Digital Forensics: A New Moving Target For Law Enforcement

This week, the Justice Department backtracked on its demands for Apple to unlock the phone of one of the alleged San Bernardino shooters, announcing that they had in fact found a third party who could do the job with a lot less resistance.

But the importance of digital forensics and the cosmic clash of technology and law enforcement continues to become more and more important. Already, the digital trail of those responsible for the attack in Brussels is being examined with minute detail.

Jeff Smith is the associate director of the National Center for Media Forensics at the University of Colorado, Denver and he says the challenge is and has always been keeping pace with the technology that criminals and terrorists rely upon.