by admin-jon | Oct 5, 2012 | Blog, Collection, Electronic Discovery Collection, ESI Collection, ESI Software, Legal Hold, Metadata, Preservation, Software
What is multi-threaded copying and why is it important? When a large number of computer files need to be copied from their current location to a network or external hard drive, the process could take many hours or even days. For example during a civil litigation case,...
by admin-jon | Nov 21, 2008 | Blog, Collection, Computer Investigations, Data Recovery, File Recovery, Metadata, Software, Tips & Tricks
Copying corporate data and using it at a competing company (intellectual property/corporate asset theft) is a common and serious concern for companies and their legal counsel. When employees leave companies, there are often questions about the security of the...
by admin-jon | Sep 16, 2008 | Blog, Computer Investigations, Metadata
One of the common requests we receive is to help a client determine when a document was created, or if it existed at a specific date and time, and when it was last modified. For example, an employment dispute may involve one of the following circumstances: A memo was...
by admin-jon | Aug 13, 2008 | Blog, Metadata, Preservation, Tips & Tricks
The terms, ‘file timestamps’ and ‘file metadata’ are often used interchangeably, however, they can have two completely different meanings. I trust the following will help clarify the differences. 1) There are two separate ‘timestamps’ for office documents and several...
by admin-jon | Aug 5, 2008 | Blog, Metadata, Software
Many are familiar with Dennis Rader, who became known as the BTK Killer or the BTK Strangler. Ten victims were identified from 1974 through 1991 as having been murdered by Dennis. During this time frame, Dennis provided details related to the murders in letters that...