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Is your client an attorney? Be aware of possible constraints on your...
Significant legal and ethical challenges confront digital forensics investigators, for which some may not be well prepared. Just as many lawyers may be confounded by technology in dealing with digital...
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Is your client an attorney? Be aware of possible constraints on your...
In my first post several weeks ago, I discussed some of the special obligations that digital forensics investigators may have while in the employ of a lawyer. I elaborated briefly on the duty to...
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Forensic Toolkit v3 Tips and Tricks ― Not on a Budget
A couple of weeks ago, Brian Glass posted a very helpful comment, Forensic Toolkit v3 Tips and Tricks — on a Budget. His comment focused on how to “get close to SSD performance on the cheap” and he...
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Another Judge Rules Encryption Passphrase not Testimonial Under Fifth...
I previously discussed, on a bar association section blog in 2007 (here) and 2009 (here), the case of In re Boucher, where a U.S. judge for the District of Vermont ruled that requiring a criminal...
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Eleventh Circuit Rules Defendant Cannot Be Compelled to Divulge Encryption...
Barely three weeks after I penned Another Judge Rules Encryption Passphrase not Testimonial Under Fifth Amendment Analysis, the Eleventh Circuit has held that a defendant’s “decryption and production...
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AccessData FTK 4.0: initial impressions
Introduction In this post, I will provide some initial impressions and findings. I do not endeavor to write a white paper, or to employ an industry standard, scientific methodology to evaluating the...
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Dealing with Data Encryption in Criminal Cases
Introduction Over the last several years, I’ve posted a handful of short blog entries about the topic of compelling a criminal defendant to surrender a passphrase to an encrypted volume or hard-drive....
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