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Digital "Evidence" is Often Evidence of Nothing

Digital "Evidence" is Often Evidence of Nothing
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Author(s): Michael A. Caloyannides (Mitretek Systems Inc., USA)
Copyright: 2006
Pages: 6
Source title: Digital Crime and Forensic Science in Cyberspace
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Panagiotis Kanellis, Evangelos Kiountouzis, Nicholas Kolokotronis and Drakoulis Martakos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-872-7.ch015
ISBN13: 9781591408727
ISBN10: 1591408725
EISBN13: 9781591408741

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Abstract

Digital data increasingly presented in courts as evidence is mistakenly viewed by judges and juries as inherently unalterable. In fact, digital data can be very easily altered and it can be impossible for this falsification to be detected. A number of common ways are described whereby data in one’s computer can enter without the computer owner’s knowledge, let alone complicity. The same applies to all digital storage media, such as those used in digital cameras, digital “tape” recorders, digital divers’ computers, GPS “navigators”, and all other digital devices in common use today. It is important for judges and juries to be highly skeptical of any claims by prosecution that digital “evidence” proves anything at all.

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