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Banning Feds From DefCon Is Self Defeating. Here’s Why.
If you’re not familiar with DefCon, the hacker confab that has been meeting in Vegas for more than 20 years, you’re not paying attention to hacking. DefCon (and the accompanying conferences like BlackHat and BSides) makes Vegas the nerdiest place in the universe during July. You don’t want to use an ATM, connect to a […]
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 […]
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 […]
Federal Court: Location Tracking via Cell-Phone Pinging is Kosher
August 15, 2012 by Nick Selby
The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has ruled that police may track the signals eminating from wireless devices, such as cell phones, owned by a person. In United States v Skinner, the court found that a drug dealer whose position was being tracked by the DEA as he and his son […]
Cyber-Criminal OPSEC – a Three-Part Series. Part I: IP Addresses
June 11, 2012 by Nick Selby
This is Part I of a Three-Part Series on Cyber-criminal Operational Security. Part II is here. Part III is here. Recently, when speaking of a cyber case, I said that if your criminals have got an IQ of 101 or greater, and if they’re not pathologically lazy, they’re going to anonymize their traffic to the […]
Finding the Gold Nugget in Suspicious Activity Reports
August 3, 2011 by Nick Selby
It’s fitting that for our 100th post, Libby Stengel joins us with a contribution on how to better mine and leverage suspicious activity reports. A consultant on the Memex team at SAS, Libby is a former U.S. Army intelligence officer who served in Iraq, where she performed all levels of intelligence including debrief, interrogation, analysis. […]
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 […]
To Predict and Serve: Predictive Intelligence Analysis, Part II
July 6, 2011 by Nick Selby
In Part I of this two part article, Sgt Christopher Fulcher discussed the need for predictive intelligence analysis. In Part II, he gives some specific examples, tips and guidelines. If you would like to contribute non-commercial content in your area of expertise to Police Led Intelligence, please let us know. In 2006, the Memphis Police […]
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 […]
Reverse Number Lookups & Stolen Mac Tracking
June 3, 2011 by Nick Selby
Here’s some Friday randomness for you since I’m too busy to come up with a Metric of the Week. First up, I want to tell y’all about a cool little jammy that can be useful for cops and analysts on the move: BeenVerified’s NumberGuru, available for iPhone and Android mobile devices, is a free reverse-lookup […]
TSA Groping: In Texas, It’s Official Oppression
May 17, 2011 by Nick Selby
The headline in The Sun – Texas becomes first state to ban ‘intrusive’ TSA security pat downs – was premature, but the Texas house has passed House Bill 1937, which makes pat-downs by TSA officers at airport check-points a crime. The bill, sponsored by Representative David Simpson (R, District 7) seeks to expand the definition […]
Police-Led Intelligence 
July 11, 2013 by Nick Selby
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