Computer Forensics Faces Private Eye Competition

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via Baseline.

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The Internet is boundless and cybercrime scenes stretch from personal
desktops across the fiber networks that circle the globe. Digital forensic
investigators like Harold Phipps, vice president of industry relations at
Norcross Group in Norcross, Ga., routinely slip across conventional
geographic jurisdictions in pursuit of digital evidence and wrongdoers.

Lawmakers across the Savannah River in Columbia, S.C., have different
ideas, however. Under pending legislation in South Carolina, digital
forensic evidence gathered for use in a court in that state must be
collected by a person with a PI license or through a PI licensed agency.

If the law passes, the highly specialized task of probing deep into
computer hard drives, network and server logs for telltale signs of hacking
and data theft would land in the hands of the same people who advertise in
the Yellow Pages for surveillance on cheating spouses, workers'
compensation fraud and missing persons. Otherwise, digital evidence
collected by unlicensed practitioners could be excluded from criminal and
civil court cases. Worse yet, those caught practicing without a license
could face criminal prosecution.

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More:
http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,1540,2242720,00.asp

- - ferg

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