October 1st, 2007
Tools like the Firefox add-on “Ad block plus” and even mainstream security products like McAffe Security Suite are causing major headaches for popular Internet websites which rely on advertising as a sole source of revenue. Some say greedy webmasters who riddle their sites with 10, 20, and sometimes even more ads per page are the blame for the widespread backlash. The worst offenders make you view full page ads before proceeding or use pop-ups or pop-unders.
The popularly of websites who are taking the “moral high ground” like craiglist and wikipedia are also causing headaches because they provide a quality alternative to other popular websites which have large amounts of ads. Will this soon bankrupt the major players or will they reinvent themselves?
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September 22nd, 2007
You probably already know about I.P. addresses. They are the numbers of any Internet connected or any TCP/IP connected device. You probably recognize the format. For example 66.51.103.36 is the dedicated IP address for this website, computer-forensic-technician.com.
A friend recently received a phishing email with a strange address. It was a series of hexadecimal numbers. The friend said I knew it was a fraud because it wasn’t a real IP address. Well actually, it was a real IP address.
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August 10th, 2007
Programming Codes:
Full Data Programming Menu
##3282# (##DATA#)
(Requires Master Subsidy Lock Code available from Helio Support, I had no problem getting a code using the ruse that I was helping setup the phone for hearing impared tty use. but, my code only worked once. Ask them for the “6 Digit” code, they will understand that term.)
Debug Mode
##33284# (##DEBUG#)
Displays info like signal strength and channel #.
Data Connection Menu
##786## (##RTN#)
(Warning don’t select RESET!)
Standard Phone Programming
##43546#636# (##HELIO#MDN#)
TTY options for hearing impaired.
##889# (##TTY#)
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August 9th, 2007
Medical science and forensic science has been growing at a rapid pace. Just a few years ago DNA testing was in it’s infancy and the science of drug testing was also crude. There are now more methods of drug testing that have increased accuracy and the window of detection.
At the present time the four most common methods of drug testing are taking samples of urine, hair, oral fluids (saliva), and sweat (perspiration). Each method has it’s advantages and disadvantages.
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July 14th, 2007
D.A.R.E. Or Drug Abuse Resistance Education is an anti-drug educational program that is a cooperation between local police departments and school districts. Typically a uniformed officer from the local police agency visits junior high schools in the community and presents an educational program designed to curb teenage drug experimentation.
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May 24th, 2007
There have been many news specials citing the growing use of video cameras used for surveillance and crime prevention, and exposes of the federal program which tracked phone call usage habits to prevent terrorism. Most people however are unaware of the growing use of position tracking technology used to pinpoint criminals.
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February 19th, 2007
A reader writes:
okay this isn’t exactly about phones being tapped. My friend was at a party and bent over to pick up something. Her cell phone had fallen out of her purse and she saw it and reached to get it. Right then and there some kid grabbed it and ran off. They couldn’t find him and went back to the place 2 times looking all over. Her phone is like her life… she has probabley 100 numbers.. and now they are going to have all her friends numbers, e-mails, and screen names. She doesn’t know what to do and i’ve been searching the whole internet for someone with advice. I am aware that the last resort is to shut off the phone but she is just at the begining of a second 2 year contract, meaning that she would have to pay it off if it wasn’t found. There must be some way of tracking it but i am not exactly the smartest person in the world to think of how. Thankfully her battery is dead becuase it was dying when she lost it. They could buy a charger, i guess.
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December 17th, 2006
Throughout the history of organized crime, criminals have bought legitimate businesses to use as a front, and as a means to launder money. This is also true of notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar of the Medellin Cartel of Columbia.
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December 17th, 2006
According to Abadinsky (2004), The Continuing Criminal Enterprise statute “makes it a crime to commit of conspire to commit a continuing series of felony violations of the 1970 Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act when the violations are undertaken in concert with five or more persons.”.
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December 17th, 2006
Asian organized crime groups originate primarily from Japan, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Macau. The primary organized crime groups originating from Japan are the Yakuza, or Yamaguchi-gumi. The primary organized groups originating from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Macau are the Triad, and the Tongs. (Abadinsky, 2004)
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