EncroChat/Operation Venetic Now that I have finished my last EncroChat expert witness instruction I thought I'd provide a narrative about the decisions and dilemmas that characterised the UK's NCA Operation Venetic. shorturl.at/br8iR

EncroChat/Operation Venetic Now that I have finished my last EncroChat expert witness instruction I thought I'd provide a narrative about the decisions and dilemmas that characterised the UK's NCA Operation Venetic. shorturl.at/br8iR

EncroChat/Operation Venetic Now that I have finished my last EncroChat expert witness instruction I thought I'd provide a narrative about the decisions and dilemmas that characterised the UK's NCA Operation Venetic. At one level Venetic was an outstanding success for law enforcement.

Post Office and Fujitsu had deal 19 years ago to fix Horizon errors, paper shows

OMG it’s the 8.10 story on Today on Radio4!! WTAF!!!!

Online Safety Act repeal debate bingo: - Children - Terrorism - Tech giants - Small but high risk - Algorithms - VPNs - Safety by design - We all knew it wasn't perfect - Should go further - Freedom of expression absolutists - Critics who haven't read the Act

Really tired of saying this: policy should be based on evidence, not vibes. And especially not on vibes from pressure groups.

Most people have dynamic IP addresses; here in the UK ISPs and telcos will keep that data for only 12 months. ,not 5 years. Take a look at photo meta data EXIF for just one photo. This spec was written by someone who once read an article on digiforens but didn't understand it.

The folk the US authorities are really interested in will find it all too easy not to reveal embarrassing material. Finding that they have done so will be a major investigative challenge. Have they the resources?

How is this 5 year history going to work in practice? I am used to examining phones and PCs for legal proceedings. All the files will be very large, creating massive problems of delivery to the US authorities, as well as then reviewing them.

Imagine coming up with a proposal so stupid, so unworkable, so thoughtless, that it makes Robert Jenrick look sane by comparison. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In a defamation suit you must prove your loss. Trump won his election and both Senate and Congress. What is his loss?

But the election isn't going to be held today and not for over 3 years. I am fed up with these endless pointless "poll" stories.

Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins? He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions. So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?

Boris papers is an important story but your lead now should be Israel/ Qatar.

I have only once in 25 years been consulted by CCRC in my specialty of digital forensics.

I think more than anything else AI feels like a miracle to people with questionable literacy because it can read and write for you, and a lot of us who are highly literate underestimate how many of our society's leaders, esp in business, struggle with literacy.

Keir Starmer’s legacy could be electoral reform – or Farage as prime minister | Polly Toynbee

Boring!

Humanists see the universe as a natural phenomenon with no supernatural side, and look to science to answer questions about the natural world. Humanists believe this life is the only life we have, so they focus on living well in the here and now, guided by empathy and our shared humanity ❤️

4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC #OnlineSafetyAct www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The UK's Online Safety Act's push to protect kids online through content blocking and age checks sounds good—until you look deeper. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Thought y’all needed to know that Grok has pencilled in civil war in Britain for a week on Tuesday

It's something that I've felt for a while but feel more comfortable saying now given the last day's news cycle: Peter Kyle doesn't have the intellectual intelligence to regulate the tech sector, and doesn't have the emotional intelligence to rationally respond to people trying to tell him that

300,000 signatures and counting.

Really interesting thoughtful piece. Something similar could be written about the varieties of British Jew and hence opinions about Israel.

Important --> Politicians, lawyers and doctors express concern over use of expert witnesses in English courts More important --> The incorrect assumption in English law that computer evidence is reliable 🤯 […]

Now up at Computer Weekly www.computerweekly.com/news/3666258... My observations: Peter Sommer

I understand. The issue is acute with digital forensics - discovery of a single file is seldom enough for a prosecution. Instead analysts have to point to several files and their associated metadata. - fraud, conspiracy, hacking, CSAM distribution. Best tests are by defence expert not FSR checklist.

Good report but doesn't explore the confused relationship between forensic science and the Regulator's checklists and the role of the expert witness under CrimPR, especially important when what is required is reconstruction of complex evidence as opposed to finding mere traces.

Very sorry to hear this. I knew him from when he was at Time Out (when it ran news stories). When I was a publisher I commissioned from a book on a scandalous mis carriage but we could not get it past the libel lawyers. I followed his career ever since.

One of the areas you should look at is Home Office administrative capabilities in running the policies politicians espouse. As an example: the TOEIC English language tests for students. Also: ask for staff turnover stats for the related departments.

Presumption of reliability was raised in early pleadings in the first EncroChat/Venetic cases but not pursued once it became obvious - and agreed by prosecution experts - that the Encro evidence was, at best, incomplete so that the presumption was rebutted.

Great news. The IPT will hear the substantive arguments about the Apple anti-encryption order in public hearings. Now the government can decide what they prefer: fight the appeal and put a chilling effect on encryption in the UK, or back down, withdraw the TCN, and let this blow over...

There is even less support for experts instructed by the defence. I stopped doing this CSAM work several years ago.

The latest version of my submission to the Ministry of Justice's Call on the evidential presumption is at: rb.gy/ua1hrx

Computers record nearly all of our transactions and act as witnesses to many of our activities. The UK Ministry of Justice has an enquiry whether the presumption that digital evidence is reliable should be challenged. It concludes on April 15. My response is at rb.gy/ua1hrx.

Computers record nearly all of our transactions and act as witnesses to many of our activities. The UK Ministry of Justice has an enquiry whether the presumption that digital evidence is reliable should be challenged. It concludes on April 15. My response is at rb.gy/ua1hrx.

Computers record nearly all of our transactions and act as witnesses to many of our activities. The UK Ministry of Justice has an enquiry whether the presumption that digital evidence is reliable should be challenged. It concludes on April 15. My response is at rb.gy/ua1hrx.

Technical Capability Notices. Extensive historic and current detail from Cyberlegal's blog: www.cyberleagle.com/2017/05/back... @computerweekly.bsky.social My take: shorturl.at/7cG5n

“According to the report, the U.K. government is looking to amend the data protection law to remove any doubt about the legality of honoring CLOUD Act requests.”

I am puzzled why the Home Secretary and the Home Office think that the Technical Capability Notice (TCN) is the best way to tackle the problem of reading the encrypted traffic of people suspected of doing Bad Things.

Computer Evidence Reliability The UK Ministry of Justice is currently asking for comment on the current doctrine of computer evidence - that there is a rebuttable presumption of reliability. My submission is at rb.gy/ua1hrx.

Computer Evidence Reliability The UK Ministry of Justice is currently asking for comment on the current doctrine of computer evidence - that there is a rebuttable presumption of reliability. My submission is at rb.gy/ua1hrx.

Question for #OnlineSafetyAct nerds. This is one instance of a terminological issue (what is meant by references to 'illegal harm'?) that arises more than once in Ofcom's Illegal Harms documents. It's complicated, so please bear with me 1/8