Tectonic: Cyber Sleuths Using Open Source to Track Criminals

“The Cybercrime Unit of the South African Police Services is
increasingly using open source software in its pursuit of online
and computer-using criminals. Speaking at the ForgeAhead eSecurity
conference yesterday Beaunard Grobler, commander of the cybercrime
unit, said the unit was increasingly using open source software in
its work rooting out coriminals. ‘We use, for example, a Knoppix
Live CD configured with special tools to find and isolate child
pornography. This way we can search for the material in just a few
minutes… and still preserve the integrity of the original
evidence,’ said Grobler…”

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