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Imaging - ✔✔Duplicate data (bit-stream) to preserve the original data
Exceptions to 4th amendment.
Conditions required toSeize without a Warrant. - ✔✔1. NO reasonable expectation of privacy.
2. Falls within an established exception to the warrant requirement.
Electronic Communications Service (ECS) - ✔✔Any service which provides the ability to
send or receive electronic communications.
Remote Computing Service (RCS) - ✔✔Computer storage or processing services provided by
electronic communications,
Electronic Communications Privacy act (ECPA) applies to: - ✔✔communications that include
e-mail, text messaging, networking software, blogs, and video conferencing.
,Requires subpoena, warrant or court order in order to force disclosure.
Electronic Communications Privacy act (ECPA)
classes of information: - ✔✔Basic subscriber information,
Records or Information pertaining to customer or subscriber.
Contents in USC 2510
Computer records fall into what 3 categories? - ✔✔1. Computer Generated.
2. Computer Stored.
3. Both Generated and Stored
They require authentication.
Plain View Policy - ✔✔Officer or agent has the ability to seize objects without a
warrant, when they are somewhere they have legal authority to be, and
they immediately recognize the object as illegal.
4th Amendment - ✔✔Right or expectation of Privacy
Governs the lawful search of a person, place, or thing.
Digital Evidence is defined as: - ✔✔Information of "probative value"
that is stored or transmitted in digital form.
,Anti-Digital Forensic techniques: - ✔✔Overwriting data (Wiping).
Exploitation of bugs in forensic tools.
Obfuscation.
Hiding Data (Steganography, Cryptography, low-tech...)
Volatile Data - ✔✔Can be modified, rapidly.
Non-Volatile data - ✔✔Secondary storage of data.
Long term, persistent data.
Transient Data - ✔✔Programs that reside in memory and cache data.
(i.e. network connection, user logout, ...)
Fragile Data - ✔✔Data temporarily saved to the hard disk and can be changed. (i.e. time
stamps, access times...)
Temporarily-Accessible Data - ✔✔Stored on hard disk and are accessible for a certain amount
of time.
Active Data - ✔✔Data used for daily operations.
, Archival Data - ✔✔long term storage of data.
Backup Data - ✔✔Copy of system data, used for the recovery process.
Residual Data - ✔✔Data stored on a computer. in unassigned storage space, after it is deleted.
Metadata - ✔✔data about a particular document.
Rules for allowing duplicate evidence. - ✔✔Original evidence is not available, due to:
-Evidence destroyed due to an uncontrollable event (Fire/ Flood).
-Evidence destroyed in normal course of business.
-Original evidence in possession of a third party.
Sources of data for digital evidence. - ✔✔Server.
Storage devices.
Logs.
Internal hardware.
Swap file - ✔✔space on a hard disk, used as the virtual memory extension of a computer's
real memory (RAM).
Digital evidence tends to be what kind of evidence? - ✔✔Circumstantial Evidence
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