Re:Worrisome? (Score 1)

What's the big deal? Computer Forensics Examiners/Investigators need to get licensed. They can pass the test and criminal background check can't they? How about liability insurance and bonding, as required in some states for a PI license? The client deserves nothing less, and needs the protections against a growing unlicensed free-for-all computer forensics community that has produced some fraud lately. You knew it was coming. The license free ride was eventually going to stop since the computer forensics case work was getting way too important not to be licensed and regulated by the state. Geez, almost everyone else in the criminal and civil justice system is regulated to protect the consumer. What makes the computer forensics investigator so special? It's obvious the computer forensics community is not policing themselves, so someone has to control the fraud and incompetence that I am seeing. Again, the client/consumer deserves nothing less, and that is the goal of licensing.....to protect the consumer. There's a famous Fresno, CA case where a fraudulent unlicensed computer forensics investigator was caught while qualifying as an expert witness with false credentials and a 1996 prior felony conviction. He has since been sentenced. Me and others know this topic is "old" and we have done the research and case law studies months ago. It's no longer a debate, just the implementation of the licensing. I have personally been involved in cases where I have watched clever lawyers use rather simple code-based tactics to remove an unlicensed opposition computer forensics investigator. It's a career changing event for the ones that I saw caught and removed from cases. The last one was two months ago on an online stalking case where the computer forensics examiner with his very important computer evidence was not going to be allowed to testify until he produced a license.