Computer forensics

Computer forensics has been around for a while, but is fast becoming a specialized and accepted (in a court of law) investigative technique with its own tools and legal precedents that validate the discipline. It is a computing profession dedicated to finding the truth. That sounds very altruistic, but any good forensics person with any kind of ethics does only that: finds the truth. It is not in our domain to assign guilt or innocence but rather to find facts in the form of electronic evidence that can be presented in a coherent way so that others may weigh that evidence and then assign guilt or innocence where appropriate.