[ale] [OT] Getting into forensic work

[mike at trausch.us]

I _must_ be misunderstading the requirements of all of this, because I
simply cannot believe that what I am finding could at all be accurate
for the things that I want to do.

The reason I am sending this here is because I know that there are
people here familiar with the process, though I apologize for the mostly
off-topic nature.  Though if it helps, I plan on doing the work with
Linux!  :-P

Anyway, I want to have the ability to perform analyses that may be
court-bound.  My understanding is that in GA, this requires some form of
licensing.  That's fine, and I'm willing to get a license, but the only
thing I can find says I need to have a four year degree in criminal
justice and two years experience as a law enforcement officer or a
person in charge of things at a company that is so licensed.  Really?
Even though I already know how to do things like preserve things and
ensure that they're sound, I can't just pass an exam or something?

Is getting a company bootstrapped for this really that much of an
ordeal?  Just to be allowed to say "yes, I was able to find data items
X, Y and Z on drive AA, and this is the procedure used to make it a
forensically sound process" in a court?

	--- Mike

-- 
A man who reasons deliberately, manages it better after studying Logic
than he could before, if he is sincere about it and has common sense.
                                   --- Carveth Read, “Logic”


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