[Gllug] Phone scam?

[sean]

On 19/04/2011 14:20, Philip Hands wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 11:59:56 +0100, sean<S.Tohill at westminster.ac.uk>  wrote:
> ...
>> many police forces are moving away from having police officers doing
>> computer forensics work and are hiring civilian technical officers
>> instead, mostly with a job spec that includes computer related degree.
>> their abilities are a different discussion.
> The UKUUG spring conference included a talk on Digital Forensics by
> someone who gets hired by the police -- in questions afterwards he said
> that he rarely/never gets calls asking him to analyse GNU/Linux systems
> (despite being perfectly capable, and IIRC saying that he preferred
> using Free Software tools).
>
various things get sent out for analysis by the police, usually because 
it will be quicker and cheaper.


> He was unwilling to speculate whether this is because criminals don't
> use GNU/Linux, or whether the ones that do don't get caught.  ;-)
>
it is a useful exercise to think about the range of skills required to 
be a unconvicted computer criminal. and also to look at the lack of 
skills in the convicted ones. the fbi is reporting a rise in well 
trained computer criminals within criminal gangs. career opportunities :)

regards

sean


> Cheers, Phil.


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