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Setting Them Up for the Fall
I think Sammi is as good as I hope she is. I wonder what sort of spurious trail she left? Just about anyone can tell when a file was added to a computer. Even if there was something there, it could be shown to have been added after the fact of the alleged observation. I nervously and eagerly wait for the outcome.
Portia
I've done some computer
I've done some computer forensics - if you're knowledgeable, you can fudge both the creation and modification dates on a file, at least when you initially place them. Later accesses can change those, of course. That's why the first rule of forensics is 'make a bit level copy of the hard drive'. (Preferably two). You then do your research on the copy, and only refer back to the original in a read-only mode.
As for erasing, any 'secure erase' program will work fine on eliminating files, especially if they're recent. What they do is when you do a secure delete/erase, the program identifies every block/sector on the drive that held any part of the file, then overwrites them repeatedly with different garbage. (zero fills, ones, pseudo-random generated data). It's easy to spot when someone's done a secure scrub on their entire drive - it's less so when someone's only done it to a couple of hundred files, especially if you defragment the hard drive afterwards.
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
I'm also suspecting that Sammi is
as good as she thinks she is. Only concern would be that some areas of the HDD look too clean. Cool if the final step in erasing was to overwrite with random bits of other files on the machine.
Better yet if she could "suggest" that the source computer for the images be examined for porn but doubt that there could be any way the images would retain where they were copied from. Would be funny if Ms Vallence's computer turned out to be the source of the stuff.
If you launched Sammi and Trish against her she wouldn't have a chance.
Best final step is a disk
Best final step is a disk defragment. That moves stuff around like crazy, and is a standard task that any spinning disk drive needs.
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
I continue to love Bike,
I continue to love Bike, Angharad! It's the first thing I look at on BCTS each day.
Kris
{I leave a trail of Kudos as I browse the site. Be careful where you step!}
Naughty, naughty, Mrs.
Naughty, naughty, Mrs. Vallance and Emma. I do believe this accusation is going to blow up big in your faces; and in doing so, I do hope the judge 'throws the book' at you both, or at least as much of it as he can. Don't know if the UK legal system uses a concurrent and/or consecutive sentencing setup, but I do hope it is consecutive so these two 'fine upstanding paragons of self-righteous' bigots can get the max.
Ho boy...
Not a good situation. *sighs*
I wonder how you tie up these twists.
Thanks,
Annette
And now the
wait begins, Whilst i am pretty sure that Sammi is as good as she appears to be, There is always a possibility that something could have escaped Sammi's net, So its good that Jason has handed over the details of Cathys findings about the Vallance's, Its true that by itself its not enough to convict anyone, But as a famous supermarket chain over in the UK keeps reminding us " Every Little Helps....
Kirri