I give about 50-70 educational presentations each year, so I do a fair number of sound checks. “Testing. one, two, three. Testing, testing.” Scintillating stuff, and hopefully not the highlight of the show. But “testing, testing” may indeed be the most important point I make, because “testing, testing” should be the mantra of […]
De-NISTing: De-FECTive
If you’re on this turf, chances are you already know that de-NISTing is a technique used in e-discovery and computer forensics to reduce the number of files requiring review by excluding standard components of the computer’s operating system and off-the-shelf software applications like Word, Excel and other parts of Microsoft Office. Everyone has this digital […]
A Load (File) Off my Mind
I got a call from a lawyer I don’t know on Sunday evening. He reported that he’d received production of ESI from a financial institution and spent the weekend going through it. He’d found TIFF images of the pages of electronic documents, but couldn’t search them. He also found a […]