Digital Forensics in the Criminal Justice System

Assignment #4

• No directly quoted material may be used in this project paper.
• Resources should be summarized or paraphrased with appropriate in-text and Resource page

For the purpose of this assignment, imagine that you work for a company that produces an F-16 unmanned drone for the military (like the one that is shown in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvrq0T8OX7E&t=7s) that will be used to photograph different locations it is flying over. Because you are new to the company, you have been tasked to explain in writing to the vice-president of your division what consideration should be given to the following issues:

1. What potential crimes would impact the integrity of the data stored within the drone, or in other storage locations connected to drone activity?
2. What would be the most advantageous way to extract data that is considered evidence of those crimes listed in question #1?
3. What digital tools could you use to help search for suspicious data in crimes, or to hack into the data captured by the drone?
4. Explain in detail how illegally obtaining data created by the drone could affect national security, and the threats posed.

Format Requirements

• Paper must be double spaced, 11 or 12 pt font and 1” margins all around.
• All APA 7^th edition format requirements must be followed (cover page, in text citations, reference page). Refer to APA/UMGC – learning resources found in the content page of this course.
• You must have resources to support your thoughts/opinions/information.  These must be cited both in text as well as at the end of the document. Your paper should not contain direct quotes, sourced material must be paraphrased.