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Article: Computer Forensics Plays A Key Role In War On Terrorism
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- October 8, 2001
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LOS ANGELES, Oct. 8 /U.S. Newswire/ -- "Computer forensic
software is undoubtedly playing a key role in our war on terrorism
by recovering whole messages or fragments, even if they weren't
saved or printed on the PC", says Mark McLaughlin, Computer Forensic
Examiner and Expert Witness. Everything printed or merely displayed,
is stored somewhere on the harddrive. This is especially important
because it was reported the terrorists even used free public library
Internet PCs to access email.
Although they're probably not receiving or printing files like
Word or Excel, the message text is still stored in hidden areas of
the PC. Overwriting, or copying new data over deleted data, is the
only way ...