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  • Essay / Disadvantages of Digital Forensics - 1978

    This incident occurred in Canada. Where the body of a teenager was found. There was no evidence on how to put the suspects behind bars. The suspects were his classmates. Certainly they had burned his body but the traces remained there. So they had to dump his body elsewhere. Which they did. Investigators had difficulty finding evidence. They then resorted to the field of digital forensics. The field of digital forensics could secure their browser history, messages sent from cell phones, confessions in World of Warcraft chat, GPS data associated with a message sent from the murder location, searches on Google Maps for places to dump a body. This evidence helped investigators put the two teenagers behind bars. Now let's look at some tools used in the field of digital forensics [1] like disk and data capture tools, internet scanning tools, hidden file viewers, deleted email recovery and email recovery tools. network traffic analysis and analysis tools. Now let's look at some techniques used in digital forensics.1. Digital forensics