Syindication
“Simple,” open-ness, customization
CNet reports that some students from Edith Cowan University in Australia have created a Linux live CD that creates a data forensics tool that will help police catch the bad guys. That’s cool!I think it’s safe to say that the open nature of the Linux platform definitely appealed to the authors here, especially considering the customizations that they undertook… The application is called “Simple” (Simple Image Preview Live Environment) but trying to do this in the proprietary software world would be anything but!
The operating system has had some features removed so that investigators can view data without affecting the host machine.
“We stripped out a large amount of functionality because we want to maintain the integrity of data collected, so we removed all network support and the ability to write to disk. Also, if for some reason a disk is writeable, the system will halt automatically,” he added.
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