Abstract
This chapter demonstrates the full capabilities of open source forensics tools. One can actually perform a complete investigation using solely open source tools. While digital forensics techniques are used in more contexts than just criminal investigations, the principles and procedures are more or less the same no matter the investigation. Digital forensic examinations use computer-generated data as their source. The goal of any given forensic examination is to find facts, and via these facts to recreate the truth of an event. The examiner reveals the truth of an event by discovering and exposing the remnants of the event that are left on the system. The process of digital forensics is discussed into three categories of activity: acquisition, analysis, and presentation. The open source Initiative creates a formal definition that lays out the requirements for a software license to be truly open source. There are great many passionate screeds about the benefits of open source software, the ethics of software licensing, and the evils of proprietary software. The biggest benefit open source software provides to the examiner is the code itself.
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