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WHATSHOULD YOU KNOW ABOUT DIGITAL FORENSICS
techniques, as well as how they fit into the overall scheme of a digital forensics inves-
tigation. ere are commercially available tools as well as open source. Some tools
are very specialized and focus on doing one particular thing well, whereas other tools
attempt to address a much broader perspective. ere is often a leapfrog situation
occurring where a new version of a particular tool surpasses its competitors. A short
time later a competitor may introduce a new version and it becomes the leader until
the next leapfrog situation. For that reason, I will not try to rank particular tools and
technologies or provide detailed instructions on how to perform a specific operation
with a tool. However, ...