Vacation photos
Feb 9th, 2007 by Jesper Kråkhede
When doing Computer Forensics it is uninvitable that you sooner or later will come across a computer where a person full life is stored in pictures, letters and so forth. That is the time you realise what is tough in this line of business. It is not finding a way around an encrypted file or reading page after page with agreements or mails. It is seeing the guy, you know have done something bad, on vacation with his kids. Seeing them laugh while you are preparing to bring havoc in their lives.
Lets face it. Many times your investigations means bad things for people. They loose their work, they loose money, they loose their freedom and goes to jail. In the meantime you sit there with there vacation photos.
Before you start out in this line of work make sure you have a contract with a professional speaking partner in case you need it. You never know when you can´t stand to see the pictures more and thats the time you need the support. No one can work with Computer Forensics without getting a bad case or two. If you cannot stomach it, be a professional and hand it over to someone who can.