Dear Reader,
My name is Dominic Barker and I am a recent computer forensics graduate. I have just finished a 6 week placement with Staffordshire police and have written a prototype application that works with C4P and is capable of boosting CP categorisation efficiency by up to 50-60%.
This time saving directly corresponds to a reduction in costs, and reduction in time taken to get a case to the CPS. I believe that my application could benefit most forces from a time, monetary and examiner welfare perspective.
I am seeking interest from any high tech crime units in order to determine the viability of the project as a whole, as further development is required to make the product fully functional.
If you would like to know more about this or would like to put your name forward as an interested party, please PM me with your name, force (if applicable) and contact email and I shall contact you directly.
DarkNeon
Dominic,
I don't know if you're aware but Trevor seems to be actively encouraging more input from people on his new C4P version C4All (via plugins etc).
If you have something new and nifty, you might want to get in contact with him and could potentially get it included in the main package maybe (or as a plugin).
I won't waste your time personally asking for more info, as i'm not really a programmer. But i think all of us using C4P currently would be interested in something that saves us half the time. (I say with C4P ticking in front of me with currently over a million pictures and rising) 😉
On a side note something that could remove the need to categorise embedded thumbnails if they match the larger parent jpg would be handy, and also remove these from the counts (perhaps as an option).
Rich
On a side note something that could remove the need to categorise embedded thumbnails if they match the larger parent jpg would be handy, and also remove these from the counts (perhaps as an option).
Rich
I work for a company called BlueBear (
ImageMark will match image and video files even if
- different formats; jpeg vs. tiff vs.png vs. bmp…
- different resolutions; full res vs. thumbnails vs. compressed
- rotations
- cropping
- stretching
- watermarking
- damaged or recovered
ImageMark is also configured so as to guarantee ZERO false positive matches if there is any doubt the file is categorized as UNKNOWN and must be manually reviewed.
LACE also detects, extracts and matches any faces found in the case files.
It runs as a client-server so that many investigators can be working on their own cases at their own desks at the same time. LACE is compatible with any forensic package that can create an E01 or DD image file and it also comes with Lace Imager that can carve image and video files from logical, physical, and E01/DD. It can also accept the C4Pindex.xml file as an input for starting new cases.
Typical case processing, including face extraction and matching, is about 3 hours per 100,000 images when run on a typical Quad core 64 bit Windows machine.
Cheers,
-Jeff
A few things here.
A program called LACE having to do with CP seems rather not well thought out.
Secondly, why are we back to another LE against something. You know in the private sector, we are also against CP and an application which on a job which turns that up helps more people than LE.
I wouldn't dream of writing any software and say Defense only, no LE.
Why do people keep doing it. This is a worldwide problem affecting anyone who takes in a machine.
There is a growing movement of examiners who will not support anything a company does where it is restricted to LE UNLESS it is something like a wiretap or bug.
@ forensicakb
I would say that unless you are in LE, you have little need for this program. In the private sector - should you come across CP, you need to call your local LEA, not try and categorize…
I know what to do if you come into contact with it.
Why would LE need it and non LE not need it?
If someone hires you and wants to know if it is on their computer, why not have the best possible chances to locate it.
LE wont take in every computer where someone thinks they may have seen something.
As I said before NO software should be LE Only, but if you are LE welcome to the real world when you get out of LE and try to cultivate those relationships and can't use those LE Only software titles.
Of course there are still organizations you can join which think that people shouldn't be allowed to have a defense so no worries.
Fortunately all the LE I know who will go in the private sector, have no ideas of trying to do anything but good CF work and agree that there shouldn't be LE Only items.
A few things here.
A program called LACE having to do with CP seems rather not well thought out.
Secondly, why are we back to another LE against something. You know in the private sector, we are also against CP and an application which on a job which turns that up helps more people than LE.
I wouldn't dream of writing any software and say Defense only, no LE.
Why do people keep doing it. This is a worldwide problem affecting anyone who takes in a machine.There is a growing movement of examiners who will not support anything a company does where it is restricted to LE UNLESS it is something like a wiretap or bug.
The software really is applicible only to LE - designed specifically to help analyse confiscated computers and prepare for court.
that said; the software is not restricted to LE only (LACE is just a name, eh?) )
I would not say that this applications use is limited to LE as an entity, since I used to work for a private sector company that LE outsourced their criminal work to, so 50% of the cases we worked on were CP.
So the requirement for such an application is needed in both the private sector and LE.
I would not say that this applications use is limited to LE as an entity, since I used to work for a private sector company that LE outsourced their criminal work to, so 50% of the cases we worked on were CP.
So the requirement for such an application is needed in both the private sector and LE.
You won't find that happen in .ca
I would not say that this applications use is limited to LE as an entity, since I used to work for a private sector company that LE outsourced their criminal work to, so 50% of the cases we worked on were CP.
So the requirement for such an application is needed in both the private sector and LE.
If I may clarify; the software is applicible to the LE task of preparing for court.
It can certainly be used by civilian resources that assist with that task.