Category: digital forensics
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Gaining Information in a Divorce Illegally
Apps regularly pop up in divorce cases, experts say. Over 80% of U.S. divorce attorneys say they’ve seen a rise in the number of cases using social networking, according to the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML) Sometimes it’s not the social networking sites themselves, but how they are accessed to gain information. With that…
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Knowing the Unknown is a Valuable Tool
It isn’t easy to learn the truth and sometimes the truth isn’t easy on us either. , clears the path of misconceptions, intuitions and gossip and focuses on facts. Sometimes the facts do not change the situation, and then there are times the facts create clarity and we see through all the haze and come…
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I’d Like to Phone a Friend
Friends can be a neighbor, a kid you grew up with since grade school, a co-worker, a boss and your spouse. Nobody ever thinks that a private investigator could be a friend, but in many of our cases that we work, in the end, we have acted on the same level as a friendship. We…
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My Husband is in Love with an Avatar
An avatar is an icon or figure representing a particular person in computer games, Internet forums, etc. and that is exactly how some Client’s relationships end. The computer is a gateway to be whatever you want to be, to represent yourself in a manner you could never do face to face. It’s a make believe…
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No One is Ever Going to Hear My Conversations, Or are They?
Social Media: There are so many ways to communicate with social media, but if you break it down, your communication is either by word of mouth or the written word (picture). When you verbally communicate, your message is delivered and heard, then responded to or ignored, but you know right then whether your point was…
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They Thought They Permanently Deleted Files From Their Computer
Before writing this blog, I did some research on what computer users perceive when they delete a file from their computer. Instructions on how to delete. When you delete a file, it’s usually moved to the Recycle Bin so that you can restore the file later if necessary. For information about recovering a file, see Recover…
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Dating through Social Media
In life it isn’t easy meeting the right person, the woman/man of your dreams in a chance meeting. The one individual in the whole world that you feel completes you, gets you, loves you, and puts you above everything else. The last face you see before you go to bed at night and the last…
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Teenagers and Cell Phones
Here at , we pay attention. We listen and learn and share our expertise and case example outcomes with our Clients. It usually starts out like “I bet you haven’t heard this before” and in most cases we have. What we haven’t heard are the thought patterns and real life situations with a teenager. Therefore,…
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Discovery, Depositions and Findings
We had a Client, James who started and built a booming business with his longtime friend, Bill. Bill was outgoing, charismatic while James was more laid back and book smart, while both had the desire and knowledge to start a company. For years, growing up, through high school and college, they knew they wanted to…
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Investments aren’t always Investments
We have all thought “What would have happened….if”, and never gave it a second thought. But in our business, we never wonder “what would have happened” we think “what did happen”. We had a Client whose best friend recommended an unusual investment opportunity to her. She had dabbled in gold dust outside of the US,…