Podcasts about Anchorage Press

Celebrating Women's History Month I interviewed Corinna Delgado a poet, emcee, red carpet reporter, tv reporter at DCW 50 and radio broadcaster at Mix 106.5 Baltimore 94.7 the drive in Washington D.C and remotely at hot 95.9 Austin Texas. We discussed her journey into Broadcasting on the radio and becoming a highly sought after person in the industry. How being in the military helped her with the work ethic she has now. Corinna Delgado has been a voice in broadcasting for over 20 years on more than 12 stations across the country. ​ Delgado has been a Reporter & Anchor for ABC and FOX affiliates in Anchorage, AK. ​ As a Journalist, she has written for The Anchorage Daily News, The Anchorage Press and The Northern Light. Delgado has also published 4 books, including 3 poetry compilations and 1 therapeutic creative writing workbook. ​ In addition to opening for countless acclaimed artists, Def Poetry Jam, Grammy winning artists The Roots, World Poetry Champion Buddy Wakefield, and many more, Delgado has won 2 State-Wide poetry Championships, ranked Nationally within the top ten performance poets with PSI (Poetry Slam Incorporated), and has been to Folsom Prison twice to perform for inmates with the Arts in Correction Program. Delgado also took the stage at TEDx Anchorage, performing a multi-media poetic monologue entitled "The Divine Connection of the Human Condition". Corinna is a dedicated humanitarian. She is a former commissioner on the Municipal Arts Advisory Commission for Anchorage Alaska. Delgado taught a 3 part therapeutic Writing Course "Writing as Therapy" in schools districts and correctional facilities across the states for over a decade. Delgado was the Development Director for AWAIC (The Abused Women's Aid In Crisis Shelter) and most recently performed for numerous community focused events during the pandemic. She continues to use her broadcast connections and art to serve as a platform for human rights issues. Delgado credits the 6 years served as a Combat Medic in the military as her foundation of service to others. A sought after public speaker, Corinna has been an emcee and key note speaker for such groups as The United Way, The NAACP, The National Endowment for The Arts, and The YWCA, to name a few. ​ Delgado can be heard waking up our Nation's Capitol on 94.7 The Drive, as well as Mid-Days on Baltimore's MIX 106.5, remotely on HOT 95.9 in Austin, TX and Planet 102.3 in Corpus Christi, TX. From her website https://corinna-delgado.wixsite.com/my-site-2

In this episode, Cody talks to O'Hara Shipe. She's a former professional hockey player and a journalist. She started playing hockey at 5 years old after she was told she couldn't because she's a girl. So, the next thing she did was go to her parents and tell them that's what she was gonna to do. They signed her up that fall and she walked over to the coach and said she was gonna be their next goalie.   She's never liked being told that she's limited, that she can't do something. So, when her professional hockey career came to an end in 2013, it was devastating. She contracted viral meningitis from a dirty back injection. The infection led to myalgic encephalomyelitis, or ME, and causes neurological disorders. Hand tremors, memory loss, neuropathy, excruciating pain. There are even times when her ability to speak is taken from her. When she was first diagnosed, she was bed-bound, but she worked her way up to playing hockey and rock climbing a couple times a week. She's an eternal optimist. That's how she defines herself in so many aspects of her life, and the last thing she was going to do was let this illness define her.   Before she was its editor, she took photos and wrote articles for the Anchorage Press. The second article she wrote for the paper was about the band Buckcherry. They were in Anchorage playing a show and they gave her a candid, warts-and-all interview. It was a transformative experience for her as a journalist, to see an entire picture of a celebrity, not just their public image. She says that was the turning point for her, when she really started to consider herself a writer. And the more she wrote and took photos for the paper, the better she understood the function of alt-weeklies, how they provide a unique opportunity to talk about the things that fall outside of traditional media, the human stories behind the news.   When she became the editor of the Anchorage Press, she wanted to return it to what she considered its heyday. For her, that was under the editorship of Susy Buchanan. O'Hara says the paper was well-designed, the stories were insightful, hard-hitting and they had a point of view. Her goal was to return it back to that, but with such a small budget to pay contributors it was hard. Instead of being able to pay contributors each week for content, she was responsible for writing four or five articles and taking most of the photos. It was definitely a labor of love. She'd go on 36-hour work benders to design, copy-edit and rewrite articles when necessary. This lasted for about nine months, and then on December 16, 2022 she was told the paper was closing and was given less than an hour to gather her things.

In the mid-90s and early 2000s, Josh Medsker documented the Alaska punk scene. He started out as a fan, attending as many shows as he could, and then he began documenting the scene. For about three years, he wrote for the University of Alaska Anchorage student paper, “The Northern Light,” the city's alt-weekly, “The Anchorage Press,” and for his own publication, “Noise, Noise, Noise.” Articles, interviews, anything he could do to help tell the story of punk in Alaska. The scene was so vibrant and the energy was so infectious, that he felt a responsibility to capture as much as he could.  There were bands with names like Skate Death, Psychedelic Skeletons and Filipino Haircut. There were bands interested in the occult, bands interested in performance art, bands interested in making genuine punk music. There was even a band that lit themselves on fire. And they were all performing in venues and eventually warehouses. But for it to be sustainable, there needed to be the right mix of culture bearers and promoters. Bands that created the music, venues that hosted shows, an alt-weekly newspaper that promoted the shows, and a college radio station that played the music. It was a mixture that sometimes worked out and sometimes didn't. When it worked out, the scene would flourish; when it didn't, the scene would fade.  Josh looks back on that time as some of the happiest moments of his life. He remembers going into local music stores and buying local music. How special it was to buy a tape and listen to a local band, knowing that these musicians were walking the same streets that he walked. They understood his interests and his point of view.

In the mid-90s and early 2000s, Josh Medsker documented the Alaska punk scene. He started out as a fan, attending as many shows as he could, and then he began documenting the scene. For about three years, he wrote for the University of Alaska Anchorage student paper, “The Northern Light,” the city's alt-weekly, “The Anchorage Press,” and for his own publication, “Noise, Noise, Noise.” Articles, interviews, anything he could do to help tell the story of punk in Alaska. The scene was so vibrant and the energy was so infectious, that he felt a responsibility to capture as much as he could.  There were bands with names like Skate Death, Psychedelic Skeletons and Filipino Haircut. There were bands interested in the occult, bands interested in performance art, bands interested in making genuine punk music. There was even a band that lit themselves on fire. And they were all performing in venues and eventually warehouses. But for it to be sustainable, there needed to be the right mix of culture bearers and promoters. Bands that created the music, venues that hosted shows, an alt-weekly newspaper that promoted the shows, and a college radio station that played the music. It was a mixture that sometimes worked out and sometimes didn't. When it worked out, the scene would flourish; when it didn't, the scene would fade.  Josh looks back on that time as some of the happiest moments of his life. He remembers going into local music stores and buying local music. How special it was to buy a tape and listen to a local band, knowing that these musicians were walking the same streets that he walked. They understood his interests and his point of view.

When Mike Robbins was running for Mayor of Anchorage, the liberal newspaper, Anchorage Press, did a story on him calling him "Trump Lite" presumably because of Robbins involvement as State Chair of the Trump Presidential campaign and his foray into pageants and fast times in his younger days.Mike has become a good friend and brother in Christ over the years and he is as interesting as he is pro-active in taking life by the horns.Currently, Robbins serves as Executive Director of the Anchorage Community Development Authority and was also recently elected as the Vice Chair of the Alaska Republican Party at their convention in Fairbanks.In addition to the many hats Mike wears, he is also orchestrating a massive effort to bring 600 Ukrainians to Alaska in what will ultimately be three filled up commercial jets doing round trips from Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport to Poland to "facilitate their transport and acceptance as refugees into the United States, specifically Alaska, and to support their integration into our country." Click HERE to learn more about this beautiful act of kindness.I'm beyond privileged to welcome Mike Robbins on "I'm Glad you Said That" today to discuss politics, economic opportunities in Anchorage and looking out for the least of these by bringing hope to war savaged, Ukrainian families.Support the show

“We have to go to them”: The Klatt Elementary Back-to-School Picnic   On this episode we take a trip to the Klatt Elementary Back-to-School picnic and discover why that barbeque, in an unused lot, on a dead end street, is not a dead end in itself, but rather a new beginning.   Featuring: Mary Wood – Klatt Elementary Assistant Principle Genevieve Stephens - Klatt Elementary Librarian Alicia Busick - Klatt PTA Secretary   https://www.facebook.com/Klatt-Elementary-PTA-1124082301000466   https://www.facebook.com/Klatt-Elementary-626849704612492   https://www.asdk12.org/klatt   https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/education/2021/08/17/masks-hand-sanitizer-and-first-day-excitement-thousands-of-students-across-anchorage-go-back-to-school-in-person/   #allpeople All during this season of the AnchorEd City Podcast we are exploring places in the city where things are, or are becoming, more like they should be for all people.   During the months of September, October, and November we are partnering with Kaladi Brothers Coffee to hear from you about what would make Anchorage the way it is supposed to be for all people. Go to: AnchorageUTC.org/allpeople for participating locations and more info.   Can't make it to a café?  No worries. You can share your thoughts by going to facebook.com/AnchorageUTC.   Nominate The AnchorED City for Best Podcast (in the entertainment section) of the Anchorage Press 2021 Press Picks here:   http://anchoragepress.secondstreetapp.com/Press-Picks-2021/   Nominations close Sept. 23, 2021.

Kristen tries to scare Sara in this one. This week these wine-o's discuss what they think is roaming around those mountains. Is it an alaska bull worm? No, its the natiinuq of Portlock, Alaska. In honor of the indigenous lives that often forget please be sure to check out and donate to: https://www.indian-affairs.org/donations.html Check out Mr.Ballens Youtube video on portlock (last story): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2u2_q4tFp8 Be sure to follow us at: Twitter: @rarwpodcast Instagram: @rarwpodcast Contact us at: E-mail: redrumandredwinepodcast@gmail.com All music written and produced by: Savasas savasas | Free Listening on SoundCloud Resources: Coast View. “Portlock, Port Chatham.” CoastView, coastview.org/articles/2019/12/02/portlock-port-chatham/. “Haunting Memories - 'Nantiinaq' Sightings, Spirits Led to Desertion of Native Village.” The Mouth of The Kenai, 28 Oct. 2009, redoubtreporter.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/haunting-memories-%E2%80%94-%E2%80%98nantiinaq%E2%80%99-sightings-spirits-led-to-desertion-of-native-village/. Pfeifle, Tess. “Port Chatham, Alaska.” Astonishing Legends, Astonishing Legends, 26 Sept. 2020, www.astonishinglegends.com/astonishing-legends/2020/6/30/port-chatham-alaska. “Port Chatham Left to Spirits: Homer Tribune.” Port Chatham Left to Spirits | Homer Tribune, web.archive.org/web/20111220023816/homertribune.com/2009/10/port-chatham-left-to-spirits/. Mike. “Sasquatch Classics: Murder and Mayhem in Portlock, Alaska.” Texas Cryptid Hunter, 1 Jan. 1970, texascryptidhunter.blogspot.com/2015/08/sasquatch-classics-murder-and-mayhem-in.html. Smith, Darren “HarpDaddy.” “Framing Nantiinaq: Alaska's Best Known Cryptid Homicide Case Debunked.” The Anchorage Press, 23 Apr. 2021, www.anchoragepress.com/news/framing-nantiinaq-alaska-s-best-known-cryptid-homicide-case-debunked/article_ed6facfe-a1f9-11eb-b7fc-0bba856ee2fe.html.

What connects the Captain Cook statue, a missing Black Lives Matter banner, and housing covenants in Anchorage?  We explore the answer to that question in this episode.   Resources used to make this episode: http://www.cc.com/video-playlists/qkhul9/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-between-the-scenes/g34af5 https://www.alaskapublic.org/2020/06/29/most-agree-on-the-story-of-captain-cooks-time-in-cook-inlet-they-differ-on-how-to-tell-it/ Oleksa, M., 1992, Orthodox Alaska: A theology of mission, St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, Crestwood. Newcomb, S., 1992, ‘Five hundred years of injustice', Indigenous Law Institute, n.d., viewed 30 January 2019, from http://ili.nativeweb.org/sdrm_art.html. Indigenous Values Initiative, 2018, Dum diversas, viewed 14 February 2019, from https://doctrineofdiscovery.org/dum-diversas/. Charles, M., 2016, ‘The doctrine of discovery, war, and the myth of America', Leaven 24(3), 147-154. http://www.alaskool.org/projects/JimCrow/cov_res.htm https://www.alaskapublic.org/2020/02/28/illegal-for-decades-many-anchorage-homes-still-have-covenants-that-prohibit-sale-to-blacks-and-alaska-natives/ Wohlforth, C., 2017, ‘How some Anchorage neighbors redeemed the city's racist past', Alaska Daily News, 27 February, 2017, viewed 30 January 2019, from https://www.adn.com/opinions/2017/02/27/how-some-anchorage-neighbors-redeemed-the-citys- racist-past/. Ford, A., 2017, ‘Redlining in Fairview', Anchorage Press, 23 February, 2017, viewed 30 January 2019, from https://www.anchoragepress.com/news/redlininginfairview/article_cb0037a0-f9a7-11e6- b9eb-5fef409ab819.html. https://www.alaskapublic.org/2020/09/07/hundreds-gather-in-anchorage-over-holiday-to-commemorate-march-on-washington-anniversary/ https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/anchorage/2020/09/07/anchorage-labor-day-rally-urging-racial-equality-draws-hundreds-of-supporters/ https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/anchorage/2020/06/25/mayor-berkowitz-to-have-native-village-of-eklutna-decide-what-to-do-with-downtown-captain-cook-statue/ www.smallchurchmusic.com/Song_Display-New.php?SID=2644

Are you energetically giving your power to someone else? Is that the relationship you want? Energy cords bind us to people and situations and could be a reason you feel exhausted and drained. Learn simple and easy techniques to "cut cords" and set yourself free. During the episode we recommend Float Alaska in Palmer, AK for soaking in a salt bath/sensory depravation tank. Float Alaska where all amenities are provided for you from towels to shampoo. You just show up for 90min of relaxation and pain relief. Mention School of Woo Woo for 10% off your first float. https://www.floatalaska.net/about Click here to vote School of Woo Woo for Best Podcast of Anchorage with the Anchorage Press!  Get even more Woo Woo! Monthly moon circles and Woo Woo conversation available through our Patreon. Enroll in School of Woo Woo by subscribing on iTunes, Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts. While there please drop us a review! Find us on Facebook, Instagram or our website www.schoolofwoowoo.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/schoolofwoowoo/message

Cuzzo answers a listener question of why he doesn’t tag Docious on social media. Snoop issues an apology to Gayle King. Did Susan Rice have a role to play? Iowa Democratic Party chairman Troy Price resigns after the huge caucus mess from last week. We talk Malcolm X and thoughts on if it matters who killed him more than the why. Cuzzo touches on why he thinks Birds Of Prey failed at the box office last weekend and also reacts to his Jussie Smollett prediction from last year. Can Bernie Sanders win the general election? Joe Biden calls someone a “lying dog faced pony soldier” and Docious wants to know why people pick on hip hop as the major influencer to black culture. Also thanks to all of you who checked out our interview in the Anchorage Press!   Extra Media: Apple Fined: https://www.businessinsider.com/france-fines-apple-27-million-for-intentional-iphone-throttling-2020-2?amp   Juicy Indicted: https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/jussie-smollett-accused-of-lying-to-cpd-indicted-on-6-counts-of-disorderly-conduct.amp   Iowa Chairman Resigns: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/482855-iowa-democratic-party-chairman-resigns?amp Roger Stone Juror: https://amp.dailycaller.com/2020/02/13/roger-stone-jury-selection Kaepernick & XFL: https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/oliver-luck-says-xfl-considered-colin-kaepernick-explains-why-former-49ers-quarterback-isnt-in-league/amp/ Space Signals every 16 days: https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/4726301002      

Alaska Authors Caroline Van Hemert and Lisa Maloney come together to discuss writing about wild relationships in Alaska. Caroline Van Hemert is a wildlife biologist and author of The Sun Is A Compass, A 4,000-Mile Journey into The Alaskan Wilds. She received her PhD in the Dept. of Biology and Wildlife at UAF with a research focus on avian health and disease. Lisa Maloney has lived in Alaska for 30 years. A full-time travel and outdoors writer, she's the author of three guidebooks, including the award-winning "Moon Alaska," and "Day Hiking Southcentral Alaska," which features 100 hikes with detailed route descriptions and color photos. Lisa also served as senior editor at Alaska magazine, and has freelanced as an outdoors columnist for the Anchorage Press and Anchorage Daily News.

Aimee is a 42 year old Cannabis activist, writer, and mother. She moved to Alaska in 2005 from WA state. Aimee writes for Anchorage Press and Alaska Leaf. She enjoys riding bikes, reading books, adventuring, and exploring life with her two sons.

In the new guidebook Day Hiking Southcentral Alaska, Lisa Maloney explores the most rewarding trails in and around the Mat-Su Valley, Chugach State Park, Skilak and Kenai Lakes, Whittier, Seward, Homer, and more. 100 hikes are featured with detailed route descriptions and color photos to help people get out and enjoy Southcentral. In addition, Lisa Maloney shares the oops, ouches, "brrrr"s and thrills of hiking with lessons she has learned over the years. Lisa Maloney has lived in Alaska for more than 25 years. A former outdoors columnist for The Anchorage Press, she served as senior editor at Alaska magazine and authored the award winning travel guidebook Moon Alaska.

In this episode, we have a conversation with longtime alt-weekly journalist and documentarian David Holthouse. Holthouse has worked for the Anchorage Daily News, the Anchorage Press, and the Village Voice in Phoenix. This episode was recorded in a studio. 

In part two of my interview with Amy and Jake Malouf, we discuss the verdict from their October 11, 2016 Mormon Disciplinary Council on charges of Apostasy, along with their reactions to the verdict. This is a link to the recent article from the Anchorage Press about Amy and Jake's disciplinary council. This is a link to the letter Amy and Jake read during their disciplinary council.

Eowyn Ivey’s new book To the Bright Edge of the World and Kris Farmen’s new book Blue Ticket will be the topics for this literary gathering. Kris Farmen is an Alaskan novelist, historian, and freelance journalist. His first novel, The Devil's Share, drew high critical praise. His writing has also appeared in Alaska magazine, The Anchorage Press, The Surfer's Path, and Mushing magazine, among others. He lives on the lower Kenai Peninsula. Eowyn Ivey was raised in Alaska and continues to live there with her husband and two daughters. Her debut novel The Snow Child was a finalist for the Pulitzer, a UK National Book Award winner, and a New York Times bestseller. Topics included in the discussion are using myth and history, Alaska place names and landscape, for writing fiction.

Alaskan authors Charles Wohlforth, Debra McKinney and Kaylene Johnson-Sullivan discuss he numerous challenges faced in co-writing another’s life story. Charles Wohlforth co-authored To Russia With Love, An Alaskan’s Journey (Victor Fischer); Debra McKinney co-authored Beyond the Bear How I Learned to Live and Love Again after Being Blinded by a Bear (Dan Bigley), and Kaylene Johnson-Sullivan co- authored Our Perfect Wild: Ray and Barbara Bane's Journeys and the Fate of the Far North. (Ray Bane) • Charles Wohlforth has authored of more than 10 books including The Whale and the Supercomputer and the book The Fate of Nature: Rediscovering Our Ability to Rescue the Earth. His column appears three times weekly in the Alaska Dispatch and he hosts radio shows on Alaska Public Media. • Debra McKinney is a renowned Alaskan writer and journalist. A long time contributor to the Alaska Daily News, her articles can be found in the Anchorage Press and Forum, the Magazine of the Alaska Humanities Forum. • Kaylene Johnson-Sullivan is Executive Director Kenai Mountains-Turnagain Arm National Heritage Area. She is author of 5 books including Canyons and Ice, the Wilderness Travels of Dick Griffith; A Tender Distance: Adventures Raising My Son in Alaska; and Trails Across Time: History of An Alaska Mountain Corridor. Her articles have appeared in Alaska Magazine and the Los Angeles Times.

Josh Medsker hails from Anchorage, Alaska and is the creator/founder of the music & literary 'zine, Twenty-Four Hours. His 'zine is the perfect example of how his writing straddles both music journalism and prose/poetry. Issue #10 is out now and features a personal essay by Josh about youth, musical discovery and the salvation that only come from a song. His writing has appeared in various publications including Maximumrocknroll, Perfect Sound Forever, Jersey Beat, The Anchorage Press, The Austin Chronicle, San Francisco Bay Guardian and NoDepression.com. He regularly publishes poetry and other creative work. He currently resides in New Jersey with his wife, Leigh, and their four furry children. Visit Twenty-Four Hours online:www.twentyfourhoursonline.org joshmedsker@gmail.com The paper version of TFH is available at the following bookstores:NYC- Bluestockings BooksCHICAGO- Quimby’s Books Or online:The TFH Etsy Shop www.etsy.com/shop/twentyfourhourspress Talk Music Talk 006 Playlist/Josh Medsker Edition: This week's Spotify playlist takes a turn for the punk. And post-punk. And a bit of metal, too. Wonderfully curated by Josh Medsker, it features tracks from past Twenty-Four Hours interviewees like The Dead Milkmen and The Cramps, alongside additional choice cuts from Joy Division and Motörhead. My advice? First, listen to the podcast then go online and read the latest issue of Twenty-Four Hours and let this careening playlist be your soundtrack. http://open.spotify.com/user/therattlecat/playlist/4bNmZLc0FmGr8z0An2VMBM   For more information on TMT, visit: www.talkmusictalk.comOr my personal site: www.thisisboice.com Subscribe to my YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/thisisboice?sub_confirmation=1   Subscribe to TMT on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/talk-music-talk-with-boice/id942357796?mt=2 Or Stitcher Radio: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=57350&refid=stpr If you enjoy the podcast, please take a moment to leave a review and/or rating. Thanks!   "Liz (The Talk Music Talk Theme)"-long version Composed on an iPad by boice. https://soundcloud.com/thisisboice/liz-talk-music-talk-theme

Kris is a novelist, historian and award-winning freelance journalist. He was a professional archaeologist for ten years before getting laid off and turning to writing full time, an occupation that, like archaeology, often sounds a lot more glamorous than it really is. His novels include Turn Again and The Devil’s Share, and his novella Edge of Somewhere appeared in the recent collection Weathered Edge. He is a semi-regular contributor to Alaska magazine, and his essays about various eclectic subjects—surfing in Alaska, log cabin building, and the demise of Xtratufs, to name a few—have appeared for several years in The Anchorage Press. Kris is a seasonal nomad who divides his time between Anchorage and his off-the-grid cabin near Homer.

Ben grew up in Soldotna and works for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. He has written for the Anchorage Press and the Daily News. He once tried to eat part of an orange that had been dipped in liquified natural gas, but it froze onto his tongue.

Born and raised in Fairbanks, Casey is a UAF alumnus and has lived and worked in Anchorage as a journalist since 2006. After doing time at the Anchorage Press, KTUU Channel 2 and the Anchorage Daily News, Casey and his dog Jupiter now work at the Alaska Dispatch. The dog does not work very hard. Casey likes riding powder, hitting the tennis ball with a hockey stick for the dog, hanging out with his cat, talking shit, the Oxford comma and many other things.

Panelists include Matt Tunseth (editor of Anchorage Press), Steve Heimel (Alaska Public Media ), Paola Banchero (JPC/UAA) and attorney John McKay (JPC/UAA). At this event issues concerning Wiki Leaks, the Guardian Newspaper, national security, and censorship will be discussed. This event is held in honor of Banned Book Week.

cross the world law enforcement, enterprises and national security apparatus utilize a small but important set of software tools to perform data recovery and investigations. These tools are expected to perform a large range of dangerous functions, such as parsing dozens of different file systems, email databases and dense binary file formats. Although the software we tested is considered a critical part of the investigatory cycle in the criminal and civil legal worlds, our testing demonstrated important security flaws within only minutes of fault injection. In this talk, we will present our findings from applying several software exploitation techniques to leading commercial and open-source forensics packages. We will release several new file and file system fuzzing tools that were created in support of this research, as well as demonstrate how to use the tools to create your own malicious hard drives and files. This talk will make the following arguments: 1. Forensic software vendors are not paranoid enough. Vendors must operate under the assumption that their software is under concerted attack. 2. Vendors do not take advantage of the protections for native code that platforms provide, such as stack overflow protection, memory page protection), safe exception handling, etc. 3. Forensic software customers use insufficient acceptance criteria when evaluating software packages. Criteria typically address only functional correctness during evidence acquisition when no attacker is present, yet forensic investigations are adversarial. 4. Methods for testing the quality of forensic software are not meaningful, public, or generally adopted. Our intention is to expose the security community to the techniques and importance of testing forensics software, and to push for a greater cooperation between the customers of forensics software to raise the security standard to which such software is held. Chris Palmer is a security consultant with iSEC Partners, performing application penetration tests, code reviews, and security research. Tim Newsham is a security consultant with iSEC Partners. He has over a decade of experience in computer security research, development and testing. Alex Stamos is the co-founder and VP of Professional Services at iSEC Partners, a leading provider of application security services. Alex is an experienced security engineer and consultant specializing in application security and securing large infrastructures, and has taught multiple classes in network and application security. He is a well-known researcher in the field of software security and has been a featured speaker at top industry conferences such as BlackHat, CanSecWest, DefCon, Toorcon, SyScan, Microsoft BlueHat, the Web 2.0 Expo, InfraGuard, ISACA and OWASP. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. Chris K. Ridder is a Residential Fellow at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society (CIS). His research interests include the full range of issues that arise at the intersection of technology and the law, including the application of intellectual property law to software and the Internet, and the impact of technological change on privacy and civil liberties. Prior to joining CIS, Chris was an associate at Fish & Richardson P.C. and subsequently Simpson Thacher and Barltett LLP, where he litigated a broad range of patent, intellectual property and complex commercial cases. From 2001-2002, he was a law clerk for the Honorable Mariana R. Pfaelzer of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. Chris received his J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley (Boalt Hall) in 2001. Before he went to law school, Chris was a newspaper editor and publisher where he served, among other positions, as Editor-in-Chief of the Anchorage Press, the largest weekly newspaper in Anchorage, Alaska.

cross the world law enforcement, enterprises and national security apparatus utilize a small but important set of software tools to perform data recovery and investigations. These tools are expected to perform a large range of dangerous functions, such as parsing dozens of different file systems, email databases and dense binary file formats. Although the software we tested is considered a critical part of the investigatory cycle in the criminal and civil legal worlds, our testing demonstrated important security flaws within only minutes of fault injection. In this talk, we will present our findings from applying several software exploitation techniques to leading commercial and open-source forensics packages. We will release several new file and file system fuzzing tools that were created in support of this research, as well as demonstrate how to use the tools to create your own malicious hard drives and files. This talk will make the following arguments: 1. Forensic software vendors are not paranoid enough. Vendors must operate under the assumption that their software is under concerted attack. 2. Vendors do not take advantage of the protections for native code that platforms provide, such as stack overflow protection, memory page protection), safe exception handling, etc. 3. Forensic software customers use insufficient acceptance criteria when evaluating software packages. Criteria typically address only functional correctness during evidence acquisition when no attacker is present, yet forensic investigations are adversarial. 4. Methods for testing the quality of forensic software are not meaningful, public, or generally adopted. Our intention is to expose the security community to the techniques and importance of testing forensics software, and to push for a greater cooperation between the customers of forensics software to raise the security standard to which such software is held. Chris Palmer is a security consultant with iSEC Partners, performing application penetration tests, code reviews, and security research. Tim Newsham is a security consultant with iSEC Partners. He has over a decade of experience in computer security research, development and testing. Alex Stamos is the co-founder and VP of Professional Services at iSEC Partners, a leading provider of application security services. Alex is an experienced security engineer and consultant specializing in application security and securing large infrastructures, and has taught multiple classes in network and application security. He is a well-known researcher in the field of software security and has been a featured speaker at top industry conferences such as BlackHat, CanSecWest, DefCon, Toorcon, SyScan, Microsoft BlueHat, the Web 2.0 Expo, InfraGuard, ISACA and OWASP. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. Chris K. Ridder is a Residential Fellow at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society (CIS). His research interests include the full range of issues that arise at the intersection of technology and the law, including the application of intellectual property law to software and the Internet, and the impact of technological change on privacy and civil liberties. Prior to joining CIS, Chris was an associate at Fish & Richardson P.C. and subsequently Simpson Thacher and Barltett LLP, where he litigated a broad range of patent, intellectual property and complex commercial cases. From 2001-2002, he was a law clerk for the Honorable Mariana R. Pfaelzer of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. Chris received his J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley (Boalt Hall) in 2001. Before he went to law school, Chris was a newspaper editor and publisher where he served, among other positions, as Editor-in-Chief of the Anchorage Press, the largest weekly newspaper in Anchorage, Alaska.