Prior Publisher
The Association of Digital Forensics, Security and Law (ADFSL)
Abstract
Researchers can spend their time reverse engineering, performing reverse analysis, or making substantive contributions to digital forensics science. Although work in all of these areas is important, it is the scientific breakthroughs that are the most critical for addressing the challenges that we face. Reverse Engineering is the traditional bread-and-butter of digital forensics research. Companies like Microsoft and Apple deliver computational artifacts (operating systems, applications and phones) to the commercial market. These artifacts are bought and used by billions. Some have evil intent, and (if society is lucky), the computers end up in the hands of law enforcement. Unfortunately the original vendors rarely provide digital forensics tools that make their systems amenable to analysis by law enforcement. Hence the need for reverse engineering.
Recommended Citation
Garfinkel, Simson
(2011)
"Column: File Cabinet Forensics,"
Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law: Vol. 6
, Article 1.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15394/jdfsl.2011.1103
Available at:
https://commons.erau.edu/jdfsl/vol6/iss4/1
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