[ale] cabling and GA

[Chris Fowler]

On Tue, 2010-03-30 at 16:39 -0400, Michael B. Trausch wrote:

> Why would one need such a license to take an image of a hard disk or 
> some other type of media?  That seems to me like the state just grasping 
> for reasons to put money in its pocket.  I mean, anyone can take a 
> precise, bit-for-bit backup of a hard disk drive using dd, if they have 
> the hardware to move the bits to.  I would think that if you were 
> *interpreting* data for the court, though, that you would then _maybe_ 
> need a license or credential of some sort that says you know what you're 
> doing, though thankfully it's typically pretty easy to figure out 
> definitively what happened how, since most users never clean up when 
> they do things because they think that deleting a file is great 
> security, for some reason.

If you were being charged with a crime then your defense is going to do
anything possible to discredit evidence.