An interesting detective story dealing with hardware disassembly to check the provenance of micro SD cards:
http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=918
Not exactly trojan hardware, but a good case illustrating the actual level of trustworthiness of real hardware nonetheless, and it includes an interesting foray into the economics of micro SD production near the end.
[I picked this link up from a post to a private mailing list -Ed.]
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RFC 3227 is a handy resource for students interested in the challenges of beginning the recovery process:
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3227.html
I hadn’t known about this until reviewing a paper recently. This (short) RFC contains some guidelines for performing forensics on a compromised computer system. Nothing earth-shattering, but it does provide a nice collection of principles.
Why do these practices matter? Because expert witnesses and the legal system can easily question the quality of digital evidence:
http://www.piercelaw.edu/assets/pdf/release-mavis-case-expert-report.pdf
(this report received Slashdot coverage last summer).
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