Internet law (Dutch only)
Just a plain old linkdump to start the new year (happy new year of course 
! ). New year’s resolution: blog more 
!
A lot of readers will probably already know this site, but just for those few who don’t: Arnoud Engelfriet regularly blogs (in Dutch only) about law, more specifically internet/ICT law. And as a new year is a good time to look back, a link to his overview of what happened in this area in 2008.
Mac OS X forensics website and book
A lot of the forensic software, research and investigations are still about Windows software, reflecting the market share that this operating system has. However, it looks like Apple is definitely doing some good work to grab its piece of the market.
When you run into one of these machines, it might give you a bit of a forensic challenge, as you have to deal with both another operating system (which is luckily Unix/BSD based) and with new hardware. Take a look at the various guides at http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Mac/ to get a feeling about the number of screws you have to remove to get to a hard drive in a MacBook Pro for example…(luckily there are some other ways to create an image without removing the drive, for example using target disk mode).
Quality journalism…
Someone on the Digital Detective forum posted about an article in the Times, describing a supposed link between Muslim terrorists and child porn. Below is my reaction to his post, that I think would also fit here. Please have a read through the article before continuing.
TomTom forensics
The guys at GPSForensics.org are posting more and more info on their webpage regarding this very new and challenging field within IT forensics. Their latest is a very practical document on TomTom forensics.