Last week I volunteered along with someone else to be a course rep.
Today it was made official I am a joint course rep. I have my first board meeting on Monday which I am looking forward, but also feeling a little apprehensive about it. Mainly because I don't know exactly what to expect, or how seriously our opinions are taken.
I have a fair idea of what people are complaining about but for those in the group don't hesitate to come talk to me.
On a different subject I was reading a court case review on the train yesterday. It related to an anti-terrorist trial. I won't go into the details but one thing that seemed to stand out like a sore tumb, was the fact that the case hinged on getting one of the defendants to give the police a password. My question is, why couldn't the police use digital forensics to bypass it? You could maybe argue that it was because the password was too strong or that they didn't know what was used to encrypt it. But reading between the lines it struck me that it was because they were not allowed to!
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There was a case in San Francisco earlier this year, where a system admin locked a new multi-million dollar WAN system with a password only he knew, after being arrested for computer sabotage. While in custody, the guy refused to tell anyone what he had set the password to, meaning the system was up and running but completely inaccessible.
ReplyDeletePayroll documents and details about law enforcement officials were stored and managed on the system - making it rather valuable and essential - so the guy who got arrested was smart I guess. Unfortunately, he had his bail set at $5million owing to his refusal to disclose the password.
Some interesting cases here - you'll be looking at the law in future modules, but it's useful to remember these cases to 'bring up' then.
ReplyDeleteGenerally a good blog, with some interesting information here. Looking forward to reading the next post.
Interesting post, password thing did puzzle me at first but after forensic fundmentals lecture I understand it,anyway good stuff dom keep it up!
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