2014/09/30 by Mark Scanlon, Jason Farina, Scanlon, Mark +5 · 1 citation
Computer Science · #Cloud Data Security Solutions #Computers and Society (cs.CY) #Cryptography and Security (cs.CR) #Digital and Cyber Forensics #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data #cs.CR #cs.CY
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1409.8486
Special Issue on Proc. of Sixth International Conference on Digital Forensics & Cyber Crime, ICDF2C'14, Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law, Vol 9, No 2, September 2014
arxiv created 2014/09/30 · openalex publication_date 2014/09/30 · arxiv updated 2014/10/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
File synchronization services such as Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Apple iCloud, etc., are becoming increasingly popular in today's always-connected world. A popular alternative to the aforementioned services is BitTorrent Sync. This is a decentralized/cloudless file synchronization service and is gaining significant popularity among Internet users with privacy concerns over where their data is stored and who has the ability to access it. The focus of this paper is the remote recovery of digital evidence pertaining to files identified as being accessed or stored on a suspect's computer or mobile device. A methodology for the identification, investigation, recovery and verification of such remote digital evidence is outlined. Finally, a proof-of-concept remote evidence recovery from BitTorrent Sync shared folder highlighting a number of potential scenarios for the recovery and verification of such evidence.