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

The Australian government has announced it will press on with its controversial plan to implement mandatory ISP-level internet filtering, after declaring the pilot trial a success.

Obviously there’s a lot of  outrage at the government’s decision to plough ahead with its plans.

Some limits, like child pornography are obvious, but moving to a mandatory ISP filtering regime which includes politically controversial sites like pro-euthanasia sites, the Government will be stifling debate about these topics by restricting access to the sides of the argument they disagree with.

Back in May when the ACMA blacklist leaked to Wikileaks, it was made clear that only 32% of blocked sites were related to child porn. The other 68% included legitimate sites, YouTube videos and political sites.

Related articles:-

• Aust govt to press on with net filtering law
• Australia pushes ahead with controversial Internet filter
• Some Obligatory Reading On The Internet Filter Issue
• Untangling the Net – The Scope of Content Caught by Mandatory Internet Filtering
• How To Protest Against Internet Censorship Laws
• Telstra, Optus And Primus All Announce Support For Conroy’s Filter
• Internet filtering – did the Government just blink?