The book I read to research this post was Insider’s Guide To Technology Assisted Research by Ernst & Young which is a very good book that I bought from kindle. This book is mainly reviewing the many messages and e-mails on various devices for legal purposes. It is mainly done from the American legal system point of view. It is around 100 pages so is reasonably short. I think this book is written by a company that specializes in this field. In another book I read that the potential use and number of devices needing to be checked is hugely overstretching the resources available. In many items which might disprove or prove a case or even lead to other prosecutions go unchecked. If you just think of the number of e-mails which are on a typical account and the potential cost of checking which if it is only a minor offence someone is accused of it isn’t worth it. In many cases keyword searches are done to keep costs down which as both agree is a good compromise. The methods used in retrieving data unless the defense think something is wrong often aren’t examined in a lot of detail in court. There is also the hassle especially in corporate cases that things like e-mail might need to be translated. If it say french or german the cost of getting a legal person who is fluent in this is relatively low and they are relatively plentiful. A problem comes say if the language is Japanese which is fairly commonly used but a legal translator is harder to find hence more expensive. This is an interesting book and I do recommend. I find digital forensics in general quite interesting although I know a lot of people would find it boring.
