Category Archives: Digital Investigations

[Slide] 2018-10-29 Cybertraps for Educators 2.0

Cybertraps for Educators 2.0 [Lecture]

2018-10-29 Cybertraps for Educators 2.0 from Frederick Lane A presentation delivered to the educators, staff, and administrators of the Haines School District, Haines, AK, on October 29, 2018. If you are interested in scheduling a presentation or professional development program for your organization on this topic, please contact me for information regarding my rates and…

Cover Slide for "Information Security in a Knowledge-Based Society" [2018-05-16]

Information Security in a Knowledge-Based Society [Lecture]

2018-05-16 Information Security in a Knowledge-Based Society from Frederick Lane A presentation delivered on May 16, 2018, at the United States Consulate in Guangzhou, China. If you are interested in scheduling a presentation or professional development program for your organization on this topic, please contact me for information regarding my rates and availability.

British Teacher Canned Over Mile-High Sex Allegations

A disciplinary panel for Britain’s National College of Teaching Leadership (NCTL) decided last week to indefinitely ban Eleanor Wilson, a 28-year-old physics teacher at an unnamed school in Bristol, from teaching in English classrooms. The panel’s decision came after hearing testimony from a student, “Pupil A,” that on a July 2015 flight home from a…

[Podcast] The Communications Decency Act, Backpage, and Sex Trafficking: Should Congress Take Action?

[Update: 2017-07-12] As expected, last night’s discussion was lively. While there were considerable areas of agreement (beginning with the moral imperative to combat child sex trafficking), there were also some provocative debates about the role of major tech companies, the boundaries of speech, and the best options for moving forward. Kudos to host Cheri Roberts…

Rachel Maddow Offers Fascinating Primer on Document Forensics

Over the last several months, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow has devoted large amounts of airtime to these burning questions: 1) Did the Russian government attempt to interfere in the United States presidential election in 2016 and if so, 2) did the campaign of Donald Trump actively collude with the Russians in that meddling? I don’t…

Digital Technology and Child Pornography [Lecture]

2017-05-31 Digital Technology and Child Pornography from Frederick Lane A presentation delivered at the National Seminar for Public Defenders in New Orleans, LA on 31 May 2017. If you are interested in discussing a presentation or professional development program for your organization on this topic, please contact me for information regarding my rates and availability.

Anatomy of a Digital Investigation: FBI Rapidly IDs Sender of High School Threats

It is a problem that has afflicted numerous schools around the country: threats of violence sent from anonymous email accounts, messenger apps, and transient phone numbers. In the wake of multiple serious school attacks, administrators cannot afford to take such threats lightly, notwithstanding the fact that the majority of the threats are little more than…

Cybertraps for Educators [Lecture]

2017-03-09 Cybertraps for Educators from Frederick Lane A presentation delivered at the Putnam/Northern Westchester BOCES in Yorktown Heights, NY on March 9, 2017. This event was organized by Anonymous Alerts, which produces a school safety app to facilitate the anonymous reporting of various types of incidents. [Disclosure: I am a member of the Board of…

Cybertraps for Administrators & School Boards [Lecture]

2017-02-19 Cybertraps for Administrators and School Boards from Frederick Lane A presentation delivered at the Alaska Society for Technology in Education 2017 Annual Conference on February 19, 2017. If you are interested in discussing a presentation or professional development program for your organization on this topic, please contact me for information regarding my rates and…

Digital Technology and Child Pornography [Lecture]

2017-01-20 Digital Technology and Child Pornography from Frederick Lane A CLE presentation delivered to the office of the Federal Public Defenders in Knoxville, TN on January 20, 2017. If you are interested in discussing a presentation or professional development program for your organization on this topic, please contact me for information regarding my rates and…