Take a look at this http//www.forensicfocus.com/index.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=6829
Cloud computing would be a good one. I believe Apple's integrating their time capsule with the iCloud, which is an early indicator of how home users are going to store multimedia in a few years.
This is nonsense. Take the advice dished out by Paul and DFICSI.
Under no circumstances should a supervisor be the driver of the student's dissertation. A small part of your marks is related to the selection of an appropriate project by you and your justification of the same.
You are the customer and, assuming you are fulfilling your role in the process, it is the Uni's responsibility to provide you with an appropriately experienced supervisor.
In fact, the truth of the matter is that the following process should apply; You select your dissertation subject, you approach appropriate lecturers to sell your idea to them, if they are suitably interested they will want to supervise you. It is typically only when a student has not taken such initiative that a supervisor is imposed upon the student based upon any slack that exists in the lecturer's timetable and agreed supervision allocation. In that situation, you may end up with any supervisor from the faculty that you belong to. Assuming you belong to a computing faculty, I would expect as a minimum that you would be allocated a supervisor experienced in some sub-discipline of computing science. It is common for lecturers in medical-related matters to belong to (say) the Faculty of Science and I simply cannot understand how you would be allocated a supervisor from a different faculty.
Any insistence that these two disciplines must be clashed together is inappropriate, limiting and, frankly, naff.
If it's masters level I don't think it matters too much if the supervisor has a forensic background. Other areas of computing are okay. You will end up knowing more about the subject than your supervisor due to the time you dedicate researching the area. They are there for general guidance.
When is your dissertation due? If it's September I'd advise you sort a topic out quick, and probably redo a research proposal and have whoever runs the course look at it. Summer is going to fly over.
FWIW, there is an open source electronic medical records system that is available for free. Perhaps you could do some research on unauthorized access (internal or external).
With a growing number of medical offices using it across Europe and the US, I'm sure the need for forensic examination will arise eventually.
Link http//
The NHS has a computer forensics unit, as part of their Counter-Fraud Department, it could be worth contacting them to ask about their work http//
For other inspiration, don't forget that the computer evidence from medical databases was absolutely pivotal in the prosecution of one of the most prolific serial killers ever, Harold Shipman. The work was done by a D/Sgt John Ashley. Try mooching around http//
Edit I agree with Paul about choosing your own topic, but this one could be an interesting and unusual niche.
Just an idea, my sisters boyfriends father writes the code for heart machines how about investigating into how they operate, artefacts they create, data stored, how to check if anything changed etc?
I'd focus on investigations initiated for the patient's interest, e.g. how can CF reveal harmful malfunctions of medical equipment. Otherwise, the examination of artefacts from medical devices is a legal minefield. Most thoughts about it tend to have little practical value.
One additional thing you could write about is the possible impact of acquisition on uptime vs the need to use the hardware to save lives and what measures/routines that could be used to minimise that impact.