Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Part 2 MOBILE FORENSICS AND EVIDENCE DEGREES

Part 2 MOBILE FORENSICS AND EVIDENCE DEGREES

I have received a question about the Degrees and whether there is sufficient educational material for them.

Q: Is there 10 years worth of educational material for a Degree?

A: Yes, I have been dealing with GSM for over 15 years and I have reference material and standards going back to 1991 and books that discuss GSM going back to 1988. There are, at mimimum, 100 academic books on GSM. If a starting point for the Degrees were needed then I would probably suggest 1992 as the best reference point to start.

With reference to GSM Standards, there are over a million pages of standards. For instance for GSM there are standards that originate from GSM Phase 1 (1991-1995), GSM Phase 2 (1995 onwards), GSM Phase 2+ (known as Releases R96, R97, R98 etc). To give an illustration how GSM is still going strong, the latest GSM 11.11 standard for SIM cards was published in June 2007.

The original discussion about Degrees can be found here:

http://trewmte.blogspot.com/2009/01/mobile-forensics-and-evidence-degrees.html

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