Battling Anti-Forensics: Beating the U3 Stick
Thijs Bosschert · Journal of Digital Forensic Practice · 2007
With the growing knowledge of digital forensics there is also a growing knowledge in the field of anti-forensics. More software and products see the light each day, which can make digital forensic investigations more difficult to do. One new product in the world of anti-forensics is a USB stick, which can be used to take your favorite programs and files with you on the road. You can use them on any computer and leave no traces of what you have been doing on the computer. Besides being useful for a lot of people, the features of this stick can also be abused. Offences like hacking, fraud, spamming, and the like could be harder to investigate if no traces of the offense are to be found on the computer because one of these USB sticks has been used. This article is about the U3 USB stick; it offers you the opportunity to travel with your files and programs, but does it indeed leave no traces?