Article: Computer Forensics Plays A Key Role In War On Terrorism

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 ...

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