Thursday, August 03, 2006

Special Report | Computer forensics: The new DNA / GCN, 2006

http://www.gcn.com/print/25_22/41500-1.html
Patience Wait
"DOD lab excavates bits, bytes to dig out information. Within a week of discovering computer equipment in the bombed-out safehouse of slain terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, U.S. and Iraqi forces carried out more than 450 raids targeting followers of al-Qaida’s leader in Iraq. The vital information that led to the military action came from the Defense Department’s growing ability to uncover and comprehend information stored on everything from disk drives and cell phones to personal digital assistants and Global Positioning System equipment." [Forensic Science]