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An Overview - What would a hacker profiler do? (Let's first come up with a
job description)

There have been 16 murders in the small town of OhNoHelpUs over the last
two months. The city has police officers making extra patrols of the
neighborhoods, and has teams of detectives working around the clock.
Physical evidence is gathered. Still, no suspects.

Although this is a fictional scenario (I know that I'd have people writing
in asking me where the town of OhNoHelpUs is located), there have been many
cases like this which are true to life. What law enforcement eventually
realized, is that they needed to get into the heads of the criminals. A
good profiler has the ability to develop a suspect not through identifying
physical evidence (such as fingerprints), but through scenarios,
circumstances, and similarities.

"Digital Crimes, Terrorism, and Warfare" take these types of events to even
new levels. People hiding behind invisible walls created by the
manipulation of data. A realm where no physical evidence exists. In other
words, you'll find no DNA or Fingerprints here.

A profiler could potentially be more valuable in the "digital realm" than
any other area. A realm where the only evidence that exists may be that of
scenario, circumstance, and similarity. Yet, to date, this is an area which
is completely void of such personnel.

But why? Well, I'd guess there are two primary reasons. The first and most
obvious one, would be that the "Digital Realm" is a new one, and the powers
that be are simply behind the ball. The other, is probably the lack of
"intelligence". Profilers use past cases, evidence, and suspects, to help
"predict" what current, and future, cases, evidence, and suspects might be
like. Currently, there is very little data in the mainstream world which
would help a profiler to "develop" that ability.

But just because the mainstream hasn't gotten a hold of the data, doesn't
mean that it doesn't exist. What I hope to cover in this report are just a
few of the many scenarios, circumstances, and similarities, that I've found
by working with the "underground" over the years. I hope that you'll find
it interesting, informative, and perhaps, foreshadowing, of some of the
techniques which may some day be common tools in the "Digital Profiler's"
arsenal.

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