Would you prefer if I rephrased to say 'deadlier for Americans'? You can argue the semantics, but the point stands. More Americans died from gunshots on the streets around Obama's home than in the streets sounding the former palace of Saddam Hussein.
I want the Senator to tell us whether he believes that peoples of Chicago should be prevented from owning handguns to protect themselves in their homes. Because, the police aren't able to do so, and we can't all have a security detail stationed at either end of our block.
Senator Obama, you voiced limited approval for the Supreme Court's Heller decision, overturning the handgun ban (as it related to self defense in the home) in the District of Columbia. You stated, "As President, I will uphold the constitutional rights of law-abiding gun-owners, hunters, and sportsmen. I know that what works in Chicago may not work in Cheyenne."
Given that the streets of Chicago were deadlier this summer than the streets of Baghdad, is the handgun ban 'working' in Chicago? And, is it Constitutional?
I won't speak to why or whether you should do it, but here are a few options for how.
Doculex has an app called MPTiffIt that will do single to multi or multi to single page tiff conversion. You'd need to convert the PDFs to single page tiff via Save As (or perhaps a Batch Process), then recombine them with MPTiffIt.
Or, you could use a Tiff printer driver along with a batch printing software.
Personally, I'd use L.A.W. (Legal Access Ware, created by Image Capture Engineering and now owned by Lexis Nexis), which is a full production scanning, OCR and e-doc conversion suite. You can import any type of doc that can be printed and output single or multi-page tiffs of PDFs with a variety of database/unitization load files. Similar products by IPro and Doculex exist. Any litigation support vendor should have one of these tools, and would likely charge a relatively nominal fee (per GB) to perform the conversion for you.
Yes, anyone can claim their a forensics expert. That's why it's up to the courts to determine whether a certain person is qualified to testify as an expert witness. And, that's why it's up to that person to document and justify the steps they took in obtaining and analyzing the data in question. Certain professional certifications (CCE, ISFCE) exist for forensic computer examiners. Adding the PI requirement is unnecessary, nanny-state BS. I work for a law firm, I could be considered an expert in legal technology and I have my CCE. I shouldn't have to go jump through hoops to get a PI license to do my job which I am fully qualified to do. At the same time, most PIs are not in the least bit qualified to do what I do.
"A full format then goes and zeros all the sectors."
I don't believe that's true. I believe a full format simply marks all the sectors as unallocated space, not writes 0s. There's a big difference. I've recovered tons of data from a drive that I just formatted (not quickformat) using FTK. If it had been overwritten, that shouldn't have been possible.
What matters how many times? As you say, there's a big difference between formatting and wiping.
I don't believe there's any conclusive evidence that data can be recovered from a drive that has been written entirely to 0s or 1s once. In other words, the DoD/NSA standard is over-kill.
I'm less (but still pretty) certain that repeated Windows formats will not make data any less accessible. The only way to make sure data can't be recovered from unallocated space or carved out of file slack is to overwrite those sectors, which a Windows format does not do.
There's some pretty good FUD coming from the developers here, as well..
They make it seem like a huge problem that EnCase isn't entirely secure against potential attacks from the target machine. Well...the only time I'd use a software acquisition method is when a hardware acquisition is strictly out of the equation (i.e. live & critical servers that cannot under any circumstances be shut down). How likely are the servers for an airline's ticketing system to be booby-trapped?
They're creating problems and foisting them on the software when the exisitng software is far less likely to ever be used in such situations.
It doesn't matter how many times, it only matters which methods are used. If you're just using a Windows format (or worse, quick format), you can run it 100 times and the data will still be accessible.
That said, the DoD standard for "wiping" a drive is also excessive in what it requires to declare the media clean. (All 0s, then all 1s, then 010101..., then all 0s again...blah blah blah)
My somewhat expert opinion is that a program that writes the drive to all 0s or all 1s is all you need.
You assume that the company "reasonably anticipated litigation" because a low-level associate received an e-mail from someone with an axe to grind that obliquely hinted at the possibility of hiring an attorney? I think that supposition would be laughed out of most courts.
IANAL, but I am a Litigation Technology Admin for a major IP firm:
As far as retention/compliance goes, this isn't SOX for everyone who might ever be sued...I think having retention policies (and following them) becomes more important (ex. amended rule 37(f) creates an explicit safe harbor in the event that data is destroyed in the normal course of business, absent a litigation hold or anticipation of litigation), but there's still no duty to preserve until there's reasonable expectation of a lawsuit (in contrast to SOX).
The biggest changes I see for law firms is the need to get to know the IT framework of our clients, and the need to discuss the issues surrounding ESI earlier in the litigation cycle. I think the article slightly misinterprets the rules...it's not an issue of having to retain Emails/IMs, it's an issue of 1) having to produce IMs if you retained them, or 2) having a legally defensible reason for not retaining them if you could have and had reason to believe you should have.
The introduction into the rules of a standard that takes into account whether data is 'reasonably accessible' is also going to become important. I think it will reduce the scope of e-discovery in smaller cases, because it's simply not reasonable to mirror and process a client's Exchange server when the potential exposure of the case is low.
One of the suggestions in the article that I highly agree with is, if possible, encouraging clients to construct a "Data Map" or what it calls, "Inventory of their IT system". It will not only help with collection strategy at the beginning of a case, but it will show due diligence in the event that something is missed. And, I imagine keeping legacy systems on the corporate radar might also be a way to ensure they are decommissioned sooner rather than later, as the cost of exploring their contents is not something anyone wants to have to endure.
I have an AV480, and it took me about a minute to figure out that all the DRM that it has is Macrovision detection.
So, if you want to record a DVD to the player and transfer it to your PC or playback on the big screen you need either 1) a DVD player without Macrovision (or Macrovision disabled...thank you Sampo) or 2) a TV with video-out ports (you just record from the TV video-out instead of straight from the DVD player).
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Try contacting Adam at adamrodriguez@newegg.com.
He helped me out when my Archos PVR showed up with a dead hard drive. He was very responsive and comped my return shipping as well as next day air for a replacement.
I've had an AV480 for about six months, and it's changed my life. Imagine all the great things that Tivo does for you, and then imagine that you can take your Tivo anywhere. My commute has disappeared thanks to being able to watch the previous night's Adult Swim. I'm not stuck watching crap movies on planes, and I don't have to make any excuses about why I didn't make productive use of my time (the main reason I didn't get a laptop...working on the way to work isn't my idea of a good time).
As a photo vault, I haven't given it much of a workout. It certainly does everything it claims to do, but it's best for those who have cameras that use CF type I, as I think worrying about an adapter would be too much of a hassle.
Sigh...drawing causation or correlation from 5 data points is just sad. Kerry supporters are grasping at straws.
There's been 17 elections since this 'pattern' supposedly emereged. At most, that means 9 times an incumbent was running. At most, that means 5 times the incumber lost when the Redskins did....sure helps to demystify curses with logic, but most people don't bother.
I work for one an Intellectual Property firm (IANAL), so I wanted to share some insight into how things like this come about.
Most IP firms have 'Investigators' on staff...think of them like P.I.s, but with a legal background, who prefer using Google to walking anywhere. Their job is to sniff out when people are using any of the IP of their clients in a manner that would tarnish the client's image or take one cent out of the client's pocket.
These people sit at their desks all day searching for "Nintendo" + "Sex", and "Metroid" + "XXX"...I'd bet their search patterns are quite similar to that of an average/. troll.
When they get a hit, they send a C&D to the ISP, Host or Content creator. I'd say 99% of the time, the site is gone or changed within a couple of days...such is the threat of big-time litigation.
I bought one last week, and it arrived this morning. Sadly, the one thing I was dreading (after reading pretty much everything there is to read about the AV series) came true and it had shipped with a defunct hard disk. After fully charging the battery I would power on the player only to get 1 second of hard disk activity followed by an auto-shutdown. I got an RMA and shipped it back. Here's to hoping the second time's the charm.
I've had other Archos products, and the only real problem is getting one that works. Once you get one that isn't D.O.A. they are amazing. I have a JukeBox Recorder 20GB that's running Rockbox (actually looking to sell, if anyone is interested) that hasn't given me a single problem over that past year.
Oh, and when was the last time a laptop fit in your shirt pocket? Soon, I will be the uber-geek...every Simpsons episode at my disposal, whenever/wherever.
I can't believe the hypocrisy here. If a Republican official tried to do this, it would be the end of privacy...every possible reference to 1984 would be made. But, since it's all done under the watchful eye of his majesty King Daley II, it's "I suppose there are positives".
The last thing Chicago needs is another pet project for King Richard to pour tax payer dollars into...we're still pulling our pants up after Millienum Park.
If you've seen it, there's no way you can disagree.
You've got all the coked-out Star Wars stars, including Luke with original nose, plus Bea Arthur and Chewbacca's son Lumpy. There's an extended sequence of what can only be called wookie porn, and large sections where the wookies talk amongst themselves with no subtitle or translation provided.
The word liberal took a 180-degree spin in definition in this country less than 100 years ago, so the majority of your response is beside the point.
Yes, I hold classical liberal ideals, like the fact that you should be able to believe whatever the hell you want. But, if you want to actually learn something, try reading Hayek's Road to Serfdom, and you'll see how no one in American pop-culture has used the word liberal to refer to the types of values found in the Declaration of Independence in at least the last 50 years. (Somewhat beside the point, the 50th anniversary edition of Hayek's masterpiece has an excellent forward by Nobel Laureate in Economics Milton Friedman...and my copy is signed by same, as his office used to be a few steps from my desk...but you've already concluded I'm one of those 'Right-wing wackos' whose every word is a lie.)
In case you don't want to make a trip to your library, I'll enlighten you on the concept of a race to the bottom, since your final thought betrays a lack of understanding of the concept. When need translates to cliam, the neediest person is for that reason alone entitled to the most. The result is a fight to prove need. People waste their energy trying to show that they are the worst off, because the only thing you get for trying to succeed is having your work product taken and given to someone with less.
American liberal economic policy is built on taking from those who have shown a propensity for success and giving to those who have shown a propensity for failure. As every other experiment with Socialism has shown, placing such bets is true folly.
Well, that's going to be it for me on this attempt to reform a lost soul. And, here's the reason you won't believe. The case I've been working on non-stop for weeks finally settled, so I'm taking a well deserved vacation.
Liberalism is not what this country was founded on. Capitalism is the heart of the U.S. Liberalism is just socialism in drag, economic policies that even fewer and crankier (heh) economists have believed in, and which have proven to be one of mankind's most foolhardy social experiments.
Don't try to spin your liberal rag of a paper's statisticless chart to me. I spent four years working for the institution that has produced and had on faculty more Nobel Prize winners in Economics than any other on the planet. In that time I learned that nearly all the great Economic minds come to one conclusion: The economic policies espoused by the American Liberal only produce a race to the bottom. And when need is accepted as the basis for economic claim, only the very foolish and the very noble bother to strive.
By the way...greed is good. It's what this country was founded and built on. If you need to campaign against something, start with unsubstantiated moralizing, please.
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Would you prefer if I rephrased to say 'deadlier for Americans'? You can argue the semantics, but the point stands. More Americans died from gunshots on the streets around Obama's home than in the streets sounding the former palace of Saddam Hussein.
I want the Senator to tell us whether he believes that peoples of Chicago should be prevented from owning handguns to protect themselves in their homes. Because, the police aren't able to do so, and we can't all have a security detail stationed at either end of our block.
Senator Obama, you voiced limited approval for the Supreme Court's Heller decision, overturning the handgun ban (as it related to self defense in the home) in the District of Columbia. You stated, "As President, I will uphold the constitutional rights of law-abiding gun-owners, hunters, and sportsmen. I know that what works in Chicago may not work in Cheyenne."
Given that the streets of Chicago were deadlier this summer than the streets of Baghdad, is the handgun ban 'working' in Chicago? And, is it Constitutional?
I won't speak to why or whether you should do it, but here are a few options for how.
Doculex has an app called MPTiffIt that will do single to multi or multi to single page tiff conversion. You'd need to convert the PDFs to single page tiff via Save As (or perhaps a Batch Process), then recombine them with MPTiffIt.
Or, you could use a Tiff printer driver along with a batch printing software.
Personally, I'd use L.A.W. (Legal Access Ware, created by Image Capture Engineering and now owned by Lexis Nexis), which is a full production scanning, OCR and e-doc conversion suite. You can import any type of doc that can be printed and output single or multi-page tiffs of PDFs with a variety of database/unitization load files. Similar products by IPro and Doculex exist. Any litigation support vendor should have one of these tools, and would likely charge a relatively nominal fee (per GB) to perform the conversion for you.
Yes, anyone can claim their a forensics expert. That's why it's up to the courts to determine whether a certain person is qualified to testify as an expert witness. And, that's why it's up to that person to document and justify the steps they took in obtaining and analyzing the data in question. Certain professional certifications (CCE, ISFCE) exist for forensic computer examiners. Adding the PI requirement is unnecessary, nanny-state BS. I work for a law firm, I could be considered an expert in legal technology and I have my CCE. I shouldn't have to go jump through hoops to get a PI license to do my job which I am fully qualified to do. At the same time, most PIs are not in the least bit qualified to do what I do.
-R
"A full format then goes and zeros all the sectors."
I don't believe that's true. I believe a full format simply marks all the sectors as unallocated space, not writes 0s. There's a big difference. I've recovered tons of data from a drive that I just formatted (not quickformat) using FTK. If it had been overwritten, that shouldn't have been possible.
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Depends what you mean by "reformatted".
Usually:
Deleting only updates the FAT. The data is all still there.
Formatting only deletes the FAT. The data is all still there.
What you're referring to with "reading all the previous layers" is quasi-theoretical ways of getting at data that has been completely overwritten.
Unless your deleting/formatting process actually overwrites the data, it is all still there.
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What matters how many times? As you say, there's a big difference between formatting and wiping.
I don't believe there's any conclusive evidence that data can be recovered from a drive that has been written entirely to 0s or 1s once. In other words, the DoD/NSA standard is over-kill.
I'm less (but still pretty) certain that repeated Windows formats will not make data any less accessible. The only way to make sure data can't be recovered from unallocated space or carved out of file slack is to overwrite those sectors, which a Windows format does not do.
-R
I never said otherwise; you replied to the wrong post.
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There's some pretty good FUD coming from the developers here, as well..
They make it seem like a huge problem that EnCase isn't entirely secure against potential attacks from the target machine. Well...the only time I'd use a software acquisition method is when a hardware acquisition is strictly out of the equation (i.e. live & critical servers that cannot under any circumstances be shut down). How likely are the servers for an airline's ticketing system to be booby-trapped?
They're creating problems and foisting them on the software when the exisitng software is far less likely to ever be used in such situations.
-R
It doesn't matter how many times, it only matters which methods are used. If you're just using a Windows format (or worse, quick format), you can run it 100 times and the data will still be accessible.
That said, the DoD standard for "wiping" a drive is also excessive in what it requires to declare the media clean. (All 0s, then all 1s, then 010101..., then all 0s again...blah blah blah)
My somewhat expert opinion is that a program that writes the drive to all 0s or all 1s is all you need.
-R
2gb/min isn't that fast.
Standalone devices like the Logicube Talon copy twice as fast. They also hash the drives and store audit trails to a CF card.
I can see the potential benefit to creating 3 mirrored drives at once, but it is extremely limited.
-R
You assume that the company "reasonably anticipated litigation" because a low-level associate received an e-mail from someone with an axe to grind that obliquely hinted at the possibility of hiring an attorney? I think that supposition would be laughed out of most courts.
-R
IANAL, but I am a Litigation Technology Admin for a major IP firm:
As far as retention/compliance goes, this isn't SOX for everyone who might ever be sued...I think having retention policies (and following them) becomes more important (ex. amended rule 37(f) creates an explicit safe harbor in the event that data is destroyed in the normal course of business, absent a litigation hold or anticipation of litigation), but there's still no duty to preserve until there's reasonable expectation of a lawsuit (in contrast to SOX).
The biggest changes I see for law firms is the need to get to know the IT framework of our clients, and the need to discuss the issues surrounding ESI earlier in the litigation cycle. I think the article slightly misinterprets the rules...it's not an issue of having to retain Emails/IMs, it's an issue of 1) having to produce IMs if you retained them, or 2) having a legally defensible reason for not retaining them if you could have and had reason to believe you should have.
The introduction into the rules of a standard that takes into account whether data is 'reasonably accessible' is also going to become important. I think it will reduce the scope of e-discovery in smaller cases, because it's simply not reasonable to mirror and process a client's Exchange server when the potential exposure of the case is low.
One of the suggestions in the article that I highly agree with is, if possible, encouraging clients to construct a "Data Map" or what it calls, "Inventory of their IT system". It will not only help with collection strategy at the beginning of a case, but it will show due diligence in the event that something is missed. And, I imagine keeping legacy systems on the corporate radar might also be a way to ensure they are decommissioned sooner rather than later, as the cost of exploring their contents is not something anyone wants to have to endure.
-R
Mother Nature started the battle for survival, now I'm supposed to feel bad because she's LOSING?!
-R
I have an AV480, and it took me about a minute to figure out that all the DRM that it has is Macrovision detection.
So, if you want to record a DVD to the player and transfer it to your PC or playback on the big screen you need either 1) a DVD player without Macrovision (or Macrovision disabled...thank you Sampo) or 2) a TV with video-out ports (you just record from the TV video-out instead of straight from the DVD player).
-R
Try contacting Adam at adamrodriguez@newegg.com.
He helped me out when my Archos PVR showed up with a dead hard drive. He was very responsive and comped my return shipping as well as next day air for a replacement.
-R
I've had an AV480 for about six months, and it's changed my life. Imagine all the great things that Tivo does for you, and then imagine that you can take your Tivo anywhere. My commute has disappeared thanks to being able to watch the previous night's Adult Swim. I'm not stuck watching crap movies on planes, and I don't have to make any excuses about why I didn't make productive use of my time (the main reason I didn't get a laptop...working on the way to work isn't my idea of a good time).
As a photo vault, I haven't given it much of a workout. It certainly does everything it claims to do, but it's best for those who have cameras that use CF type I, as I think worrying about an adapter would be too much of a hassle.
-R
Sigh...drawing causation or correlation from 5 data points is just sad. Kerry supporters are grasping at straws.
...sure helps to demystify curses with logic, but most people don't bother.
There's been 17 elections since this 'pattern' supposedly emereged. At most, that means 9 times an incumbent was running. At most, that means 5 times the incumber lost when the Redskins did.
-R
I work for one an Intellectual Property firm (IANAL), so I wanted to share some insight into how things like this come about.
/. troll.
Most IP firms have 'Investigators' on staff...think of them like P.I.s, but with a legal background, who prefer using Google to walking anywhere. Their job is to sniff out when people are using any of the IP of their clients in a manner that would tarnish the client's image or take one cent out of the client's pocket.
These people sit at their desks all day searching for "Nintendo" + "Sex", and "Metroid" + "XXX"...I'd bet their search patterns are quite similar to that of an average
When they get a hit, they send a C&D to the ISP, Host or Content creator. I'd say 99% of the time, the site is gone or changed within a couple of days...such is the threat of big-time litigation.
-R
I bought one last week, and it arrived this morning. Sadly, the one thing I was dreading (after reading pretty much everything there is to read about the AV series) came true and it had shipped with a defunct hard disk. After fully charging the battery I would power on the player only to get 1 second of hard disk activity followed by an auto-shutdown. I got an RMA and shipped it back. Here's to hoping the second time's the charm.
I've had other Archos products, and the only real problem is getting one that works. Once you get one that isn't D.O.A. they are amazing. I have a JukeBox Recorder 20GB that's running Rockbox (actually looking to sell, if anyone is interested) that hasn't given me a single problem over that past year.
Oh, and when was the last time a laptop fit in your shirt pocket? Soon, I will be the uber-geek...every Simpsons episode at my disposal, whenever/wherever.
-R
I can't believe the hypocrisy here. If a Republican official tried to do this, it would be the end of privacy...every possible reference to 1984 would be made. But, since it's all done under the watchful eye of his majesty King Daley II, it's "I suppose there are positives".
The last thing Chicago needs is another pet project for King Richard to pour tax payer dollars into...we're still pulling our pants up after Millienum Park.
-R
The Star Wars Holiday Special.
If you've seen it, there's no way you can disagree.
You've got all the coked-out Star Wars stars, including Luke with original nose, plus Bea Arthur and Chewbacca's son Lumpy. There's an extended sequence of what can only be called wookie porn, and large sections where the wookies talk amongst themselves with no subtitle or translation provided.
-R
The word liberal took a 180-degree spin in definition in this country less than 100 years ago, so the majority of your response is beside the point.
Yes, I hold classical liberal ideals, like the fact that you should be able to believe whatever the hell you want. But, if you want to actually learn something, try reading Hayek's Road to Serfdom, and you'll see how no one in American pop-culture has used the word liberal to refer to the types of values found in the Declaration of Independence in at least the last 50 years. (Somewhat beside the point, the 50th anniversary edition of Hayek's masterpiece has an excellent forward by Nobel Laureate in Economics Milton Friedman...and my copy is signed by same, as his office used to be a few steps from my desk...but you've already concluded I'm one of those 'Right-wing wackos' whose every word is a lie.)
In case you don't want to make a trip to your library, I'll enlighten you on the concept of a race to the bottom, since your final thought betrays a lack of understanding of the concept. When need translates to cliam, the neediest person is for that reason alone entitled to the most. The result is a fight to prove need. People waste their energy trying to show that they are the worst off, because the only thing you get for trying to succeed is having your work product taken and given to someone with less.
American liberal economic policy is built on taking from those who have shown a propensity for success and giving to those who have shown a propensity for failure. As every other experiment with Socialism has shown, placing such bets is true folly.
Well, that's going to be it for me on this attempt to reform a lost soul. And, here's the reason you won't believe. The case I've been working on non-stop for weeks finally settled, so I'm taking a well deserved vacation.
-R
Liberalism is not what this country was founded on. Capitalism is the heart of the U.S. Liberalism is just socialism in drag, economic policies that even fewer and crankier (heh) economists have believed in, and which have proven to be one of mankind's most foolhardy social experiments.
Don't try to spin your liberal rag of a paper's statisticless chart to me. I spent four years working for the institution that has produced and had on faculty more Nobel Prize winners in Economics than any other on the planet. In that time I learned that nearly all the great Economic minds come to one conclusion: The economic policies espoused by the American Liberal only produce a race to the bottom. And when need is accepted as the basis for economic claim, only the very foolish and the very noble bother to strive.
-R
By the way...greed is good. It's what this country was founded and built on. If you need to campaign against something, start with unsubstantiated moralizing, please.
-R