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Article: Shell game: in computer forensics, knowing where to look is as important as knowing what you're looking for. (enterprise security).
- Article from:
- Enterprise Systems Journal
- Article date:
- June 1, 2002
- Author:
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If you've ever seen the CBS show "CSI" ("Crime Scene Investigation") then you know that "forensics" means the, science behind collecting and interpreting data in a criminal investigation.
Fans of the show know that catching a killer can revolve around analyzing and interpreting the most incredibly minute--even seemingly arcane, superfluous, and most of all, disgusting--details, such as the correlation between the development stages of maggot larvae (found on a corpse, of course) and time, in order to assess the time of death of a body.
Ambient Data
If the alleged criminal left evidence of the crime in a computer, perhaps in e-mail or Word ...