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Michael Tanji
"Dr. Simson Garfinkel has recognized many of the shortcomings with the traditional method of computer forensics. Garfinkel purchases random hard drives that he knows nothing about and, using a process called 'cross drive analysis,' evaluates the data found on each drive. He then works his way backwards to identify what was being done with the drive, and attempts to identify who previously owed it. Drs. Roussev and Richard at the Department of Computer Science at the University of New Orleans have been conducting research designed to overcome the computing performance wall that traditional single-computer approaches take. By distributing computing tasks among many processors in a cluster supercomputer the two have demonstrated that common forensics tasks that could take hours instead can be done in minutes or seconds."
