Month: August, 2006

“Forensically Sound Duplicate” (Update)

22 August, 2006 (02:50) | Digital forensics, Forensic tools | No comments

So after the whirl of feedback I’ve received, we’ve moved discussions of this thread from Richard Bejtlich’s blog to a Yahoo! group. The url for the group is: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/forensically_sound/
We now return this blog to it’s regularly scheduled programming…

“Forensically Sound Duplicate”

2 August, 2006 (15:46) | Digital forensics, Forensic tools | No comments

I was reading Craig Ball’s (excellent) presentations on computer forensics for lawyers at (http://www.craigball.com/articles.html). One of the articles mentions a definition for forensically sound duplicate as:

“A ‘forensically-sound’ duplicate of a drive is, first and foremost, one created by a method which does not, in any way, alter any data on the drive being duplicated. [...]