Personally I love the lifetime option, and it was a major selling point for me (it is much easier for me to justify a one-time splurge of $200 instead of adding another monthly outlay). What convinced the business-side that that was a good idea?
I am currently taking the first class of the graduate certificate in Computer Forensics at UCF. We don't have a book yet (hasn't been printed), and right now the class is pretty free-form. This is in association with the National Center for Forensic Science. Right now, we are doing all of our work with diskettes, but when the new building is built there will be a lab that has the facilities to work with hard drives.
Basically, in order for anything to be admitted in court you have to have a clear chain of posession and be very sure of your methods. You do all of your work on disk images or clones whenever possible, using MD5 and SHA1 and other ways of proving the clone is identical before proceeding (more confirmation the better).
But, one interesting thing is that people seem to be a bit afraid of digital evidence. Most of the criminal cases apparently result in confessions if you find good enough evidence...
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Personally I love the lifetime option, and it was a major selling point for me (it is much easier for me to justify a one-time splurge of $200 instead of adding another monthly outlay). What convinced the business-side that that was a good idea?
Why not? Look at the wonders they have done to turn around The Matrix Online. Oh...
Basically, in order for anything to be admitted in court you have to have a clear chain of posession and be very sure of your methods. You do all of your work on disk images or clones whenever possible, using MD5 and SHA1 and other ways of proving the clone is identical before proceeding (more confirmation the better).
But, one interesting thing is that people seem to be a bit afraid of digital evidence. Most of the criminal cases apparently result in confessions if you find good enough evidence...