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Finally catching up with my growing "save for offline" reading list. First a few books: And then, the online articles: "I’m a 37-Year-Old Mom & I Spent Seven Days Online as an 11-Year-Old Girl. Here’s…

My team at DarkOwl did a ton of work researching, discussing, and debating this piece, https://www.darkowl.com/blog/nation-state-actors-in-the-dark-web. My role was editor, debater, and shepard to find a path forward. There are two people who did the…

Interesting research into the centralization of Mastodon as an example of a decentralized social network. A few highlights: Let’s Encrypt has been chosen as CA for more than 85% of the instances, likely because this…

Great, yet depressing, summary of the current situation from the New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/28/us/child-sex-abuse.html. More can always be done to combat the problem. Most of my time is spent helping companies investigate thefts of property…

Looking forward to seeing everyone and speaking at the HTCIA International Conference in Chicago in a day. What is the HTCIA conference? The High Technology Crime Investigation Association’s (HTCIA), International Conference & Training Expo is…

Thanks for Carahsoft for hosting me on a webinar about the basics of darknet investigations. The archive is available at https://www.carahsoft.com/learn/event/17574. The content is focused on US Government challenges and ability to investigate the darknet.

A few friends started a discussion about fake profiles connecting to us on LinkedIn. I'll try to summarize the thoughts and discussions we've had around topic. I accept all connection requests. Don't treat "mutual connections"…

Yes, that's right, I have over 1,000 active email addresses. Here's why, how I manage them, and how my system has evolved over the past 17 years. In early 2002, my main email address was…

8chan Activates “Emergency Bunker” on Dark Web — DarkOwl - Darknet Big Data — Read on www.darkowl.com/blog/8chan-finds-new-home-on-dark-web

Out of interest in learning how machine learning works at the code level, I started building a firearm detector. There are plenty of libraries which detect a firearm, for instance, this one.  I wanted to…