Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law Volume 11 Number 2 Article 11 2016 Verification of Recovered Digital Evidence on the Amazon Kindle Marcus Thompson Purdue University Raymond Hansen Purdue University Follow this and additional works at: https://commons.erau.edu/jdfsl Part of the Computer Engineering Commons, Computer Law Commons, Electrical and Computer Engineering Commons, Forensic Science and Technology Commons, and the Information Security Commons Recommended Citation Thompson, Marcus and Hansen, Raymond (2016) "Verification of Recovered Digital Evidence on the Amazon Kindle," Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law: Vol. 11 : No. 2 , Article 11. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15394/jdfsl.2016.1386 Available at: https://commons.erau.edu/jdfsl/vol11/iss2/11 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at Scholarly Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law by an authorized administrator of (c)ADFSL Scholarly Commons. For more information, please contact
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[email protected] ABSTRACT The Amazon Kindle is a popular e-book reader. This popularity will lead criminals to use the Kindle as an accessory to their crime. Very few Kindle publications in the digital forensics domain exist at the time of this writing. Various blogs on the Internet currently provide some of the foundation for Kindle forensics. For this research each fifth generation Kindle was populated with various types of files a typical user may introduce using one method, the USB interface.