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Forensics with dd

25th May 202012th February 2009 by surfandwork

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=27203&seqNum=3

This chapter is from the book SANS GIAC Certification: Security Essentials Toolkit (GSEC)

Step-by-step instruction on how to image a hard drive with Linux’s dd program.

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