Digital Evidence in the 21st Century?

Prof Bill Buchanan OBE
Nov 2 · 6 min read

In many respects our legal infrastructure has changed little in the past centuries. While it has adopted email, electronic documents and digital evidence, it still generally struggles to move away from the good old traditional methods of lock and key, physical security and wet signatures. While digital forensics has come along as a new area, it is still seen as a bit like black magic, and where it often relies on a single…

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Prof Bill Buchanan OBE

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Professor of Cryptography. Serial innovator. Believer in fairness, justice & freedom. EU Citizen. Auld Reekie native. Old World Breaker. New World Creator.

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