Automating Disk Image Redaction

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  • February 28, 2019
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  • Emerson, Casey
    • Affiliation: School of Information and Library Science
Abstract
  • In order to comply with best preservation and curation practices, collecting institutions must ensure that private and sensitive information contained in born-digital materials has been properly redacted before the materials are made available. Institutions receiving donor media in the form of hard disks, USB flash drives, compact disks, floppy disks, and even entire computers, are increasingly creating bit-identical copies called disk images. Redacting data from within a disk image currently is a manual, time-consuming task. In this project, I demonstrate the feasibility of automating disk image redaction using open-source, forensic software. I discuss the problems encountered when redacting disk images using automated methods and ways to improve future disk image redaction tools.
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  • Lee, Christopher
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  • Master of Science in Information Science
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  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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  • 62
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  • d7785490-d2fb-4c91-87e8-ab98814f6378

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