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Adobe Acrobat 9 and Creative Suite 4 for Forensic and Law Enforcement Professionals

Carl — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 23:23:54 +0000

Found an interesting on-demand seminar Adobe Acrobat 9 and Adobe Creative Suite 4 for Government Law Enforcement and Forensic professionals by Colin Smith from Adobe. He presents some interesting applications of Adobe Acrobat and Photoshop CS4 and how they can be used in analysis and presentation of evidence, that include:-

Use of image evidence in court presentations, and the importance of non-destructive editing.
Production of contact sheets.
Viewing EXIF data and metadata from images (including camera serial numbers and GPC coordinates).
Non-destructive editing and processing of images and video using smart objects.
Analysis of images using individual color channels to provide more detail and determine authenticity.
Recovering visual evidence from shadows and noise.
Using Photoshop layers to composite multiple images with stack modes for noise reduction.
Measurement tools.
Facial comparison.
Adding security to documents, and protecting and redacting sensitive information.
Useful additional plug-ins:- PhotoZoom Pro, Focus Magic

NTIA Releases Reports on Prison Cellular Jamming Trial

Carl — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 09:34:40 +0000

The US National telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has released two reports from its recent on-site prison cellular jamming trials at the Cumberland, Md. federal correctional facility in February.

TR-10-466 Emission Measurments of a Cellular and PCS jammer at a Prison Facility – http://www.ntia.doc.gov/osmhome/contrabandcellphones/NTIAPrisoncelljammerreport_TR_10_466.pdf
10-468 Inital Assessment of the potential impact from a jamming transmitter on selected in-band and out-of-band receivers – http://www.ntia.doc.gov/osmhome/contrabandcellphones/NTIATechnicalMemorandum_10_468.pdf

New Online Wireless Courses

Carl — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:12:05 +0000

To supplement our existing range of courses for registered learners, we have added a new Online Wireless Courses page, linking to a selection publicly available and free online courses.

The two initial courses added are:

XC001 – Intro to Radio Waves – An introduction to radio waves and their characteristics.
XC002 – Intro to Cellular – An introduction to cellular technologies and protocols.

The courses are provided in Flash and PDF format. Each course is supplemented with a set of PDF lesson notes.

Additional courses will be made available on this list regularly.