Digging through digital data.(Tech Talk)(Brief Article) From: Security Management | Date: July 1, 2004| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2004 American Society for Industrial Security. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

Work done by law enforcement professionals to unlock the secrets left on a computer by a criminal is becoming standard front-page fare; witness the recent speedy investigation and arrest of an 18-year-old German youth charged with creating the devastating Sasser worm. As cutting-edge as such investigations seem, the basics of digital evidence collection go back to the late 1940s with mathematical formulas that distilled information into binary code.

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