James G. Watson: Digital Forensic Professional
I’m an operational supervisor in a Digital Forensic lab with 5 years of experience in examining mobile devices and computer equipment, a Flash memory chip removal (“chip-off”) specialist, and have a drive to improve forensic practices and tools.
My Aims
I aim to automate or speed up existing processes to allow more time for actually investigating.
I look for evidence opportunities by identifying under-exploited areas and un-decoded data.
I aim to provide excellent service, no matter the investigation or the obstacles.
Recent Posts
- Never Do The Same Thing Twice: AutomateSurely seeing that the extraction is complete, then making the few clicks and ticks to get it decoded can be done by machine? Yes, they can. Automate what the big companies don’t.
- Snap Seconds: Missing Video…forensic practitioners could be given the wrong impression that media is missing from their extraction. You don’t need to record the phone screen just to get that video.
- At Your Service: Timelining Android Usage with System ServicesMy phone runs about 200 services at any given time, and I bet yours does too, yet I have not seen these services queried as part of a forensic investigation. Is this because there’s very little worthwhile data there? IsContinue reading “At Your Service: Timelining Android Usage with System Services”
- Perceptual Hashing: A Shallow-ish DiveCryptographic hashing is fundamental to Digital Forensics, we can all agree that – unique identifiers that can be used to locate exact duplicates of a file, without even needing to have the original file. No digital unit in a UKContinue reading “Perceptual Hashing: A Shallow-ish Dive”
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