Computer Forensics In Crime Investigation--A Study Of Computer Evidence

The computer crime brought very bad social influence and damage. It directly endangers the normal order of politics, economy, and culture. Because of the lagging behind of judiciary and the lack of the safe consciousness, very few computer crimes can to be investigated and charged. Because of the difficulty in taking the evidence, a lot of cases are abandoned because of the evidence lack. If the computer forensics is adopted to organize the manpower to investigate and take the evidence, and to search for confirmation and precede indictment, this crime can be from the root eradicated completely. As the safe situation of network is rigorous, it is of great significance to take the evidence through computer.The computer forensics primarily works around electronics evidence and its purpose is to reflect the offender's crime in the computer and related equipments and make it become the valid litigation evidence and then offer to the law court. Similar to traditional evidence, the computer evidence must be: Authentic, accurate, complete, in accordance with law, and accept able to law court. The computer evidence still has differences from traditional evidence. Its precision and vulnerability affect its weight. Computer forensics demands that problem concerned with computer crime investigation should be treated from the aspects of law and technique: Make the most use of and develop the current data obtaining technique and data-analyzing technique, discover data related to computer crime, ensure and relativity between fact and evidence; Quicken law developments, establishment computer evidence' s law position; Obtain the evidence according to the legal procedure, and insure the legitimacy of evidence obtaining; Establish the accurate storing system both from management and from technique, enhancing the investigation and judgment of computer evidence, and ensuring the dependability of computer evidence. In this way, computer evidence can certainly increase its weight and validly attack the computer crime.