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Many individuals from across the world, of a variety of ages use a computer on a daily basis, either at work or at home. Unfortunately, this increased usage and the widespread availability of the internet has led to a higher number of criminal cases involving computers. Today, the police can analyse computers seized in the course of investigations to access files and crucial information that could help towards their criminal investigations, in a process known as a digital forensic investigation.

Digital forensics, also known as computer or mobile phone forensics, is a science based discipline that aims to aid criminal investigations by uncovering vital information and files within computers. There are independent organisations in the UK that can aid the investigation process; their tailored services can assist the discovery of criminal activities such as, intellectual property theft, money laundering, indecent images, hacking and drug dealing.

In this high-tech world, communication is done 99.999% via electronic gadgetry, which means computers. From personal to corporate communications, from simple messages between employees to complicated ciphers of industrial espionage or financial crime, computers are the vehicles. Thus the best place to find evidence of employee misdemeanor in almost all aspects is to check his computer hard disk. Whether it is a refurbished computer, a used computer or a new computer, traces of what he did using the machine may be analyzed to establish whether he committed malfeasance or not. This field of post facto computer analysis is called computer forensics.

Are you the person in your family that is most interested in piecing together all the information about your ancestors? If so, you will be happy to know that there are many resources that are available to help. Today the use of the Internet for searching many sources is a great tool. The benefits allow you to find records that may have been impossible to find in the past.

Whether you view this as a hobby or are a serious historian, the search for your ancestors is much easier today. Only a few years ago, the only resources you would have had access to were limited. Today there are so many people interested in tracing their roots that the Internet will be a great resource for a lot of the information you are seeking.

Everyone’s so caught up these days in computer forensics and forensic science to solve murder mysteries like those seen on the TV series CSI. But computer forensics is not all murder and police drama. There are far more necessary reasons for those in this particular industry, and a very interesting case has come up recently involving the company Nintendo.

After noticing a recent news article from Australia, I was surprised to find that a US and Japanese based video game company was bringing a law suit forth to an Australian man who violated international and US and Australian copyright laws. After an Australian game store accidentally released the new Super Mario Brothers game for their Wii system six days before Nintendo had scheduled a global release, a 24 year old Australian named James Burt broke through the game’s code and illegally uploaded the game to the internet, allowing thousands to download the game illegally onto their own computers without paying Nintendo any money. This perhaps cost Nintendo millions of dollars.