# Digital Forensic

**Forensic** means:

* it has legal requirements to be accepted into a court of law.

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A digital forensic investigation is a more restricted form of digital investigation.
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> "_Process that uses science and technology to analyze digital objects and that develops and tests theories, which can be entered into a court of law, to answer questions about events that occurred._"\
> Definition by Brian Carrier&#x20;

The systematic and technological inspection of a computer system and its contents in order to obtain evidence of a crime or any other use that is under investigation.
