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Peter Wilson
"Former policeman turns digi-sleuth to combat the rise in computer crime -- everything from criminal to civil cases, and labour relations to intellectual property. If you think a computer contains evidence of a crime, Victoria-based digital forensics expert Francis Graf has one strong and simple piece of advice: "Step away from the keyboard." If you insist on just taking a quick look at a hard drive's contents before calling in the professionals, your over-eager amateur curiosity could destroy evidence in an instant. With each mouseclick or tap on the keyboard files can be altered and made useless to an investigation. In fact, the mere act of booting up a Windows XP machine can change more than 800 files -- one or more of which might be critical to an investigation." [4 pages]
