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Forensic webwatch: Forensic computing.

R Bouhaidar
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With the rapid and continuous development of information technology, policing faces new challenges. As computer equipments are becoming cheaper and the internet more readily available, computer crime and criminal exploitation is on the increase. Investigating such crimes requires identification, preservation, analysis and presentation of digital evidence, the key elements of forensic computing. This is helped by the fact that Locard's principle is applicable to this branch of science as much as in other areas of forensic science. This webwatch considers the ever evolving area of Forensic Computing.

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R Bouhaidar. 2005. Forensic webwatch: Forensic computing.. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcfm.2005.01.001

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