New Zealand Future Policing Policy Blueprint Extract

A lot of people think e-crime is just cybercrime and computer hacking, but
it’s not. The majority of e-crimes involve all sorts of crime where
computers or electronic devices are being used as:

• a tool in the commission of an offence;
• a storage device in the commission of an offence;
• the target of an offence.

What does the Electronic Crime Lab do?

The ECL exists to recover electronic evidence. As you know, society’s
changing. We’re storing our information differently, we’re communicating
differently and, as a result, during investigations we’re coming across not
just physical evidence but electronic evidence, as well – hard drives,
computers, laptops, personal organisers, cellphones, digital cameras, you
name it – and it needs a forensic expert to bring the evidence out.

Not just that, it needs to be in a form investigators can understand and that a jury
can understand when it goes to court.

We also provide forensic assistance with the investigation, sometimes even
sitting in on interviews and asking questions.

We have three divisions within the ECL:

• Signal processing: this is how it all started in the 1980s. It’s basically
recovering audio and video evidence;
• Data processing: this is now the biggest part of our operation.
Everything that contains data needing to be recovered is analysed by
the team; and
• Research and development: this develops tools and technology that we
use in our investigations.

Any crime can have an electronic component – drugs, homicides, national
security, sexual, burglary, fraud, anything – and e-crime can relate to any
offence. Often it’s traditional crimes coming out in different forms, but
containing electronic evidence that needs to be recovered.

Exponential increase In 2004, the Lab’s 11 analysts handled 1,150 cases, involving16,300
exhibits.

A quarter of the crimes were drug-related, 20 per cent were
sexual offences, followed by fraud (18 per cent), burglary and theft (13 per
cent) and homicide (eight per cent).

We’ve seen an exponential increase in the number of cases submitted to
the police over the years (below) – if you put the uptake of the Internet
alongside, it’s almost the same curve.

Recovering electronic evidence

Policing challenges

There are a range of challenges we face with e-crime, including:
• anonymity, global reach, and speed;
• multiple victims;
• volatility of evidence;
• widespread availability of encryption;
• capability gap among generalist staff;
• legislative framework largely based on physical world.

There’s understandably a capability gap among generalist staff. We get
100s of calls from people around the country asking for help. It’s unrealistic
– and expensive – to train everyone to have a level of understanding that
can actually deal with these sorts of investigations, so the lab serves as a
point for these complaints, or at least works as an interface.

Electronic evidence has been around since 1984 – but advancing technologies and a
proliferation of illegal activities are providing ever changing challenges for the New Zealand
Police’s Electronic Crime Laboratory (ECL), according to Maarten Kleintjes.

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Legislative framework

The law is lagging behind when it comes the electronic age. I’ve been
working for years to revise:

• the searching of intangible spaces;
• remote searching;
• the existing search warrant regime;
• misconceptions and the Privacy Act (people seem obsessed about not
releasing information to the police!)

We want to be able to execute a search warrant in Cyberspace.

There are offenders who don’t have computers but store data somewhere in
Cyberspace.

If they can access it in New Zealand we should be able to
search for it legally.

Our search warrants are also for a particular address. If we go to a
defendant’s house and there’s no data there (it’s all stored somewhere
else), we have to go and get another search warrant. But by the time we
do, the person will have taken steps to erase the information.
Managing demand for services

We’re currently developing “zero skill” tools that will allow any
investigator, who can point and click a mouse and knows what they’re
“We’re currently developing “zero skill” tools that will allow any
investigator, who can point and click a mouse and knows what they’re looking for, to search a computer in a forensically sound way.”


looking for, to search a computer in a forensically sound way. This will let
investigators do the investigation and give the work to those who should
be doing it in the first place.

Reporting e-offending

I believe that large proportions of e-crimes, in terms of cybercrimes, are
not actually being reported to the police because people don’t know
where to go. We need a single point for reporting e-crime, developing e-
crime intelligence, co-ordinating transnational crime, and managing
internal and external relationships.

A couple of weeks ago we had three incidents occur in different parts of
the country that were reported to us. We had an overview and could see
what was happening – it came down to one ISP.

The next step is a hi-tech crime centre.
This would be a virtual operation bringing together people working from their own premises. I’d like to see this happening and I think we’re going to get there.

omaarten kleintjes is national manager of the new zealand police’s electronic
crime laboratory (ecl). he presented the plenary e-crime and law enforcement.
Spot the ATM difference? Can you tell which is the real ATM and which one’s been compromised?

And this is how it’s done:

Genuine ATM
Fit camera
Fit skimmer
Compromised ATM
Harvest data
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B
C
D
(Real = A and C; compromised = B and D.)
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Bi-Polar Brothers.

Bi-Polar Brothers.

Its going to be ok, I trust you and trust me I know, cause between the not ok’s you’ve hung on to what you needed to, you’ve made a pact to do just such and im going to be with you all the way.

So when the feeling that seems to lash out from the darkness, from the unsuspecting shadows of your day, with a knife or with a sense of strife, it’s me who’s going to take the cut and it’s me who will save your life.

You cant pretend its not happening when behind you awaits the thing that scares you the most, the thing that raises from within, filling you throughout, touching your lonely soul with shivers, with fear and threats of something you will never see, but just have to share.

It’s going to be the relationship you always needed, always had, between us we will know what comes next, cause stride after stride, mile after mile, we will walk together hand in hand, until your last breath and step.

Its not just you suffering, I suffer too, it’s hard to see you like you are, and you know that too, but its going to have to do, there is no other choice, today and tomorrow will never change until we face it side by side, together in each others wake, quietly alone as the ripples thin to a calm pool of emotions that subside from the intense storm.

It’s going to be ok, we don’t have to wait, nor race ahead of ourselves toward something unknown, you can reach for my hand, when ever you trip, when ever you fall or stall and I will pick you back up from what ever ground, what ever frown or break from where ever your going to go next.

I am going to be with you all the way, what more can I possibly say, and If you can’t find me beneath the waves, just hold out your hand, don’t hold your breath, breathe, we don’t have any choice because you and I are in this together, forever, so take a good look at me and forgive me for who I am and whom I have become.

The circles we seem to be walking in are not the same, this is not a game, this is our life and what we have become, we are, One.

All Rights Reserved - Written By Renton Braden Mathew Innes 24/07/2007

The Truth Hurts...

It, at this moment, the manic grin spreads across my face, as the tears fall down through an empty void I once called my name, but now my name is something that doesn’t belong to me, I knew it once and now I cant get rid of it, you can call me and I will turn to look, but as the look becomes a stare and as the gaunt left overs remain to remind me of the man who could and would care; cant anymore. Who makes me feel like these feelings make me do, who wants to call them theirs when they are mine, who wants to share a few and live them too, Do you? and while the mirror of my life cracked and shattered shows me who I am, was, or could be, who can hold onto that which cuts me so deep and who will rock me to sleep when the lights go dim and I cant seem to win. who.

Lost Love?

Can you hear me, can you even try, would you listen if you could, would you let me try

I never found it easy, I never knew why

Every time I spoke you looked at me like you heard, but tomorrow will only show, and too many tomorrows have come and then they seem to go, my words seem forgotten or don’t seem to show

Can you, just hear me, just let me know

So here I am with you in my mind and making time to be something I thought I was, to you and to me, just let me see that I am in yours and you are who you are, to be mine.

I don’t need you to be something your not, have you forgot?

So each whisper you spoke, when tomorrow it’s broke remember how I heard you, held you, kissed and missed you when you weren’t there and how much I cared when through the windows you stared, blankly past my reflection, my echo in the room, each sweep of the broom…

Can you just, hear me, once more through the empty door, through the gardens we walked and the each and every moment together alone, at work and at our home

Can you just be what you were and told me who, you are.

Would you just listen one more time, would you let me try, just so you know and me too, this is what you need not want to do. Can you?