Electronic crime detection experts are working with police and forensic detectives in a Scottish university to establish new techniques to detect cyber crime, especially CP. “Anybody using a computer leaves a trail, and it’s very hard to cover that trail completely,” says Ian Ferguson of Strathclyde University’s Computer and Information Science department. “We call it ‘leaving footprints in the digital flowerbed’ and the detective work comes in finding the individual signatures – like phrases, structures of sentences, habits of using capitals in certain places. “In e-mail stalking cases these begin to form a pattern, and that pattern is invariably repeated somewhere…
