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Searching for Resources on Forensic Computing?

Posted by Cliff on from the if-the-weekly-fix-of-CSI-isn't-enough dept.

Computer-quincyME asks: "I am very interested in forensic computing (using computers to help forensics, like in blood spatter analysis, geographic profiling etc.) but despite some extensive Googling, I'm not able to find any decent site that contains information on current forensic problems that don't have yet an acceptable computing implementation (I'd like to try my hand at writing some forensic software in my spare time, and I wouldn't want to reinvent the wheel, but to create something useful). Any forensics experts in the Slashdot crowd that could give me a hand? Do you know of any tasks you have to routinely do these days by hand that you would kill to have more automated? Also, how did you end up in your current job?"

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  1. www.sans.org by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Check out the reading room at www.sans.org.

  2. bullet matching software by ubiquitin · · Score: 2, Informative

    Six years ago, when I was an undergrad B.Sc. chemistry major in the Midwest, I took a tour of the area police crime lab. At the time the police had a "cutting edge" SGI system which allowed them to exchange via a network close-up photographs of bullets for comparison in a database. The idea was that the imaging system helped them to match up bullets being fired from the same gun (rifling leaves a signature) in an effort to catch trigger-happy interstate criminals. I have no doubt that this system could use improvements and integration with open source image analysis tools at this point. Good luck with your ambition. Forensics is one of the broadest areas, because it is at the interface between law and medicine/science/technology - anything that can be used in a courtroom, really.

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  3. Re:some resources that i have used by Cy+Guy · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes, it appears that several people are misinterpreting the questioning. He wants Computer resources for criminal forensics (stufy of blood spatters, bullet casings, fingerprints, etc. things you find on CSI or Crossing Jordan. You and other have identified information on Forensic Computing (HD recovery, decrypting passwords, etc.)

    What he is looking is sites like: SPEX Forensic Light Sources and AFIS/APIS, Imaging Forensics,Interpol's Forensics Info page, or Zeno's Forensic Forum (this last site has a bunch of links to explore further).

    Of course, to get to these you also have to avoid all the sites that relate to Forensics, the scientific term given to debate team.

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