What it’s like to be a computer forensics specialist

25th May 202013th September 2006 by Forensic Focus

During his law enforcement days Harry Megerian got his hands on a lot of IT gear – by brute force. “We probably did a raid once a week or once every two weeks,” says Megerian, a former computer forensics specialist with the U.S. Treasury Department. “I would walk away with five computers, on average.” These days Megerian still scours computers for evidence, but he does it on a consultative basis…

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Boris Johnson image - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jan/10/spot-the-difference-boris-johnson-appears-scrubbed-from-photo-posted-by-grant-shapps

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Midjourney - https://www.midjourney.org/

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Group photo with no blinking - https://www.countrylife.co.uk/comment-opinion/curious-questions-group-photo-179102

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