Deduplicated Disk Image Evidence Acquisition and Forensically-Sound Reconstruction

The 17th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communication (TustCom), New York, United States of America, 1-3 August 2018The ever-growing backlog of digital evidence waiting for analysis has become a significant issue for law enforcement agencies throughout the world. This is due to an increase in the number of cases requiring digital forensic analysis coupled with the increasing volume of data to process per case. This has created a demand for a paradigm shift in the method that evidence is acquired, stored, and analyzed. The ultimate goal of the research presented in this paper is to revolutionize the current digital forensic process through the leveraging of centralized deduplicated acquisition and processing approach. Focusing on this first step in digital evidence processing, acquisition, a system is presented enabling deduplicated evidence acquisition with the capability of automated, forensically-sound complete disk image reconstruction. As the number of cases acquired by the proposed system increases, the more duplicate artifacts will be encountered, and the more efficient the processing of each new case will become. This results in a time saving for digital investigators, and provides a platform to enable non-expert evidence processing, alongside the benefits of reduced storage and bandwidth requirements

Engendering gramsci: Gender, the philosophy of praxis, and spaces of encounter in the climate caravan, Bangladesh

This paper examines the gendered politics of national and international networking amongst peasant farmers' movements in South Asia. In particular the paper provides an ethnographic account, based upon the author's critical engagement with the Bangladesh Krishok (farmer) Federation and the Bangladesh Kishani Sabha (Women Farmers' Association), of the Climate Change, Gender and Food Sovereignty Caravan that was organised in Bangladesh in 2011. The paper draws upon Antonio Gramsci's theory of the philosophy of praxis and feminist research on social reproduction, dispossession and materiality to interrogate the spaces of encounter and solidarity-building practices of the Caravan between different communities in the country and between different social movement actors. The paper examines how processes of political organisation and consciousness-raising within and between social movements are problematised by gendered power relations. The paper concludes with suggestions concerning how the philosophy of praxis in Bangladesh might be "engendered" to incorporate a politics of social reproduction