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Colonial Pipeline paid millions of dollars in bitcoin to ransomware hackers.  The FBI, DOJ, and other U.S. government agencies were able to trace and recover most of this ransom.

You are a Special Agent executing a search warrant at a house.  You come across a phone belonging to the subject of your investigation.  The search warrant specifically says that you can seize and search that phone.  If possible, you should do ALL of the below:

An ISP that moves its servers overseas so as not to have to comply with CALEA may run afoul of which act or law:          

An IP packet (block of data sent across the Internet) contains a header section and a data section.

When you are on the web you can tell if you are using Transport Layer Security (TLS) because a website will have “https” at the start of the URL. 

Connecting a USB drive, or other kinds of flash memory, to a Windows computer leaves a digital footprint in the Windows file ______.

The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server assigns a unique IP address, and then after a client leaves the network, that IP address is released and can be used for a new host that enters the network.

Why is it so important for law enforcement to find out where the server is in a criminal investigation?

In the lecture, a firewall was compared to a____________________.

Can the government force a suspect to give a blood sample, a handwriting exemplar, stand in a lineup, or provide a voice exemplar?