scottamoulton wrote:
fzabkar wrote:
poehere wrote:
I bought Scott Moulton's "data recovery" book, only to find that I could have got better value for my money at MacDonalds. BTW, your free guides are very useful. Thanks.
You clearly did not read what you were buying as the description was very clear. That book that is online is the material for the Infosec Institute class version 1.0 from 2007 that is only powerpoints and has no material it in, which is the class Infosec is still selling.
According to the date stamp on the PDF, I bought your "book" in 2010 from your store. The only record I can find dates back to Nov 2011.
http://web.archive.org/web/20111113184148/http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/smoultonhttp://web.archive.org/web/20111113184148/http://www.lulu.com/product/ebook/data-recovery-class-bw-version/17570311?productTrackingContext=author_spotlight_70992_Quote:
This is a COLOR book is detailed slides for a Class on Forensics & Data Recovery taught by Scott A. Moulton from Forensic Strategy Services. There is a lot of details in these slides with hundreds of pages of techniques on how to do data recovery and forensics
There were no "details" of any note, at least not to me, and I would argue that none of the information would have helped in any substantial way in any data recovery attempt. I certainly didn't find "hundreds of pages of techniques", just basic references.
If the product had been correctly described as just a bunch of PowerPoint slides with notes in point form (not "details"), then I wouldn't have been misled into buying it. In any case, is it ethical to ask people to pay for a course outline? Such a document is essentially just promotional material and would normally be freely available.
BTW, here is the "HARDBACK edition" of the same PDF:
http://web.archive.org/web/20111113184148/http://www.lulu.com/product/ebook/data-recovery-class-bw-hardback-book/17557785?productTrackingContext=author_spotlight_70992_Was anyone stupid enough to buy this "hardback" version ($15 versus $8.75)?
BTW, there was no mention of InfoSec, either in the "book" or at the store. If there had been, then I would have downloaded the entire unabridged course material from InfoSec's web site.