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March 14, 2007 | Volume 1, Issue 11

THIS WEEK'S FEATURE

State of the state: Preparing for a career in forensics
Universities across the country are full of students hoping to launch a career in forensic investigations.

From criminalistics to odontology and any of the many related disciplines, interest in the forensic sciences is at an all-time high.
Blame Hollywood, some say.

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IN THE MAGAZINE

Calling The Shots: New Technique Links Digital Images to Exact Camera
Just as ballistic experts can trace bullet casings back to the gun that fired the shell, university researchers have devised a way to trace specific digital photographs back to the exact digital camera that took the photo.

Every original digital picture is overlaid by a weak noiselike pattern of pixel-to-pixel nonuniformity, according to Jessica Fridrich, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Binghamton University, State University of New York.

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PRODUCT FOCUS

Foster & Freeman: Workstation
The VSC4plus is a workstation for examining suspected counterfeit documents, such as passports, visas, ID cards, birth certificates, and other feeder documents. Facilities are provided for checking the majority of security features, such as watermarks, holograms, retro-reflective images, UV activated features, anti-Stokes features, ICAO coded data, and scrambled indicia data. (Foster & Freeman)

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