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Digital Forensics for Legal Professionals
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Digital Forensics for Legal Professionals

by Larry Daniel, Lars Daniel
October 2011
Intermediate to advanced
368 pages
9h 15m
English
Syngress
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Chapter 34. E-mail Evidence

Information in this chapter:

• E-mail as evidence
• E-mail storage and access: Where is it?
• Web mail
E-mail is probably one of the most prolific forms of evidence available today. It seems that everyone has an e-mail account, from children to octogenarians. With the availability of free e-mail accounts that can be set up in a matter of minutes, the number of e-mail accounts exploded in the late 1990s.
This chapter examines e-mail as evidence and how and where it is stored. Also in this chapter are some case studies of e-mail used as evidence in actual criminal and civil cases.
Keywords
E-mail, web-based e-mail, e-mail storage, free e-mail accounts, recovering e-mail.

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ISBN: 9781597496438