Book Review: Mac OS X, iPod, and iPhone Forensic Analysis DVD Toolkit
<p class="JDFSLParagraph">Varsalone, J. (Tech. Ed.), Kubasiak, R.R., Morrissey, S., et al. (2009). <em>Mac OS X, iPod, and iPhone Forensic Analysis DVD Toolkit.</em> Burlington, MA: Syngress. 551 + xix pages, ISBN: 978-1-59749-297-3, US$59.95.</p><p class="J...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Association of Digital Forensics, Security and Law
2008-12-01
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| Series: | Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law |
| Online Access: | http://ojs.jdfsl.org/index.php/jdfsl/article/view/172 |
| Summary: | <p class="JDFSLParagraph">Varsalone, J. (Tech. Ed.), Kubasiak, R.R., Morrissey, S., et al. (2009). <em>Mac OS X, iPod, and iPhone Forensic Analysis DVD Toolkit.</em> Burlington, MA: Syngress. 551 + xix pages, ISBN: 978-1-59749-297-3, US$59.95.</p><p class="JDFSLParagraph"><em>Reviewed by Gary C. Kessler (gary.kessler@champlain.edu)</em></p><p class="JDFSLParagraph">At last! A quality book about computer forensics for Apple products! Alas, I get ahead of myself.</p><p class="JDFSLParagraph">Apple's hold on the personal computer marketplace started dwindling on August 12, 1981, the day that the IBM PC was introduced. As an Apple ][+ bigot myself, I refused to touch a PC for some years. But I was also a command line bigot, so when the first Macintosh was introduced in 1983 and hermetically sealed the operating system from users, I did not go out and buy one. In fact, like many of my era, I did eventually end up on the PC side which, ironically, let me do many of the things that my trusty Apple ][+ had in earlier times -- write code, play with the hardware, and, indeed, get to a command line. And, of course, tons of application developers flocked to the PC because of its open architecture.</p><p class="JDFSLParagraph">(see PDF for full review)</p> |
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| ISSN: | 1558-7215 1558-7223 |