What are cookies? What is their basic purpose and how are they used by forensic examiners?

What will be an ideal response?


Cookies are files placed on a computer’s HDD by Web sites the user has visited. A cookie is used by the Web site to track certain information about its visitors, often for sales and marketing purposes. Cookies are useful for forensic examiners because they can provide a history of the Web sites visited
by the user of a particular computer.

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The _________ ___________is a model that delineates and defines the primary roles of a chief executive officer

Fill in the blanks with correct word

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Instrumentalities of a crime are objects that the defendant used to commit the crime.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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When the executive or the legislature selects judges, fewer district attorneys become judges

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Evidence-based programs are best defined as what?

a. There is evidence of success by reducing recidivism. b. These programs are the only programs used in prison today. c. There are programs which have been subjected to cost-benefit analysis. d. These are the only programs supported by politicians.

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