Up to this point, we have concentrated in the book on the technical issues: on how computers work and their construction; on how information is stored; and, in particular, on how and where information can be hidden or inadvertently left on hard disk drives. This technical understanding gives us both the knowledge and the confidence that will enable us to find information of evidential value from a PC. However, unless we carry out the investigative processes in wayswhich guarantee the integrity of that evidence, it is unlikely to be admissible in court. Thus we now need to concern ourselves with perhaps the most important part of all: the processes that we need to carry out and the practices that we need to observe in order to extract information from PCs and present it as admissible evidence in court.
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(2007). The Treatment of PCs. In: Forensic Computing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-732-9_7
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