"Computer forensics has also sparked a tremendous amount of controversy in the law enforcement, civil rights and technology fields. Some tech experts have even developed anti forensic software simply to prove that evidence collected from a computer is not reliable." -Carter Law, Criminal Defense Attorney

1) After learning about Computer Forensics in this module, do you think this quote is accurate? Why or why not?

2) Do you feel there are any situations in which it is unethical for law enforcement to seize and search a citizen's computer or data storage devices? Support your answer with at least 2 arguments.

3) What kind of controversy do you think the author of the quote was referring to in the "law enforcement, civil rights and technology fields"?

so here is the information for current research:

-nrel's geothermal analysts, scientists, and engineers perform a full range of research from developing advanced methods of locating and accessing geothermal resources to exploring innovative technologies to extract and produce clean energy from the heat of the earth

and here is the information for the technology of geothermal energy:

-it's clean and sustainable

-resources of geothermal energy range from the shallow ground to hot water and hot rock found a few miles beneath the earth's surface, and down even deeper to the extremely high temperatures of molten rock called magma

-almost everywhere, the shallow ground or upper 10 feet of the earth's surface maintains a nearly constant temperature between 50° and 60°f (10° and 16°c)

-geothermal heat pumps can tap into this resource to heat and cool buildings

-a geothermal heat pump system consists of a heat pump, an air delivery system (ductwork), and a heat exchanger-a system of pipes buried in the shallow ground near the building

-in the winter, the heat pump removes heat from the heat exchanger and pumps it into the indoor air delivery system

-in the summer, the process is reversed, and the heat pump moves heat from the indoor air into the heat exchanger

-the heat removed from the indoor air during the summer can also be used to provide a free source of hot water