Re: Creation / modification / access dates

On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 12:57:38 PDT, Michael Edwards <medwards@digital-legal.com> said:

> Firstly, is there any way to determine the creation date of a CD-ROM - is

There's probably a way to find the *claimed* creation date.

I suggest you think about what you will use the information for, and whether the creator has any reason/motivation to put bogus data in the field. Remember, to the CD burner, it's just 650 megabytes of ones and zeros.....

If I'm burning a new boot CD for my users, I will probably put the right date in there. If I'm trying to create a bogus "backup" of financial info from 3 months ago, I'll be looking to lie.....

Do you need help?

In addition to our free technical library, Pantek provides professional IT services to companies who utilize Open Source software: Learn more about Pantek's Technical Support offerings Place an order for 24/7/365 Technical Support here Learn more about Pantek, who we are, and what we do Chat with a Live Operator Related securityfocus.com Links bugtraq certification focus-bsd focus-ids focus-ih focus-linux focus-ms focus-sun focus-unix-other focus-virus forensics incidents libnet linux-secnews ms-secnews pen-test secpapers secprog sectools secureshell security-basics securityjobs sf-news vuln-dev webappsec Request more information about Pantek