Question

Draft a responses for each of the questions below, which will address the information collected from the scenario. Your response should demonstrate critical thinking and be from the perspective of a law enforcement professional. Write your answers in complete sentences and provide justification for your responses.

1. TRUE OR FALSE. If the investigators authenticated the evidence then this means that the original text messages were compared to the copies of the text messages to make sure that they are exactly the same.
2. MULTIPLE CHOICE. The Williams Family elected to contact local law enforcement to report the situation in the scenario. Which category of investigation would the scenario fall under
   1. Public Investigation
   2. Private Investigation
   3. Administrative Investigation
   4. All of the above
3. TRUE OR FALSE. The Cybercrime Investigators in this case do not need to have electronic evidence authenticated to be admissible in court.

Answer 1

Solution 1: True, authentication is a process that involves finding out whether the information that is beiing obtained about some entity is true or false. It is checked for for its authenticity by comparing the copy of the original message with the original message.

Solution 2: Option A, It is a case of public investigation in which the family has reached out to the local law encforcement agency that actuallly works under government of a country. For example. FBI, etc.

Solution 3: False, the cybercrime investigators have to prove the authenticity of the electronic evidences that have been collected by them before they can be presented against the courts of law. It is only when the courts would consider it as a valid evidence and hence allow the prosecution.

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