Article: Law and order: The vision of a district attorney--a National Computer Forensic Center--takes a grassroots approach to educate crime-fighters, reports Dan Kaplan.(Computer forensics)(Cover story)

By blood-and-guts standards, Cary, N.C. is as safe a suburb as there is in the nation. The 121,000-person bedroom community regularly ranks near the statistical bottom of all the major crime categories, including murders, aggravated assaults and robberies.

But considering the 42-square-mile town's proximity to the so-called Research Triangle, a hotbed of high-tech businesses in the piedmont of North Carolina, local leaders are not resting on their laurels. They know Cary's residents and businesses may not be staring down the barrel of a gun anytime soon, but they are attractive targets for a 21st century style of violence known as identity theft.

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