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Today, digital forensics is an important tool in analyzing evidence and solving cases. With everyone in the world only at least a phone or computer, digital forensics has become a major part of investigations. Without digital forensics investigations of the police would become harder.  Digital evidence allows us to check the alibi's of our suspects such as their location and the time they were there using their cellphone's GPS. So without digital forensics the police would have a harder time doing their jobs.

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Sentenced: He was sentence to 10 consecutive years in prison with a minimum of 175 years

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Trial: He pleaded guilty and described the murders in detail.

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A camera spotting him driving away from the scene where he placed the next clue for the police and DNA test

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Digital Evidence used:
Floppy Disc: Dennis Radar sent the police a floppy disc that was trace back to his computer at the church were he worked at. Where the police found

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Motive: Sexual Sadism

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Charge: 10 counts of Murder for the 1st degree

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The time/place: February 25, 2005, at Park City

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The Culprit: Dennis Rader

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Examples of Digital Evidence: Videos, Hard Drives, floppy discs, internet history, emails and phones

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Encryption is the process of encoding information to keep any unauthorize individuals from accessing it .
Encryption is used to protect sensitive electronic files such as emails, files, folders, and entire drives.

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Digital Evidence Preservation techniques:

1. Drive Imaging: is the process of making an archival or backup copy of the entire contents of a hard drive.

2. Hash Values: Is a numeric value of a fixed length that uniquely identifies data.

3. Placing the electronic in a climate control location away from items that could either destroy or alter the evidence.

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Digital chain of custody is the record of preservation of digital evidence from collection from the crime scene that is later presented in court.

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Technical Challenges: differing media formats, encryption, steganography, anti-forensics, live acquisition and analysis and mishandling of evidence Legal challenges: jurisdictional issues, privacy issues and a lack of standardized international legislation.

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Digital forensics: Is the collection and investigation of evidence from the crime scene that involves anything related to electronics