[funsec] Forensics Tech: Austrian Teen's Captor Used Old Computer, Complicates Investigation

[Nick FitzGerald]

David Lodge wrote:

> They are extracting the urine aren't they?  ...

Probably not...

> ...  There are plenty of tools out  
> there on t'Interweb to make exact copies of C64 discs and tapes.

Yes, yes, we all know that, but Encase doesn't support it so it can't 
be done...

Seriously though (yeah -- sad for Funsec, I know), depending on the 
Austrian courts' position on handling, chain-of-custody, admissability, 
etc of digital evidence, they may have problems if the accepted rules 
are sufficiently constrained as to be limited to "contemporary" 
technologies (such as PC- and Apple-, or Windows-, *nix-ish- and Mac
OS-, or IDE-specifics).  It's quite conceivable that this is the real 
source of the problem, but too difficult/dull for the reporter to make 
the focus of the story...

And, because this _is_ Funsec...

> Even I once wrote a disc reader for the C64 many years ago...

...on an HP calculator using a homespun cross-compiler or you're a 
wuss!


Regards,

Nick FitzGerald