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		NORTH TEXAS REGIONAL COMPUTER FORENSICS LABORATORY

301 North Market Street, Suite 500 Dallas, Texas 75202 Office# 972-559-5800 Fax# 972-559-5881


	Accredited by the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors / Laboratory Accreditation Board since 2004


	Since its inception, the NTRCFL has examined the following amounts of digital data:

	2000 2.6 terabytes
	2001 6.3 terabytes
	2002 14.6 terabytes
	2003 23.6 terabytes
	2004 26.8 terabytes
	2005 28.6 terabytes
	2006 44.4 terabytes


	A terrabyte is 1000 gigabytes or 1,000,000 megabytes. A megabyte is about 500 typed pages. In 2006, the NTRCFL processed digital evidence that, if printed, would have been a stack of paper over 1376 miles tall.

If all those pages were laid end to end, they would reach around the Earth at the equator just over 152 times, or reach to the Moon and back just over 8 times.



	The NTRCFL processed over 50% of the digital evidence involving the aftermath of Sept 11th, 2001. The case was titled, the “PENTTBOM” investigation. It was named after the terrorist attacks against the Pentagon, Twin Towers of the World Trade Center and the crash in Pennsylvania.

The following are a sampling of the types of computer crime evidence that the NTRCFL examines:

Child Pornography

Computer Intrusion

Crimes against Children

Drug Trafficking

Environmental Crime

Financial - White Collar Crime

Homicide

Internet Fraud

Terrorism ( Domestic and International )

2005 TOP 5 SERVICE REQUESTS BY CATEGORY OF CRIME:


	1. Child Pornography, 2. White Collar Crime, 3. Public Corruption, 4. Terrorism, 5. Sexual Assault/Traveler Cases