Behind the Badge
If there’s evidence on a computer, the O.C. Regional Computer Forensics Lab is on it
0A former employee of a large company is suspected of downloading the firm’s trade secrets before being laid off. A jilted lover planning to murder her rival uses her PC to search for a gun shop. A network of terrorists plotting an attack communicates by texts and emails. A man suspected of using his smart phone to send and receive child pornography deletes the images to avoid prosecution. These types of cases land on the desks of detectives in the Orange County Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory in Orange. Funded and managed by the FBI, the lab is among 15 nationwide…
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