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This post actually relates to something that took place before Christmas. I have briefly touched on this event* but I decided it needed some proper attention.

Just before the Christmas break* a lecturer at my uni approached myself and two other friends of mine to ask if we would be willing to participate in a bit of a challenge. The task at hand was to set up a rogue access point ready for a lecture on network security for second year students. At the time we accepted this challenge* ...

The second semester of my final year started today.

There structure is as before* some modules* some project* for about 12 weeks. This semester though* along with continuing project work and a module about commercialisation and business* there is more forensics* a whole 3 month module of it. The connection with AccessData that we experienced over the first and second year remains – we will be working with 3 versions of FTK* Registry Viewer* PRTK* Mobile Phone Examiner – Ultimate ...

With all the snow preventing me from travelling to uni* I have had a lot of spare time with which to work on my final year project. I have actually made good progress with it* reaching a point that I could consider as a beta release of the application.

Currently it does only have limited support for file reading and there are a few bugs and edges that need polishing* however the majority of functionality is there. Files and file names can be previewed in audio format* files can ...

Reading this topic made me think about qualifications.

Speaking from my perspective* the whole idea of a certificate being enough to prove that you know your stuff is* or should be* subject to the same skepticism that some degrees are. You need to trust the content of each course I think. Of course* the different courses - be them degrees* vendor-specific* independent etc.* vary hugely - I guess it comes down to word of mouth and trust. The cert' sets a basic level of trust between ...

Firstly I must apologise for the large gap in posting* I have been busy with a number of things lately.

Most of my spare time has been dedicated to working on my final year project. I am aiming to develop a file recovery application* with the added twist of text to speech transposition. So far most of the easy work has been done; I have put together a UI and conducted a few tests* such as using the system speech synthesiser in C#. I am now in the process of stitching together the ...