Builds on: Electronic Evidence: Best Practices and Pitfalls
Hashing, Imaging and Verification in Practice
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Lesson 7 (Electronic Evidence: Best Practices and Pitfalls) said: copy the data, hash it, and work on the copy. This unit shows what that means in practice.
Focus: image, hash, verify, record. This unit is general knowledge, not legal advice. It does not replace tool training.
Learning objectives
- Tell a physical image from a logical image and a targeted copy.
- Say what a write-blocker does and where it cannot be used.
- Explain what a matching hash value proves, and what it does not.
- Answer the usual court questions about hash algorithms.
- List what the imaging record must contain.
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