Issues Arising in Forensic Computer Examinations

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Issues Arising in Forensic Computer Examinations. Mike Dickson Forensic Analyst SCDEA e-Crime. Data Capacity. 1 kilobyte = 1000 characters. 1 megabyte = 1 million characters or 500 sheets of paper (about 5 cm tall). 1 gigabyte = 1 billion characters - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Issues Arising in Forensic Computer Examinations

Mike DicksonForensic AnalystSCDEA e-Crime

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Data Capacity

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1 kilobyte

= 1000

characters

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1 megabyte

= 1 million

characters

or 500

sheets of

paper (about

5 cm tall)

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1 gigabyte = 1 billion charactersor a pile of paper 50 metres tall

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400 gigabytes is about averageThat’s 20km of paper

Or 2 ½ Mount Everests

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The biggest hard drive commercially available today is2 terabytes, or 2 trillion characters

That’s two million packets of A4paper which would reach….

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…about 100 kilometers

Approx here to Stirling

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An average person can readthrough about 220 words perminute…

…which is about a

kilobyte of data

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So therefore…

Reading two terabytes of data would take the average person

2 x 1000 x 1000 x 1000 minutes

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Also known as 3800 years

The Nordic Bronze age started3800 years ago

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Hitachi have announced 4Tb drives for 2011

That’s 200km of paper

=

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Analyst and Investigator

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Encryption

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Identifying Devices

USB Phone (12Gb)

USB Watch (2Gb)

USB Subbuteo (22-32Gb)

USB Rubber Duck (2Gb)

USB Vibrator (128kb)

USB Teddy Bear (4Gb)

USB Teddy Bear (4Gb)

BMW M5 (8Gb)

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Virtual Computers or ‘The Cloud’

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Mike DicksonForensic Analyst

SCDEA e-Crime0131-335-6033

michael.dickson@scdea.pnn.police.uk

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