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The Trouble with Timestamps

Traditional digital signature-based time stamps are supposed to indicate a particular sequence of events, and reliably show when a particular digital signature was generated. The trouble is that system-generated time stamps aren't independent of data generation... or even the digital signature generation process itself.>> Read the full article | Forward to a friend

Data Tampering in the News

Teacher Forges Emails, Timestamps

School Superintendent Nate Levenson dismissed Chuck Coughlin, a teacher at Ottoson Middle School, on Aug. 9, after an investigation revealed Coughlin allegedly forged e-mails and an "electronic paper trail".>> Read the full article | Forward to a friend

Legal Focus

The Authenticity Crisis in Real Evidence

The digitization of information marks a "societal sea change". Now, more purely stored and easily manipulated information is pervasive in our society's informational records. All these records -- used to document communications, transactions and the very appearance of reality must be capable of authenticity testing.>> Read the full article | Forward to a friend

Digital Business

Liability Online

The swirl of e-mails, documents and instant messages captures an all-too-accurate record of actions, decisions and thinking that is subject to discovery in civil suits and white-collar crime cases, said defense lawyers at the American Bar Association's annual meeting here last week.>> Read the full article | Forward to a friend

Email Archiving

The Center of Gravity for E-mail Archiving Shifts from IT to the Boardroom

The legal community has discovered that unstructured information in general, and e-mail archives in particular, represent a new source of revenue, leading to a large number of lawsuits in which old e-mails become the key piece of evidence used to confirm charges of corporate wrongdoing. What's more, changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) adopted late in 2006 now require civil litigants to consider electronic evidence as part of the discovery process.
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In This Issue The Trouble with Timestamps Teacher Forges Emails, Timestamps The Authenticity Crisis in Real Evidence Liability Online The Center of Gravity for E-mail Archiving Shifts from IT to the Boardroom	Security Alert The Trouble with Timestamps Traditional digital signature-based time stamps are supposed to indicate a particular sequence of events, and reliably show when a particular digital signature was generated. The trouble is that system-generated time stamps aren't independent of data generation... or even the digital signature generation process itself.>> Read the full article \| Forward to a friend Data Tampering in the News Teacher Forges Emails, Timestamps School Superintendent Nate Levenson dismissed Chuck Coughlin, a teacher at Ottoson Middle School, on Aug. 9, after an investigation revealed Coughlin allegedly forged e-mails and an "electronic paper trail".>> Read the full article \| Forward to a friend Legal Focus The Authenticity Crisis in Real Evidence The digitization of information marks a "societal sea change". Now, more purely stored and easily manipulated information is pervasive in our society's informational records. All these records -- used to document communications, transactions and the very appearance of reality must be capable of authenticity testing.>> Read the full article \| Forward to a friend Digital Business Liability Online The swirl of e-mails, documents and instant messages captures an all-too-accurate record of actions, decisions and thinking that is subject to discovery in civil suits and white-collar crime cases, said defense lawyers at the American Bar Association's annual meeting here last week.>> Read the full article \| Forward to a friend Email Archiving The Center of Gravity for E-mail Archiving Shifts from IT to the Boardroom The legal community has discovered that unstructured information in general, and e-mail archives in particular, represent a new source of revenue, leading to a large number of lawsuits in which old e-mails become the key piece of evidence used to confirm charges of corporate wrongdoing. What's more, changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) adopted late in 2006 now require civil litigants to consider electronic evidence as part of the discovery process. >> Read the full article \| Forward to a friend
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