Episode 9 – Sink Ore Swim

This episode Simon and Lee discuss Operation Ore, touch on Helix 2.0, and they wonder why the iPhone screenshot thing has taken so long to come to everyone’s attention.

Here are some of the links promised from the show:

http://www.obu-investigators.com/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/17/ore_bates_arrest/

http://www.inquisition21.com/

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I know you’ll cheer at this…

Not sure when the next episode will be as my voice has vanished for a few days <cue cheering>.  My kids got sick so, naturally, I got it too.  If we can find anything interesting enough to talk about we’ll put an episode up in the next couple of days.  Don’t forget to sign up for our forum here.  I redid it this last weekend so you may need to sign up again (sorry).

Repair work – Edit

I’ve finally found out what went wrong with transfering the podcast over.  A redirect on the page told iTunes to point to an invalid feed.  In order to fix this I’ve have to resubmit the podcast to iTunes and ask that the old link be removed.  How irritating.  But I’ve learned lessons from this that will help to avoid such complications in the future.

If all this stupidity hasn’t put you off listening altogether then you can re-subscribe through iTunes here.

I am also told that the new podcast link should appear on iTunes within the next 24 hours so you will be able to search for it like before.

Here’s an iTunes related question…

Why can’t I just log in to iTunes and manually change the feed rather than screwing around trying to get the feed to tell iTunes?  Surely that should be an easy feature to implement rather than going through and destrying my original podcast feed.

***UPDATE***

Also, Luby has pointed out that the RSS feeds have also taken a hit.  I didn’t even think about that.  Sorry everyone.  The new feed is http://4cast.whitfields.org/?feed=rss2 (for rss version 2).  You can also find this on the left of this page under the heading ‘RSS Feeds’.

iTunes Woes

I honestly don’t know what is going on with iTunes.  It worked yesterday and now it has decided not to work and is claiming my feed is invalid when nothing has changed.  All I can do is apologise.  The episodes are still there and I hope that everything will be sorted out in the next couple of days.

In the mean time I’m going to continue pulling my hair out trying to figure out what the problem is.

Episode 8 – Chrome

Mark McKinnon was so kind as to do an interview for us today.  Mark is the writer/author (what the correct terminology there?) of the software Drive Prophet.  He talks to us about his software and what he hopes it will add to forensic investigations.  He was a great person to have on the show, excited and passionate about his work.

Mark can be found either at Red Wolf Forensics or his blog.

iTunes Issues

So, now that I’ve changed everything I’ve noticed that iTunes points to the wrong podcast feed still.  I’ve submitted the changes to iTunes but I don’t know when these changes will filter through.  In the mean while its best to listen on here or download the mp3.

***UPDATE***

The issue with iTunes has now been resolved, ready for the new episode.

Small change

You may or may not have noticed but the Forensic 4cast website has changed address ever so slightly.  I have done this so that I can add new features to the site that I couldn’t readily do with the old address.

Also, look at for a new episode later/tomorrow with guest Mark McKinnon, author of drive prophet.  We’ll be talking about Google Chrome and how to extract information for examinations.

Downtime

You may have noticed that we experienced a little downtime today.  The reason for this is because I’d like to do some things to the website that require a change to the web address, things such as a forum.  Sorry if this caused any inconvenience.

I have also created new email accounts, in future if you want to get in touch you can either leave comments on the site or email us at:  lee@forensic4cast.com or simon@forensic4cast.com.

Episode 7 – Pants

Hooray! (I hear you cry).  Yes you are quite correct to cheer my friend as the latest episode is now available.

This week Simon and Lee discuss the Private Investigator law (again?), the RIAA, Blackhat, and Lloyds TSB password policies.

I know you’ll be riveted throughout the episode.

(I’ve fixed the player now, apparently there was a bug in the site.)

Still Here

Contrary to popular demand opinion neither Simon or I are dead.  We tried recording something last week but Skype was being EXTREMELY unreliable.  We’ve since joined up with voxalot and set up SIP accounts so the process should be a lot smoother now.

I’m glad to tell you that we’ll be doing a new episode tomorrow evening, that should be available to everyone by Wednesday morning.