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FBI: New Computer Forensics Lab For Cybercrime Investigation

Calendar Oct 16, 2002 • User Avatar Anthony Pell
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The FBI is creating a $3 million computer forensics lab in Silicon Valley, using the latest imaging software and high-end computers to sleuth for cyber-clues of child pornography, corruption, murder and more. . . The FBI is creating a $3 million computer forensics lab in Silicon Valley, using the latest imaging software and high-end computers to sleuth for cyber-clues of child pornography, corruption, murder and more.

The 12,000-square-foot Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory, at the foot of the Dumbarton Bridge in Menlo Park, will be available to help detectives from San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara and Alameda counties hunt for digital clues. Investigators can bring seized computers and disks to be searched for incriminating e-mails, encrypted documents and other evidence within hardware or software.

Labs like these are popping up around the country in response to what investigators are saying is an exponentially growing mass of new case evidence to be analyzed.

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