Re: Reacting to a server compromise

[Ron DuFresne <dufresne () winternet com>]

On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, David Hayes wrote:

> Our old standby, "dd", is perfectly acceptable for making an image of
> a hard drive to be used in court.  It's even the #1 choice of the FBI,
> and accepted by U.S. federal courts.  From the trial court order on
> admission of evidence in the case of Zacarias Moussaoui (the accused
> 20th hijacker of 9/11):

Interesting, I would have thought that the original was required for the
courts, and that forensics was conducted on the copy.

Thanks,

Ron DuFresne
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OK, so you're a Ph.D.  Just don't touch anything.

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