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Award Information
Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2007, $474,943)
This project will develop an extensible Macintosh Evidence Gathering and Analysis tool suite for investigators to assess and collect data on dual-boot Mac systems, and to gather and analyze forensically-relevant data specific to Mac OS X. MEGA will serve law enforcement and NIJ by allowing an investigator to quickly assess the operating systems installed on a Mac OS X disk image or machine, including the last boot time and other information for each, in a forensically-sound manner. ca/ncf
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