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The data on the drives and the cameras are evidence in an ongoing criminal investigation. Law enforcement needs to establish and maintain a chain of custody of
by sweis 16y ago
The data on the drives and the cameras are evidence in an ongoing criminal investigation. Law enforcement needs to establish and maintain a chain of custody of that evidence, and ensure that it's not tampered with.
They will likely pull the physical drives from those computers, image them with special-purpose hardware, then keep the original drives in secure storage until the case is resolved.
It's not just a matter of copying over a few files. They may need to look at data remanence that aren't visible to the file system.
- jonknee 16y agoSo take the drives or memory cards and return them as soon as full copies have been made, it just seems nuts to take a guy's entire camera when the photographic evidence they want was quite literally seen by millions of people. From what I've heard siezed evidence is often not returned for years (which in the case of technology you use daily means it's worthless when you get it back). Depriving someone of their way to make a living is a very significant power and shouldn't be taken lightly.