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Ride the Lightning: Electronic Evidence

An electronic evidence and computer forensics blog by noted author, lecturer and consultant Sharon Nelson.

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MARINE ONE DATA ON COMPUTER WITH FILE SHARING - RIPLEY WOULDN'T BELIEVE IT

Posted on March 02, 2009

HOW HIGH CAN WE MAKE THE WALLS? COMPUTER FORENSICS IN MICHIGAN

Posted on February 27, 2009

HOW CAN YOU BEAT FREE? E-DISCOVERY SUMMIT

Posted on February 25, 2009
It is Christmas in February. I just received a very nice invitation from the folks at BrightTALK for all Ride The Lightning readers. Yes, ok, I know other bloggers probably got the same offer. Still very nice. BrightTALK is hosting...

LOVING LOSEY: RALPH'S NEW EDD BOOK

Posted on February 23, 2009
No, I haven't read the book yet, but I love it in advance because everything Ralph writes is colorful, engaging, thought-provoking and backed by expertise. The name of Ralph's new book is Introduction to E-Discovery: New Cases, Idea and Techniques...

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WANT TO BE AN AUTHOR FOR THE ABA? FIND OUT AT TECHSHOW

Posted on February 20, 2009
A bit off-topic today, but the American Bar Association's Law Practice Management Section publishes a lot of books and (coming soon) digital monographs. If you are an aspiring author, or an established one looking for a new outlet, this may...

AN INVITATION TO EDD AT TECHSHOW

Posted on February 18, 2009
Come one, come all. And save some money by signing up by February 28th at www.techshow.com. John and I traditionally lead an attendee dinner at TECHSHOW, so please sign up to come with us - or at least come up...

EDD IN ABA LPM: CAN YOU TRANSLATE THAT?

Posted on February 16, 2009
Well, a few of you can. But for those who cannot, the subject is Electronic Data Discovery in the American Bar Association's Law Practice Management Section. I am composing this in Boston at the ABA's Midyear meeting. By the time...

CUTTING EDD COSTS IN THE U.K.

Posted on February 12, 2009
I am always happy to hear from Ian Henderson, a noted computer forensics technologist in the U.K. We had the pleasure of interviewing Ian for an ABA article last year and emerged as ???friends across the pond.??? Ian wrote me...

LEGALTECH 2009: LESS BOOZE, MORE BUSINESS

Posted on February 11, 2009
I didn't make it to LegalTech this year, but I've been in touch with a number of friends who attended and their impressions have been pretty much the same. I also received an insightful Technolawyer post written by Warwick Sharp,...

DOOM AND GLOOM IN EDD

Posted on February 10, 2009
Everyone in computer forensics and EDD shook their heads ruefully last week when it become public that Onsite3 had filed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy and was to be acquiried by Integreon. There was a lot of buzz at LegalTech about...

INACCESSIBLE ESI: WHAT ARE THE COURTS SAYING?

Posted on February 05, 2009
My friend and colleague David Isom writes terrific poetry. So I have to say that reading his recent article in the Federal Courts Law Review was not nearly as much fun as reading his poetry! That aside, it was very...

MICHIGAN SAYS YOU NEED A SECURITY CERTIFICATION TO BE A PI

Posted on February 04, 2009
This recent computer forensics listserve posting says it all. Has Michigan lost its collective mind? This sort of protectionism is just plain nuts. If you are in Michigan, write to Adam. Take the recent ABA resolution (reprinted below) that says...

NEW MURDER TRIAL ORDERED WHEN JURY SEES "REDACTED" VIDEOTAPE

Posted on February 03, 2009
Virginia has had its share of problems with courtroom videotapes. First, as I reported a few days ago, we had a videotaped reenactment that was, to put it mildly, somewhat less than accurate. And now we have a case where...

FORMER FANNIE IT CONTRACTOR INDICTED FOR PLANTING MALWARE

Posted on January 30, 2009
John and I do a lot of lecturing on IT security. Like harpies, we repeat over and over "as soon as someone is terminated, cut their access." Seems as though someone at Fannie Mae forgot to do just that. Rajendrasinh...

INACCURATE VIDEO REENACTMENT SHOWN IN MURDER CASE

Posted on January 29, 2009
Ryan Frederick may well be guilty of the murder of a police officer during a marijuana raid on his home. But I was appalled to read that a video reenactment of the night of the murder, shown in court, was...

CAROLINA IN THE MORNING: BUBBA AND BIG WALLY

Posted on January 27, 2009
Regretfully, we are no longer in South Carolina. Our travels took us to Myrtle Beach and our beloved Charleston, where we heartily recommend Planters Inn as a charming, affordable, centrally-located hotel and its Peninsula Restaurant for a wonderful meal...

ELECTRONIC DISCOVERY, GRC AND RIM: HUGE KNOWLEDGE GAPS

Posted on January 22, 2009
Kahn Consulting, in collaboration with ARMA and other organizations, has released a survey entitled GRC, E-discovery and RIM. One of the findings from the survey: "Less than one quarter of organizations surveyed believe that their employees understand their [governance, risk...

MICHIGAN ADOPTS E-DISCOVERY RULES

Posted on January 19, 2009
Back to the salt mines after a 10 day Panama Canal cruise. There was a norovirus outbreak aboard- happily, we stayed healthy. Though perhaps we wouldn't have left so much money in the ship's casino if we'd been quarantined in...

GOOGLE STREET VIEW SOLVES KIDNAPPING

Posted on January 14, 2009
Law enforcement in Massachusetts did some nifty work recently finding a girl who had allegedly been kidnapped by her grandmother. Electronic evidence can be found anywhere and these two colleagues put Google Street View to a new use. They obtained...

DEFENDING ELECTRONIC MAIL AS EVIDENCE: NEW BOOK

Posted on January 12, 2009
A new book will be released by CastleQuest on January 15th, entitled Defending Electronic Mail As Evidence: The Critical E-Discovery Questions. John and I had the opportunity to have lunch with author Jeffrey Ritter, who was kind enough to share...

MD5 COLLISIONS: REAL PROBLEM OR RED HERRING?

Posted on January 09, 2009
Among the computer forensics crowd, or those who follow the field, the subject of MD5 collisions always brings folks to a fever pitch, with some insisting that these collisions are a real problem and others saying, basically, "pish posh." John...

FOLLOWING ELECTRONIC EVIDENCE ISSUES ON TWITTER

Posted on January 07, 2009
I promise to leave this subject soon, but there was so much response to my last blog posting, it seems as though many people would like to get to know Twitter. It is an excellent way to get EDD and...

SHARON CATCHES THE TWITTER BUG

Posted on January 05, 2009
And yes, it burned half a day. Poof. Hours had vanished. I feel as though I am standing on a magic carpet, willing it to fly. I am following good pal Rob Robinson to this uncharted land. Watching Rob use...

A TRIANGULATED VIEW OF EDD

Posted on January 02, 2009
Always a pleasure to highlight the work of a friend. Rob Robinson has come up with a listing of the EDD top 20, using the results of three key electronic discovery landscape documents, the Sixth Annual Socha-Gelbmann Electronic Discovery Survey...

MARYLAND SPIES ON "FRINGE PEOPLE"

Posted on December 31, 2008
What, you might reasonably ask, are "fringe people?" A wooly-headed Thomas Hutchins, a former Maryland State Police Superintendant, somehow defined this as people who wish to disrupt the government, a chilling distinction not to be found in the United State...

THE "WHATEVER" CASE: GUTMAN V. KLEIN

Posted on December 29, 2008
"Whatever. I told him whatever. I did whatever I felt right to do, whatever.? These were the evasive and unintentionally comic words of a witness in Gutman v. Klein (Oct. 15, 2008), surely one of the most egregious spoliation cases...

BRIGHT YELLOW SUITCASE SCREAMS "SEARCH ME!"

Posted on December 24, 2008
As the holidays approach, I had a number of very serious electronic evidence postings that were possibilities. Much too serious for the season, I finally decided. My friend Ross Kodner was kind enough to send me some light-hearted moments in...

MORE STATE RULES ADDRESSING ELECTRONIC EVIDENCE

Posted on December 22, 2008
Hard to keep up these days. Just when we have some sense of what all the new federal rules mean in practice, we are all scrambling to make sure we know what is going on in the states. Arkansas, Iowa,...

MORE STATE RULES ADDRESSING ELECTRONIC EVIDENCE

LOSEY LETS LOOSE ON KROLL

Posted on December 19, 2008
You have to love a guy who self-effacingly acknowledges that he is a smart-aleck. Ralph Losey's e-Discovery Team blog is always a good read, but I especially enjoyed his December 15th post reviewing a recent listing by Kroll OnTrack of...

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