The funny part is that they think the auditors simply copied the drive when in fact they imaged the drive. Imaged drives will contain all lost clusters, can be burned onto DVD directly, and can be verified with an md5/sha1 checksum to ensure no modifications after imaging. More important is if they use a commercial tool that generates these records (which I'm hoping they did). The arguments Maricopa county officials made are coming from a lack of understanding of these tools.
The funny part is that they think the auditors simply copied the drive when in fact they imaged the drive. Imaged drives will contain all lost clusters, can be burned onto DVD directly, and can be verified with an md5/sha1 checksum to ensure no modifications after imaging. More important is if they use a commercial tool that generates these records (which I'm hoping they did). The arguments Maricopa county officials made are coming from a lack of understanding of these tools.
...Something, something, are stupid.