In 2006 there was a rape case called, The Lamar Owens case. This happened in a Military General Court Martial in the Washington Naval Yard. The defendant, Owens, was accused of raping a midshipman in her room at the Naval Academy. This is a charge that holds a heavy penalty if the accused is found guilty. The price is life in prison. This was a her word against his case because the charges were not filed immediately after the incident and there were no witnesses to the crime. Owens made a statement saying that some of the events that happened were done online. This then gave the defense the opportunity to use digital evidence in their case. Scientists from Berkeley were the ones who did the research on digital activity. They stated that “up to 93% of all information never leaves the digital domain. This means that the majority of information is being created, modified and consumed in digital form.” (Gubanov, Y., n.d.)…show more content… Any log files from an instant messenger service used may hold critical evidence as it did in this claim. AOL messenger was the one used by the people in this claim the evidence was the messenger logs. The AppData, Documents and Settings folder, or Program files is where the log history files can be found. The way that the files are found is by going to the windows registry and applications and then analyzing the application files found there. The data is then drawn from them. The correct format is required because there are diverse formats for every source file. There are also different tools that can be used to extract the information. MSN messenger uses XML format, for example. There are quite a few different methods for extracting data. There are also many ways that criminals can make extracting data more difficult for investigators. Some examples of how to slow down this process include:
• You can change the default location in the history
