TY - GEN
T1 - Creating and integrating a FLOSS product into UK law enforcement
AU - Williams, Joseph
N1 - © IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2018
PY - 2018/6/16
Y1 - 2018/6/16
N2 - Open Source Internet Research Tool (OSIRT) is a free and open source software tool that enables law enforcement officials to conduct online research and obtain artefacts in an evidential and lawful manner. Over the past three years, OSIRT has seen growth from a handful of users within UK law enforcement, to a reach that extends to countries across the globe which also sees usage outside of law enforcement and beyond its original scope. This paper will reflect upon OSIRT’s development, and discusses issues surrounding the development of a FLOSS product for UK law enforcement. With cuts to budgets being made to law enforcement services, FLOSS software like OSIRT has an opportunity to flourish in this sector. To establish OSIRT’s and FLOSS’ integration into UK law enforcement, interviews, a small case study and questionnaires were conducted with serving police officers, police trainers and an IT administrator; all have experience with OSIRT.
AB - Open Source Internet Research Tool (OSIRT) is a free and open source software tool that enables law enforcement officials to conduct online research and obtain artefacts in an evidential and lawful manner. Over the past three years, OSIRT has seen growth from a handful of users within UK law enforcement, to a reach that extends to countries across the globe which also sees usage outside of law enforcement and beyond its original scope. This paper will reflect upon OSIRT’s development, and discusses issues surrounding the development of a FLOSS product for UK law enforcement. With cuts to budgets being made to law enforcement services, FLOSS software like OSIRT has an opportunity to flourish in this sector. To establish OSIRT’s and FLOSS’ integration into UK law enforcement, interviews, a small case study and questionnaires were conducted with serving police officers, police trainers and an IT administrator; all have experience with OSIRT.
KW - Internet investigations
KW - Law enforcement
KW - Open source intelligence
KW - Open source research
KW - Open source software
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85049028181&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-92375-8_10
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-92375-8_10
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85049028181
SN - 9783319923741
T3 - IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
SP - 117
EP - 127
BT - Open Source Systems
A2 - Stamelos, Ioannis
A2 - Gonzalez-Barahoña, Jesus M.
A2 - Varlamis, Iraklis
A2 - Anagnostopoulos, Dimosthenis
PB - Springer Nature Link
T2 - 14th IFIP WG 2.13 International Conference on Open Source Systems, OSS 2018
Y2 - 8 June 2018 through 10 June 2018
ER -