Si Biles - @[email protected]

Digital Forensics | Consultant, Podcaster & Author.

[Si Biles - @[email protected] @si_biles]

A brief break from my break ...
This is really important for #digitalforensics #dfir in the #UK please take a look ...

https://t.co/7GzAuIgSVL

[Si Biles - @[email protected] @si_biles]

Happy New Year Everyone ! I'll be taking a break from X for the foreseeable - not deleting the account, but simply stepping away from it & the app for now. Wishing you all the best !

[Chris Sanders 🔎 🧠 @chrissanders88]

With every analyst-supporting tool, there's a concept of TTE, or "Time to Excel." That's how long it takes for an analyst to dump the data to CSV and analyze it in Excel rather than the tool they started in.

[Brick Cop©️ @Brick_Cop]

Quite a few queries from yesterday’s post about how you can help a Police Officer, if they’re being assaulted? 👀

Ok so first off I don’t think it’s a daft question at all. 🤷🏼‍♂️

When you join the Police and go to training school, you learn a *lot* of legislation. 📚

Some of the most important pieces are around use of force. 👊🏻

So let’s start at the top and I’m not going to quote legislation because you won’t remember it, I’ll try and break it down so it makes sense and is applicable in the real world:

🧍‍♀️👮🏽‍♂️- Common Law, is based on case law, where the amount of force used to defend yourself or someone else has been found by Judges to be reasonable. Essentially if you see a Police Officer trying to keep hold of a shop lifter and the shop lifter punched the Police Officer, you intervened and helped the Police Officer that would no doubt be deemed to be reasonable. If however you intervened, helped the Police Officer and then continuously assaulted the shop lifter who was no longer assaulting the Police Officer or you, that would most likely be unreasonable. 🤷🏼‍♂️

🏃- Section 3 of the Criminal Law Act 1967 - You’re walking home and from behind you hear “Stop him, he’s got my purse!” - A man runs passed you holding a purse and you give chase. You’re faster than the thief and you managed to not just catch up, but rugby tackle him to the floor and hold him down until the Police arrive. Essentially you quite rightly believe an offence has taken place and you’ve identified the suspect and can catch and detain him using reasonable and necessary force, so you’re on to a winner. Once again, if you were to assault the suspect once they were detained and no longer resisting, that would be deemed as unreasonable. But, holding on to them so that they cannot escape would still be reasonable. An important distinction. ✅

These are the main two powers you can use to help a Cop or someone else, but there are others. 👀

For example, Article 2 of the Human Rights Act, is the right to life. So if you do something to save someone’s life, whilst most likely you would be using Common Law, it would also qualify as upholding this article of the HRA. 🤓

Police Officers use these powers alongside many others every day and are well versed in the nuances, but as a member of the public, if you see someone in trouble and decide to help, it will most likely fall into one of those categories. 🫡 #ThinBlueLine 🚨

[Si Biles - @[email protected] @si_biles]

@mccartydan @Tunde_OD Nicely done ! I agree - it's a great & honest shot - the reframe is best.

[Si Biles - @[email protected] @si_biles]

Now this is why I read Twitter, enough of those other a**hats. Real questions, real answers. And not a bit of hate for having a different view. Thanks Dan !

[mRr3b00t @UK_Daniel_Card]

the most important questions found here!

How many knives do you use for making toast?

[Jay Rayner @jayrayner1]

If you haven't registered to vote you've got one more day in which to do so.

[Si Biles - @[email protected] @si_biles]

Do you remember when you joined X? X just reminded me that I've been in this dystopian hellscape for 15 years ... #MyXAnniversary

[Si Biles - @[email protected] @si_biles]

@Plusnet given you never talk to me, I'm wondering if we should break up ?

[Si Biles - @[email protected] @si_biles]

Hey @plusnet - any chance of a technical explanation of what happened yesterday as opposed to the canned response ? ( I see the same text to multiple customers, just changing the name ... ) Some clarity as to why we were left in the dark would be nice.

[Plusnet @Plusnet]

@RobertABinning Hi Robert!

Earlier this morning our network was down which impacted multiple broadband services. This has now been resolved so you'll just need to reboot your router if your unable to connect. Drop us a DM if you need anything else. -Curtis, Plusnet Sheff

[Si Biles - @[email protected] @si_biles]

Hey @Plusnet are you ignoring me, or don't you know what happened ?

[Si Biles - @[email protected] @si_biles]

@Plusnet ?

[Si Biles - @[email protected] @si_biles]

@Identatron @Plusnet Seems like it, doesn't it ?

[Si Biles - @[email protected] @si_biles]

@SPCoulson @bt_uk @EE @Plusnet Same service & script-kiddy probing level as always here. No noticeable issues or apparent DDoS ...

[Placing the Suspect Behind the Keyboard @PSBK4n6]

Might want to wait a day before ordering :)
I'll have a much lower price set to last a few days.

[Si Biles - @[email protected] @si_biles]

@DanielGDresner I can't say I'm surprised ... I used to appear in Google searches before her ...

[Si Biles - @[email protected] @si_biles]

@Identatron I can't wait either !!

[Si Biles - @[email protected] @si_biles]

@Identatron This scenario is epic - and the voice "talent" is amazing !

[Si Biles - @[email protected] @si_biles]

@Identatron @SamRaincock I've got a rather old Garmin one, but to be honest, I don't find the whole smart watch thing that useful beyond initial geek joy. And my mechanical skeleton watch fulfills that more :-P

[Si Biles - @[email protected] @si_biles]

@Identatron @SamRaincock