1 . As stated at the beginning of the chapter, it was discovered that the McDonald's Monopoly game was a fraud. Simon Marketing, which ran the game on behalf of McDonald's, was responsible for the fraud. During the investigation to uncover the fraud, the FBI used several different forms of surveillance. Using the lntemet, find newspapers and other sources of information that describe these forms of surveillance and then answer the following questions:

a. How d id the FBI use surveillance to gather evidence regarding Simon Marketing's illegal activities?

b. Were the surveillance methods used by the FBI effective?

2. Computer forensics is a rapidly expanding field with new ways to search computers an d electronic data appearing all the time. Search the Internet to find an open source or proprietary forensic application (or full application suite) that could be used to conduct computer searches.

For your application, search for the following information:

a. Publisher (company or person information, including URL).

b. Cost of software.

c. Estimated learning curve (based on your reading of the site and external reviews, provide some indication of how easy the software would be to use).

d. Specific functions of this software.