IT Security

Paper Summary:

This paper explains that David Lang's article "A Graphic Picture of Crime" (1) paints an overall benign portrait of law enforcement zealously protecting user privacy and safety and (2) demonstrates how an apparently invisible crime can be rendered visible through the use of technology as both the law and law enforcement attempt to stay one step ahead of potential hackers. The author points out that the article stresses that the most important step is to ensure that network logging devices are turned on, even though these devices use disk space and processor time because, if they are turned off, investigations can become impossible. The paper stresses that, when the hacker's identity can be hidden with technological devises especially though uniquely permeable wireless sources, investigators must possess similar tools to be able to penetrate these shields.

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"Later, after Frank is 'captured' and the investigators can obtain a warrant search the working memory of the alleged offender's computer, the random access memory (RAM) or primary storage area where calculations and data manipulation occur. The forensic examiners are most concerned with the section of slack space known as RAM slack, swap files, and deleted information from slack space and swap files. Examiners can thus create a timeline and confirm that Frank downloaded and decrypted the instructions from the Internet before using stenography software to hide his progress."

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