Police Taking a Byte Out of Technology Crime
Bought with a grant of $2,500 from the Cable Road Wal-Mart in Lima, Ohio, the tera server is helping out the city’s Police Department’s technology Crimes Unit. The server stores vast information files obtained as evidence and keeps them on a network to be accessed by law officials and prosecutors in a region that spans eight counties.
When police acquire the hard drive of a suspected online predator, or an individual dealing in child pornography, the complete hard drive can be stored on the new server. It takes 1,000 GB to equal one terabyte, and a typical laptop might have a hard drive of 100 GB. The new server will also enable police to share files.
If authorities capture an individual partaking in child pornography, for instance, they can usually trace, via computer forensics, other involved individuals. Lima launched its computer forensics lab five years ago with the Forensic Recovery Evidence Device (FRED).
Another computer, the Forensic Recovery Analysis Network Computer (FRANC), was added later.
Abstracted by the National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center (NLECTC) from the Lima News (OH), (10/25/06); Rutz, Heather.
