[Novalug] SMART -- status of Andy Rosen's mulled talk on SMART?

[Paul D. Bain]

greg pryzby wrote:
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> I will respond since I get mails occassionally asking when YOU will give
> your follow up talk ;)
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> 1) When can you speak to us again?
> 2) We are interested in SMART.
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> Sept is booked.
> December is booked (Keith?)
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> Oct/Nov are OPEN
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> We are in Reston now.
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> Feel free to hit me off list w/ month choice and something I can put online.
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> Stevens R. Miller wrote:
>> Hey All,
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>> About a year ago, I gave a short talk to NOVALUG about using Linux for
>> computer forensics.  I had intended to include a section on SMART (a superb
>> commercially available forensics product), but a combination of
>> time-constraints and video problems forced me to cut that out.
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>> Now, my friend Andy Rosen (the creator and owner of SMART) has said he'd be
>> willing to come up from The Deep South and give us a presentation (assuming,
>> of course, that schedules cooperate).  If NOVALUG is interested, let me know
>> and tell me who Andy needs to coordinate with, and we'll do it.
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>> Andy is a great guy and has a lot of war stories, so I'm sure he'd be better
>> at telling us about his program than I ever would.

Could someone please let us know whether we can expect Andy Rosen soon 
to talk about SMART?

	Other open source software (OSS) forensics tools that I would like to 
see discussed would include these: The Sleuth Kit (TSK), Autopsy, OCFA 
(by the Dutch police), BackTrack Live CD, file carvers (e.g., Foremost, 
PhotoRec, and Scalpel), and _maybe_ Helix. I understand that Helix may 
not be completely OSS. If so, then I probably am not interested in 
hearing a talk about it.

	I would also like to know how these tools compare to the proprietary 
forensics tools, especially EnCase and FTK, which are the most popular 
of these proprietary tools.

Sincerely,
Paul Bain