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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…

I like electric city bikes that don't look like an obvious electric bike. Most of "the look" I want involves hiding the battery so it's not some huge lump on the frame. A few builders…

From https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/20-10-2019/bikes-are-the-new-cars/ It changed our lives. We were initially unsure how much we would use it; we use it all the time. In the four months we’ve owned it we’ve ridden it 1000km around town,…

Looking forward to my second OSMOSIS Institute conference. I'll be demystifying the darknets. Here's my session blurb. See you there! Making the theoretical, practical. Darknet technologies are often steeped in deep technical jargon and complex…

A few shots of three more warships arriving in the morning. Fireboat escort and all. 

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…

This is the raw photo from an iPhone XS taken with the stock camera. This is a raw photo from a OnePlus 6 taken with the default camera: Both picture were taken from the same…

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.