[ale] [OT] Getting into forensic work

[Jeff Hubbs]

My recollection was that in GA, you needed a private investigator's 
license, whatever that entails. You can imagine that there's going to be 
a barrier to entry there - it can be lucrative work (albeit one that 
entails a lot of waiting around, which, one hopes, is billable) and any 
shmoe with a liveCD can conceivably handle light requirements.

On 7/10/12 12:17 PM, mike at trausch.us wrote:
> I _must_ be misunderstading the requirements of all of this, because I
> simply cannot believe that what I am finding could at all be accurate
> for the things that I want to do.
>
> The reason I am sending this here is because I know that there are
> people here familiar with the process, though I apologize for the mostly
> off-topic nature.  Though if it helps, I plan on doing the work with
> Linux!  :-P
>
> Anyway, I want to have the ability to perform analyses that may be
> court-bound.  My understanding is that in GA, this requires some form of
> licensing.  That's fine, and I'm willing to get a license, but the only
> thing I can find says I need to have a four year degree in criminal
> justice and two years experience as a law enforcement officer or a
> person in charge of things at a company that is so licensed.  Really?
> Even though I already know how to do things like preserve things and
> ensure that they're sound, I can't just pass an exam or something?
>
> Is getting a company bootstrapped for this really that much of an
> ordeal?  Just to be allowed to say "yes, I was able to find data items
> X, Y and Z on drive AA, and this is the procedure used to make it a
> forensically sound process" in a court?
>
> 	--- Mike
>
>
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