Description

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A useful guide to optical discs for the forensic professional or anyone that deals with optical media. Focus is on specifics that will insure proper handling and processing of discs to assure against loss of data and potential evidence. The author has been working with optical media since 1994 and is the author of a number of software products for writing optical media, recovering data from optical media and forensic examination of optical media. This is the second edition of this book and contains updated information and more focus on Blu-ray media.

About the Author

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Mr. Crowley formed the software company named InfinaDyne in 1996 and began working full time there in 2001. In 1997 the first CD data recovery product available was released and was followed in 2000 with the first product specifically addressing the needs of forensic examiners when examining CDs and DVDs. A computer professional, with over 25 years experience in programming computers of all types producing commercial products for embedded systems, mainframe and PC's. Additionally, Mr. Crowley has authored consumer software games including the ColecoVision version of the game Gyruss, James Bond, Up N' Down and the Atari 2600 game Super Cobra. These games are available on the Internet. Since 1994, Mr. Crowley has focused on PC and embedded system software development, specifically related to CD and DVD technology. This has included CD recording, accessing CD-ROM data for PC and Playstation games and in-vehicle navigation systems. Mr. Crowley is still actively developing software for InfinaDyne as well as teaching classes on CD and DVD examination.