Re: Computer Forensics Faces Private Eye Competition

[scott <redhowlingwolves () bellsouth net>]

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That's a bummer for most companies doing business in SC.

Then again,just doing business in SC is already a bummer.Must be some
PIs in the House and Senate there,huh.

MHO,
Scott


Paul Ferguson wrote:
> Via Baseline.
>
> [snip]
>
> 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.
>
> [snip]
>
> More: http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,1540,2242720,00.asp
>
> - ferg

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Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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