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evidenceevidencedigital2015 Federal TrialDD disk image of Mr. Ulbricht's laptopBeeson testified that he used DD to image Ulbricht's running laptop. His simultaneous imaging and MD5 hashing attempt failed with a permission-denied error, so he repeated the command without simultaneous hashing and generated the hash on October 3. He explained that continued activity on the live file system meant a later image would not match.
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DD disk image of Mr. Ulbricht's laptop

Beeson testified that he used DD to image Ulbricht's running laptop. His simultaneous imaging and MD5 hashing attempt failed with a permission-denied error, so he repeated the command without simultaneous hashing and generated the hash on October 3. He explained that continued activity on the live file system meant a later image would not match.

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The questioning examined whether live collection preserved the laptop's earlier state, without establishing that any identified incriminating file was fabricated, changed, or omitted.

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