If you don't believe me, just try to find a national advertisement that doesn't prominently list the Internet web site of the advertiser. Or try to find a business that doesn't rely on a computer to track its sales and maintain its business records.
Computers are everywhere.
They have even found their way into most households and portable computing is a way of life for most business travelers. The rapid acceptance of computer technology by all segments of our society has created new and interesting challenges for law enforcement agencies and prosecuting attorneys. Computer evidence has become a fact of life' for essentially all law enforcement agencies and many are just beginning to explore their options in dealing with this new technology. Almost over night, personal computers have changed the way the world does business. They have also changed the worlds view of evidence because computers are used more and more as tools in the commission of traditional' crimes.