Dark Cyber Reveals a New Approach to eDiscovery and Operational Intelligence

The December 26, 2017, Dark Cyber video is now available at  http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/. This week’s program reveals the functionality of a Cambridge, UK, start up doing business as Blackdot.
 
In this week’s show Dark Cyber explains how a promising innovation adds an important weapon to police and intelligence digital weaponry. Relativity is a standard platform for eDiscovery. However, Relativity’s eDiscovery functions do not match precisely to the needs of operations, police, and intelligence professionals. For certain investigations and missions maps, social media analysis, and advanced analytics are required. Blackdot adds these capabilities to Relativity creating a mechanism for actionable information and legal documentation.

The video is available via the link on the Beyond Search blog (www.arnoldit.com) or directly at Vimeo at https://vimeo.com/248450035
 
An eDiscovery system like Relativity can find mentions of a person of interest in email, PDF files and standard office documents, but eDiscovery systems not designed to allow an operator to identify associates, their locations, and movements over time. Intercept and social media information are difficult to process with an eDiscovery system like Relativity.
 
Dark Cyber profiles Blackdot, a low profile next generation content processing system which operates as an augmenter of the Relativity eDiscovery tool. The result is that the functionality of eDiscovery is available in an operational information access system. Blackdot’s technology has applications in law enforcement, fraud detection, and operational intelligence.
 
Stephen E Arnold, author of the “Dark Web Notebook” said:
 
“Blackdot’s augmenting of Relativity is an important innovation for enforcement and operations personnel. Many systems can manage standard content. Some specialized systems can handle social media content like Facebook posts and Twitter messages. But Blackdot has made it possible to wed the power of eDiscovery with next-generation content processing tools for fraud detection, operations, and evidence analysis.”
 
The December 26, 2017, Dark Cyber program also presents information about a free Dark Web search service. Ichidan allows an investigator to identify potential gaps in the configuration of a Dark Web server. There are commercial tools available, but Ichidan is the first publicly accessible service to make analysis of Dark Web sites available without charge. No technical expertise is required to use the system.
 
The Dark Cyber program also reports that pastesites -- that is, anonymous content exchanges on the Surface Web -- continues to offer up-to-minute listings of Dark Web sites. With the demise of Grams, a Dark Web search engine which was shut down in mid-December 2017, pastesites provide direct links to Dark Web merchants brokering contraband, child pornography, and terror-related information. Dark Cyber reports that pastesites can be accessed from any Web browser.
 
Dark Cyber is a special series created by Stephen E Arnold’s Beyond Search research team. The free online and content processing blog is available at www.arnoldit.com/wordpress.
 
About Stephen E Arnold
 
Arnold is the author of CyberOSINT: Next Generation Information Access (www.xenky.com/cyberosint) and the Dark Web Notebook (wwww.xenky.com/darkwebnotebook). In 2018, he returns to the Telestrategies ISS faculty as a lecturer in law enforcement and intelligence systems and software.  Prior to setting up his Dark Cyber research team, he worked at Halliburton Nuclear, Booz, Allen & Hamilton, and provided strategic information services to organizations worldwide. He can be contacted at seaky2000 at yahoo dot com.
 
About Dark Cyber
 
The weekly video program is distributed via YouTube. It features news and analysis related to the Dark Web and lesser known Internet services. Each week program provides a snapshot of one or more companies providing specialized services to the law enforcement, intelligence, and security sectors.

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