BBC 'vague' reporting again!

[Peter Sommer]

Casper.Dik@Sun.COM wrote:
>   
> If the police can install a Trojan over the internet then, surely,
> anyone can?  "I thank the prosecution for proofing that my system
> could be hacked."
>
>   
This is quite a common defence in cases involving computer evidence.  But the trojan leaves usually a trace.  If such a defence is raised,  the police investigator will "mount" a copy of the computer and set it up so that he can run a series of A-V signature library scans covering both the live data and recently deleted material.   

This is usually enough to knock the Trojan Defence, as it is known, into touch.   However the concept of a self-deleting trojan was accepted by a jury at Southwark Crown Court in 2003 in respect of Aaron Caffrey.


Peter Sommer