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When I spoke with state/fed computer forensics types once they said it was ~50% of their workload.


Why? That's absurd.


Not at all. Going after child porn is both popular and safe.

The feds like to go after (some) copyright infringement because politically connected industries want that.

The ideal crime, from the feds' perspective, is one that combines all three characteristics.


One guy I talked to said occasionally they might have an attorney wanting them to do some time-consuming, heroic forensics on, say, a CD duplicator to find out how many copies of something were made. His response was something like "This guy's got pictures of a little boy getting sodomized here we're not going to drop this to work on that." Apparently there are a lot of people trading that child porn.

These forensics guys seemed to know what they're doing and had a good perspective on their priorities.




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