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You'd be surprised. I've worked with forensic law enforcement in the past, and they were equipped to clone drives quickly and easily. The idea is to create a cl
by Skroob 15y ago
You'd be surprised. I've worked with forensic law enforcement in the past, and they were equipped to clone drives quickly and easily. The idea is to create a clean image of the drive that they can use for evidence, and they don't boot the machine so if there's any trapdoors or whatever they won't hit them. And this was a local police force over 5 years ago, I can't imagine what the FBI would be capable of these days.
- m0nastic 15y agoThe FBI has the capacity to clone drives quickly, absolutely (although amusingly, the process is actually slower now than it was then, as drives are larger). However, field cloning is absolutely not the desired procedure to use (for a lot of reasons). You only do field cloning if you are either: 1) Under a time crunch, or 2) Don't want the target to know that the clone has occurred. If at all possible, you just take the equipment and process it in the lab. I've done about 2 dozen of these for the FBI. We did field-cloning maybe three times.
- amorphid 15y agoSome should build a hard drive that logs being powered up and powered down!