Customer Reviews

Wireless Crime and Forensic Investigation

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This book was an excellent edition to my forensic library and knowledge. I respect the author for tackling such a broad topic as wireless and feel the overall scope view was helpful. I have done a lot of cellular forensics and this was great to see some of the practices I have been taught and do put into print. I would recommend this book to those looking to get started in this area and learn what is possible.

I am just now getting into forensics or thinking of it and found this book helpful. It was nice to know that forensics was not tied to just old school technology and new things like wireless really had an impact. I really enjoyed the futures chapter it made me think from entering the field what I could expect and how I should change my focuses. Excellent read, very well written and a friendly text... It was a little expensive at first sight! But honestly worth it in the end.

This is not a book; it lists technical terms with a short description as a chapter. If this book was $9.00, it would be overpriced but at $63.96 it is the worst book purchase I have ever returned to Amazon. Actually, I have purchased countless books from Amazon; this is the first book I have ever returned!

This is what I emailed to Amazon:

This ebook (better described as a pamphlet) is not a book, but a small document containing, mainly short "Wikipedia like" definitions of wireless terms. It looks like the author's copied the definitions from a list of technical terms and added an index and bibliography. The reviews of this document are misleading at best or blatant lies at worse. I would like a refund immediately and would like to remove this document or allow prospective buyers to sample one of the other chapters. The viewable chapter is the only actual writing in this document and this covers an anecdotal story and is not technical in any way. So, to reiterate, I would like a refund immediately!

I will add to those new to computers or forensics, take a look at the Google book review (you can scan more of the book). Buy a book on wireless from the O'Reilly website, they have decent books for newbies and technical reviews. To the professional, the book is less information than you can acquire from a Wikipedia search on any of the subjects listed in the book. Sorry, to be so harsh, but I can't believe the reviews I've seen of this document, only one was credible; when he said it was "too basic, too broad" as his description of the book. If the writer were trying to emulate "Encyclopedia of Telecommunications" (600 pages of dense text) by Academic Press or something akin to it, he missed it.

The writing and information are ok, but the book doesn't seem to have a defined audience in mind. If (like me) you're interested and entering the computer forensics field with almost no wireless knowledge, the book lacks the kind of details necessary to make it a useful reference (or learning) manual. It does provide a kind of "baby step" towards understanding wireless technology, but after finishing the book the step seemed way too small for the price. The book does not have specific forensics information at all. I will say that it is well written and easily understood. It *might* be useful for a lead investigator trying to understand the kinds of information forensics can provide in a wireless environment.

This book seems written more as an "executive summary" to convince people with little or no knowledge that vulnerabilities exist...but again without providing sufficient specifics for a DIY fix.

I think the problem is that the book tries to cover too many areas (PDA's, cell phones, wireless LANs) in too short a format. And not to sound too cheap, I have to say again it is significantly overpriced for the information within.