scholarly journals Digital Forensic Science

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Forensic Science ◽  
Digital Forensic

scholarly journals Digital Forensic Science: A Manifesto

2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin S Olivier
Keyword(s):  
Forensic Science ◽  
Forensic Sciences ◽  
Digital Forensic ◽  
Forensic Examination ◽  
The Family

Forensic examination of evidence holds the promise of making claims about the truth of certain propositions with the inherent accuracy and reliability that characterises scientific endeavours. The propositions may relate to the artefacts examined or related artefacts. The nature of propositions about which claims can be made depend on the extent to which given propositions fall within the ambit of scientific knowledge and on the extent to which the examined evidence is suitable for the application of established science. A continuing series of incidents illustrate that in many forensic disciplines that promise is not met — often because some branch of forensic science happen to not being scientific at all. In fact, serious assessments of forensic science have shown that many (if not most) branches of forensic science are not scientifically valid. Digital forensic science is one of the newest members of the family of forensic sciences. A number of reasons for concern exist that it is following in the footsteps of its more established footsteps and repeating many of the mistakes of those other branches of forensic science. This viewpoint is written in the form of a manifesto that is situated in the current discourse about digital forensic science and practice. If challenges the current developments in digital forensic science by positing a number of demands that digital forensic science have to meet to be deemed scientific. The demands are posited as necessary, but not sufficient to ensure that digital forensic science uses science to contribute to justice. Appropriate responses to the manifesto is a change in digital forensic developments or an informed debate about the issues raised in the manifesto.

Disconnects of Specialized Mobile Digital Forensics within the Generalized Field of Digital Forensic Science

2020 ◽  
pp. 325-328
Author(s):  
Gregory H. Carlton ◽  
Gary C. Kessler
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Forensic Science ◽  
Digital Forensics ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Digital Devices ◽  
Digital Forensic

The study and practice of forensic science comprises many distinct areas that range from behavioral to biological to physical and to digital matters, and in each area forensic science is utilized to obtain evidence that will be admissible within the legal framework. This article focuses on inconsistencies within the accepted methodology of digital forensics when comparing the current best practices of mobile digital devices and traditional computer devices. Here the authors raise the awareness of this disconnect in methodology, and they posit that some specific tasks within the traditional best practices of digital forensic science are artifacts of ritual rather than based on scientific requirements.

Digital forensic science approach by file recovery research

2016 ◽  
Vol 74 (8) ◽  
pp. 3704-3725 ◽  
Author(s):  
WooYeon Jo ◽  
Hyunsoo Chang ◽  
Taeshik Shon
Keyword(s):  
Forensic Science ◽  
Digital Forensic ◽  
File Recovery ◽  
Science Approach

scholarly journals Anti-forensics: Furthering digital forensic science through a new extended, granular taxonomy

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. S66-S75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Conlan ◽  
Ibrahim Baggili ◽  
Frank Breitinger
Keyword(s):  
Forensic Science ◽  
Digital Forensic

Disconnects of Specialized Mobile Digital Forensics within the Generalized Field of Digital Forensic Science

2020 ◽  
pp. 593-596
Author(s):  
Gregory H. Carlton ◽  
Gary C. Kessler
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Forensic Science ◽  
Digital Forensics ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Digital Devices ◽  
Digital Forensic

The study and practice of forensic science comprises many distinct areas that range from behavioral to biological to physical and to digital matters, and in each area forensic science is utilized to obtain evidence that will be admissible within the legal framework. This article focuses on inconsistencies within the accepted methodology of digital forensics when comparing the current best practices of mobile digital devices and traditional computer devices. Here the authors raise the awareness of this disconnect in methodology, and they posit that some specific tasks within the traditional best practices of digital forensic science are artifacts of ritual rather than based on scientific requirements.

scholarly journals On Complex Crimes and Digital Forensics

2014 ◽  
pp. 230-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin S. Olivier
Keyword(s):  
Forensic Science ◽  
Digital Forensics ◽  
Scientific Basis ◽  
Error Rates ◽  
Decision Problems ◽  
Complexity Classes ◽  
Demarcation Criterion ◽  
Digital Forensic ◽  
Truth Claims ◽  
Investigative Technique

Science provides the basis for truth claims in forensics. Very little research has been done to explore the scientific basis of digital forensics. The work that has been done vary widely in what they propose; in most cases it is unclear how the philosophical remarks about such forensic science apply to digital forensics practice, or that the practical suggestions are a sufficient basis to claim that practice based on them is scientific. This chapter provides an initial exploration of the potential of decision problems from the field of algorithmics to form this scientific basis. There is no doubt that decision problems operate in the scientific domain and decision problems look similar to hypotheses to be of immediate practical use. The chapter suggests that, if decision problems are used in this manner, it is clear that current digital forensics have only scratched the surface of what is possible. Probabilistic complexity classes, for example, offer interesting possibilities for performing complex tests in relatively short times, with known error rates. Using decision problems as a demarcation criterion makes it possible to distinguish between digital forensic science (or simply digital forensics) and digital forensic craft, which should be called digital investigative technique or some other suitable term that does not imply that its use leads to scientific truths.

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