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A New Hope…
Dave Aitel has graciously allowed us to run his commentaries before – see Hackers May Help Choose The Next US President and Aitel On Cyberwar. Dave is the founder and Chief [Security|technology|executive][1] Officer of Immunity, Inc, and runs the Daily Dave mailing list, where this article was originally published. It is re-published here with his kind permission. So […]
Big Ears, Little Ears: One article, three layers of blown secrecy, and how Edward Snowden proves my point
June 18, 2013 by Nick Selby
Today’s guest post is from Eric Olson, author of the Digital Water blog and a previous contributor to PLI. Well, I haven’t had much time to write here for quite a while, but the Edward Snowden affair – and more specifically this piece in the Guardian – were such a terrific display of the Digital […]
To Whom the 4th Amendment Doesn’t Apply
June 9, 2013 by Nick Selby
Guest blogger Chris Swan contributed this from the UK. Chris is Chief Technology Officer of CohesiveFT, where he focuses on product development and product delivery. After a decade as a Combat Systems Officer in the Royal Navy, Chris moved to the financial services industry where over the last 12 years he was an engineer, architect, […]
Boston Bombing Investigation: Intel Failure? No. Bad Expectation-Setting? Oh, yeah.
April 24, 2013 by Nick Selby
This is a long post. As either Blaise Pascal, Mark Twain, Voltaire or my Uncle Sid said, I didn’t have time to make a shorter post. It ran today in CSO Magazine and will run in other outlets this week (though this version here has some footnotes). In a hurry? Here’s a summary: My conclusion is […]
Criminal Hack versus FOIA request: The Showdown
September 10, 2011 by Nick Selby
It’s been a whirlwind week, and that’s pretty much all I have to say about that. The commercial data loss prevention firm IdentityFinder set its product to search through the 3GB dump of data that criminal hackers stole from Texas law enforcement agencies last week. IF published its findings on Wednesday, which were quoted in several media outlets. The IF […]
OSINT, Search Tools & Search Tip Roundup
July 19, 2011 by Nick Selby
Over the past two weeks – in fact since March – we’ve been talking a lot about search, specifically how law enforcement and analysts can use open sources to enhance their understanding of a given issue or target. This article is a roundup, and some new stuff to help cops and analysts search for things. […]
More Search-fu for Intelligence and Law Enforcement from Eric Olson
July 18, 2011 by Nick Selby
I read a piece on Police Led Intelligence this morning talking about more effective use of online search engines for police officers (great post!). Nick’s right – many in the Law Enforcement and Intelligence communities can do even more than they are by learning more about how search engines work, but there’s a second part to […]
No, you probably don’t need a data warehouse – unless your initials are “NYPD”
July 11, 2011 by Nick Selby
A journalist working on a piece about some high-end technology [from a vendor whose name I can’t mention, but whose initials are IBM] being touted as saving the day at a large agency [I can’t reveal the agency, but its initials are NYPD] asked some questions about crime mapping, Compstat and crime analysis and I […]
To Predict and Serve: Predictive Intelligence Analysis, Part I
July 5, 2011 by Nick Selby
By Sgt Christopher Fulcher In law enforcement, as in major military missions, the greatest weapon against constantly evolving threats is the intelligence that we gather and then use to drive strategic decisions. Even with some of the best intelligence collection in the world, the process is largely a reactive one. The goal of our intelligence […]
II: Analyst Nabs Robber; Viral Video & Illegal Recordings
May 16, 2011 by Nick Selby
Dave and I are still running around like one-legged men in butt-kicking contests, but here are a couple of thoughts for Monday morning. First, let’s all hail Carynn Terrell, the crime analyst who nabbed the infamous “Granny Bandit” last week. According to all the different news outlets which basically quoted the same AP story, Fontana, […]
To Hear What You Need, Stop Listening To Everything
May 4, 2011 by Nick Selby
Twenty years ago, the problem with intelligence analysis was that you had to work really hard for every nugget of data and information you got to analyze, and in lieu of hard data, make inferences from things like socks in the dryer and tingles up your spine. Today there is such an embarrassment of data […]
Intel On The Cheap: FOCA, EXIF and the Dreaded Metadata
May 2, 2011 by Nick Selby
One wonderful way to get intelligence about the genesis or even the source of a document you’ve got your hands on is to have a look at the file’s metadata. In one of our first PLI Podcasts, Eric Olson from Cyveillance discussed the value of metadata – data about data or information about information – […]
Police-Led Intelligence 
December 24, 2013 by Nick Selby
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