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An employee of a high tech company alters company documents and sells the doctored materials to another country. He deletes all related documents from the company's computer. |
A bombing suspect stores his ransom note, bomb-building instructions, and pictures of himself building a bomb on his computer, then later deletes them. |
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A parent involved in a nasty divorce deletes pornographic pictures of herself from her home computer. |
What do these three people have in common? |
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Each had a computer from which he/she "deleted" incriminating evidence. Each of these computers was later subjected to computer forensic analysis and yielded valuable information that helped win a court case.
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