CD and DVD Forensics
Walking readers through all facets of handling, examining, and processing CD and DVD evidence for computer forensics, this how-to book provides tools to open CDs and DVDs in an effort to identify evidence of a crime.
TABLE OF CONTENTS CD and DVD Forensics
Glossary
- . directory
- This is the name given to a directory for HSG, ISO 9660 and Joliet file systems to reference the current directory.
- .. directory
- This is the name given to a directory for HSG, ISO 9660 and Joliet file systems to reference the previous directory.
- !00
- A special construction used with the search in the Sector Display tool in CD/DVD Inspector. This literally means to search for not 00 or searching for any byte that is not binary zero.
- 1/4 wave plate
- Part of the optical assembly on the sled for reading CDs or DVDs. Quarter wave plate is used to turn plane-polarized light into circularly polarized light and vice versa.
- ASCII
- The American Standard Code for Information Interchange defines the code assignments for text in nearly all computers today. It was first defined in 1967. ASCII defines code positions 0-127.
- 8-bit ASCII character set
- Defines the extended set of code definitions for all values from 0-255 which can be represented by 8 bits. This is technically an extension of the definition of ASCII which only requires 7 bits. All current computers use the 8-bit extended form of ASCII today.
- 8-bit bytes
- A byte is the fundamental unit of storage in current computers. It is made up of 8 bits and can take on any value from 0 to 255.
- 8-bit 1 MHz microprocessors
- When CD audio discs were new the state of the art at the time consisted of large mainframe...
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