David Kalat

I am a professional investigator, and a testifying expert in information science and electronic evidence.

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Did you get today's Wordle? As this month's history of cybersecurity explores, you're engaging in a tradition dating back to Claude Shannon's 'A Mathematical Theory of Communication'.
Nervous System: The Entropy of Wordle https://t.co/O36BmUSx1x via @Legaltech_news

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Nervous System: Presenting Our Next Witness, the iPhone https://t.co/T6MiUY6gft via @Legaltech_news

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The use of GPS systems to track location may seem ubiquitous today. But this was not the original plan, until one fateful airline disaster at the height of the Cold War. Nervous System: Knowing Your Place in the World https://t.co/NdbrusNrTg via @Legaltech_news

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Nervous System: The Computer Crime of the Century https://t.co/XezLrWVaq1 via @Legaltech_news
This month's history of cybersecurity explores how Raymond Dirks uncovered Equity Funding's fraud in 1973—and have a lengthy court battle with the SEC for his efforts.

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What if a 'Really Nasty Virus' isn't a virus at all? This month's look at the history of cybersecurity examines early virus hoaxes—and how they interacted with real threats. Nervous System: The Computer Virus That Wasn’t https://t.co/Vf7ev36wow via @Legaltech_news

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Time was, people living on the border often found themselves trapped in the wrong country overnight—until a clever use of biometrics saved the day. Read all about it in Nervous System: Rethinking Voice Recognition at the Canada Border. https://t.co/Yz1IHmi9T4 via @Legaltech_news

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Nervous System: Engineering the Next Generation of Computer Users with the Alto
This month's history of cybersecurity examines how the relationship between Man and Machine was reimagined, starting with Xerox's Alto https://t.co/O7aIiMgL4p via @Legaltech_news

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In 1972, a fraudster stole equipment from the telcos and sold it back to them, because he understood their computer system better than they did. Read all about it in Nervous System!
Nervous System: Dumpster Diving for Fraud and Profit https://t.co/VT7yDsyDp7 via @Legaltech_news

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Trying to pass legislation governing the prosecution of computer crimes was a rocky road before the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
Nervous System: Florida Man, Joe Biden, and the Federal Computer Crimes Act https://t.co/KKyP69YMsx via @Legaltech_news

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Not all collections are created equal. This month's history of cybersecurity explores how SafeBack and the forensic tools that followed it tackled collecting electronic evidence to maintain its reliability and validity.
Nervous System: SafeBack in the Day https://t.co/1OqTZwSRa1

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I'm honored to be one of the presenters at this year's ACFE Global Fraud Conference. Join me for "Cyber Sherlocks: How Technological Change Is Disrupting Digital Forensics," June 23, 2021 at 11:05 AM to 12:20 PM Central Time (CT). #FraudConf

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Nervous System: Audrey, the Dragon, and the History of Voice Recognition Technology https://t.co/KwT5oSjMJc via @Legaltech_news

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Nervous System: Oliver North and the Origin Story of Legal Technology https://t.co/QHdaTP5715

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Hacking into a federally secured system: actual child's play? This month's history of cybersecurity tells how a group of Milwaukee teenagers spurred congressional hearings to enact cybersecurity laws.
Nervous System: ‘The 414s’ https://t.co/IyxlMRzYsV via @Legaltech_news

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This month's history of cybersecurity looks back at how predictive dialing software revolutionized the call center industry—and left behind a legacy that continues to be litigated to this day.
Nervous System: Dialing For Dollars https://t.co/RjpUj3kIH9 via @Legaltech_news

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Data breaches affecting millions of Americans is no new phenomenon. This month's history of cybersecurity explores the time in 1984 when over 90 million Americans had their credit histories exposed.
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Nervous System: The Sleepy History of the Buffer Overflow Attack
This month's history of cybersecurity looks at the buffer overflow attack, which still remains a risk even more than 48 years after the problem was first diagnosed.
https://t.co/GA8PcrjsxO via @Legaltech_news

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Nervous System: The Inventor, the Barbershop Quartet, and the Origin of the Email Attachment
This month's visit to the history of cybersecurity explains how one man's fixation on "transmitting photos of grandkids" changed the face of communications.

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Nervous System: The Police Beat Algorithm
This month's lesson on the history of cybersecurity looks at the use of computer technology to predict crime and allocate police resources—and the lasting legacies that have resulted. https://t.co/jxcepajgky

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Technology and innovation were deployed to fight the H1N1 flu pandemic in 2009. Were any lessons learned?https://t.co/pKKudv6B1R