Article: Shell game: in computer forensics, knowing where to look is as important as knowing what you're looking for. (enterprise security).

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 ...

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