New book, "Open Source Software for Digital Forensics"

The publisher Springer-Verlag has just released a new book

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I am unable to find any reviews of this book. Could someone point me to some reviews? I would greatly appreciate it.

If it was just released, then there probably hasn't been a chance to review the book, or post any reviews.

Wow and it's expensive. $118 for 117 pages? Does it need a dongle to read it as well? )

Tom

some sample pages available here
http//www.springer.com/computer/security+and+cryptology/book/978-1-4419-5802-0

One final note the book's price seems steep. The book costs $118 notwithstanding that it is but 117 pages long. That is about a dollar per page. Is that not a high price per page?

I find 133 pages, not that that changes things very much. Table of contents is at google books as well as springerlink.com, and there are short summaries of each chapter at Springer.

It's a hardcover, and that explains part of the price. The publisher (Springer) may explain the rest. Though I would not be surprised if this is planned as a library book rather than something expected to be bought by individuals. If that's right, the price has probably been set accordingly.

This book is a collection of revised and extended chapters based on papers pre-
sented at the Open Source Software for Computer and Network Forensics
(OSSCoNF) workshop, held in Milan in September 2008 at the World Computing
Congress, co-located with the 4th Open Source Software Conference, and some new
work purposely commissioned for the book. It is aimed at scholars and free soft-
ware authors, researchers, and digital forensics practitioners; it can serve both as a
research archival resource, and an introductory text. To the best of our knowledge,
it is the first research book totally oriented to the use of Free Libre Open Source
Software (FLOSS) in digital forensics.

It's a collection of papers from a conference, rather than a real "book" … Hence the price. You may well be able to source 90% of the individual papers elsewhere …

For example if you look here you can find references to most of them … I've not chased them down further though.

Incidentally, the irony of having to pay quite so much for "Free Libre Open Source" isn't entirely lost on me … -P

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It's a collection of papers from a conference, rather than a real "book" … Hence the price. You may well be able to source 90% of the individual papers elsewhere …

For example if you look here you can find references to most of them … I've not chased them down further though.

Incidentally, the irony of having to pay quite so much for "Free Libre Open Source" isn't entirely lost on me … -P

Thanks for digging up the link. I am going to hunt down the papers over the next week and report back.

RB

Beetle, I'm sure we'd all appreciate hearing about your results. I'm curious of the topic, but defenitely not brave enough to hang my reputation on open-source only.

I have the book, actually got the book to write a review. As it was previously mentioned, the book is a collection of papers revolving mostly around FLOS.
If you are looking for a book that would help you conducting Computer Forensics using Oprn Source Tools, you should look elsewhere.

Regards,
ecophobia.

This book probably is more suitable for your purposes. )