Nick served as a police officer in San Jose for six years before being injured in the line of duty. He decided to head east to further his education and attained a Masters of Science degree from Strayer University. He is now an independent security consultant specializing in computer forensics. His job entails both investigating digital evidence as well as giving testimony in a court of law!
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>> My name is Nick Lebucks. I'm a retired police officer. I'm originally from San Jose California. I now live in Friedberg Virginia. I'm mainly concentrating in digital forensics. That's what I studied here [inaudible] was computer security and computer forensics. So I do government contracting, government consulting, and information security and the retrieval of data for litigation and evidence support. Well forensics is a broad body that applies to computers as well as anthropology, medicine, you name it, there's a forensic field for everything. Forensics just means that something will hold up in the court of law. So for computers it says this evidence is electronic and digital usually was obtained by the standards of the court in a pure [inaudible] way and can be used for criminal and civil litigation. I would say most of the job its either collection of evidence, I log, there's a lot of logging lots of evidence that comes in and then once I log things I process, I process usually computer or some kind of hard drive for examination and second [inaudible] is creating, drafting report. So I do this entire examination and then I go ahead and make a long police report or crime report of what I did and I said I opened the computer, I examined the computer, I plugged this cable into this cable, I opened up this software program and I examined for all these types of files and the third thing is testimony in court. A busy day would be a full investigation or multiple investigations of evidence, typing in multiple reports for court later, and then having to go to court to testify based on previous examinations would be the three part busy day. I mean there's two types of cases usually. There's either cases where people aren't trying to hide their tracks and they're cases where people are trying to hide their tracks and usually with child porn investigations these people know what they're doing, they know it's illegal, they know that they can go to prison for a long time if they're caught, and there's a lot of information to these suspects as to hide their tracks, how to hide files, how to make it look like evidence doesn't exist and have to make my job really difficult to find that evidence.
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