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It takes a partic - book or other cloud based or home based software. ular kind of entrepreneur, the kind movies are made Saliba was suddenly back in the middle of fighting about. crime, and living a scenario that is now the basis for Jad Saliba, ex-Waterloo Region Police officer, cancer several prime time television shows. survivor, computer geek, passionate guardian of civil Saliba worked tirelessly in his new post; he became society and founder of JADsoftware is that kind of passionate about searching and finding evidence rele - entrepreneur. vant to each case. As time went on, he wondered if In 2006, Officer Saliba was the family bread winner, there was even more evidence out there. He wondered father to three adorable children and a dedicated hus - what was left on the suspect’s hard drive. He asked band to a beautiful wife. In 2007, life slammed Saliba questions like “Was there information left after the win - into a tailspin. He was diagnosed with cancer at the dow was closed or program deleted?” Saliba became age of 26; through the next year he went through the very passionate about improving his process, to the ups and downs of chemotherapy. His dream of police extent that that he would spend countless hours after work, raising a family, and watching his kids grow, was work, at home, working on new solutions that would in jeopardy. assist his work during the day. But throughout his ordeal, he maintained his dream Saliba found traces of programs in a device’s mem - of fighting bad guys. And at the end of his cancer ther - ory that could be organized. He discovered you could apy, Saliba was provided an opportunity that would see the entire message left on the device’s memory or change his life forever. fragmented in traces scattered over different parts of Saliba had computer skills, and a pretty good the hard drive. They were linked, as each message had understanding of programs and programming. Prior to a common signature or recognizable and repeated the police force he did some time at Opentext, a series of binary code, the zeros and ones that all com - Waterloo world-renowned technology company. puter language is based on. It’s been said that more than 33% of all the world’s He was meticulous, and would attempt to identify internet traffic flows through heavily secured servers, various software signatures, such as what Facebook that far more secure data flows than the general popu - messages look like. lation’s surfing and searching data. Working in his bedroom and late into the night, Sali - Leveraging his skills, the Waterloo Regional Police ba was still recovering from his cancer therapy. Yet Force had the perfect position for him. It was low here, Saliba laid the groundwork for what would stress, technically based and would utilize Saliba’s become known around the globe as the first useful knowledge of programing. 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