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The process of investigating digital evidence requires the application of skills and software necessary for gathering information. One should be competent in the use of various forensic tools which are needed for the analysis process. Upon examination of the outlook file, there was little information regarding the owner of the machine that was used in sharing of the photos. Therefore, it is crucial to examine and analyze available data to detect the hidden identity of the user (Jones, 2005).

The archives indicate over 2,000 emails, implying that the account had been in use for a while. Looking at the number of deleted messages, which is 618, raises cause for alarm since it is an indication that the archive was used for dubious purposes.

Using the find tool in Microsoft Outlook indicates that emails, such as the one under the subject "Your information," use the word “photos” five times. This is a clear indication that the user of this email might be the suspect in trying to sell photos to the media. The emails also show a constant use of the word "media," for instance, the email with the subject "Get into action" uses the word three times (Meyers & Rogers, 2015).

The subject "Low prices" in one of the emails also shows that there was a business activity that was taking place which gives a hint on the probability of photo selling to the media. The email under the same subject contains the word "photo" four times.

The archive also has grammatical errors, such as lack of punctuation marks, which show that the message was to be encoded by a particular person, without the third party understanding it.

The exercise was, therefore, successful whereby the user was trying to give information to the state. Punctuation mistakes and repetition of some words show that there is a need for special software for decoding the texts and getting the hidden messages in them.

References

Jones, R. (2005). Internet Forensics: Using Digital Evidence to Solve Computer Crime. " O'Reilly Media, Inc.".

Meyers, M., & Rogers, M. (2015). Digital forensics: Meeting the challenges of scientific evidence. Advances in Digital Forensics, 43-50.

Meyers, M., & Rogers, M. (2005). Digital forensics: Meeting the challenges of scientific evidence. Advances in Digital Forensics, 43-50.