Review of Forensic Discovery Posted
Amazon.com just posted my five star review of Forensic Discovery . I read a pre-publication draft of the book which resulted in my quote on the Addison-Wesley site . From the review: "Farmer and Venema do for digital archaeology what Indiana Jones did for historical archaeology. 'Forensic Discovery' unearths hidden treasures in enlightening and entertaining ways, showing how a time-centric approach to computer forensics reveals even the cleverest intruder. I highly recommend reading this book." In the chapter 7 (available online as a .pdf) Farmer and Venema mention the Veeco Nanotheater . Veeco makes products which can scan the surface of disks at nanotechnology scales. They show the image at right, and describe it as "residuals of overwritten information on the sides of magnetic disk tracks." This demonstrates the difficulty of truly "destroying" digital evidence. Forensic Discovery explains the problem this way: "Although memory