Aryana Libris

Author : Caloyannides Michael A.
Title : Privacy protection and computer forensics
Year : 2004

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Introduction. If you give me six lines written by the most honest man, I will find something in them to hang him. Cardinal Richelieu. In any country’s court of law, evidence is as compelling as - and often more compelling than - personal testimony by a credible eyewitness. The well-known warning given to criminal suspects in American movies “anything you say can and will be used against you” applies to any country and is not limited to criminal proceedings, but applies to civil litigation as well where no such warning is given. Furthermore, what “can and will be used against you” is not only what you say, but also what evidence can be obtained against you. Most every person knows only too well that evidence can - and has often been - planted, manufactured, or simply taken selectively out of context to paint an image that bears little resemblance to reality. Up until about a decade ago, documentary evidence was mostly on paper. Even computer evidence amounted to reams of printed pages. This is no longer the case. The electronic version of a file that was created by and/or stored in a computer can be far more damaging to an individual or to an organization because it contains not only the documentary evidence itself but also “data about the data” (such as when it was created, when it was revised, how it was revised, using whose software). ...