
The acquisition will not be televised
May 10, 2010
On the unfilmability of computer forensics, and ways to incorporate it into TV anyway. I mentioned in a previous post that when they come to make a film of my life, the forensics would be real rather than over-dramatised Hollywood fluff. After considering this idea for a while, and taking on board the comments, I’ve […]
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Happy as a Monkey 
April 5, 2012
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