full-disclosure - Break-in discovery and forensics tools

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Message-ID: <20030423173115.GA3057@eiv.com>
From: smcmahon at eiv.com (Shawn McMahon)
Subject: Break-in discovery and forensics tools

On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 09:18:58AM -0700, Hotmail said:
>  I realize the importance of after incident forensics... What I dont
> understand is logs used in a court for prosecution. Logs are inheritly not
> preservable or physical evidence, it is tamperable from the time the
> external data hits a MAC, if that were the case basicly I could take my logs
> and edit any damn originating ip i choose, send thosse logs to law
> enforcement, and have an innocent person convicted. Logs are nice.. but IMHO
> defeatable in court.

Logs are testimony.  They're no more tamperable than verbal testimony.
It's up to the judge and/or jury to decide what weight to give them.


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