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Try to Be More Sensitive

Discovering Insensitivity Running through the steps of an exercise during the Mobile Forensic Analysis course from Hexordia . I ran into an interesting sensitivity issue. For me, unsolved issue like this are not acceptable. I'm sure that if you are a forensicator like me, this same standard applies to you. Let's walk through my testing and the solution I discovered. The Problem with Insensitivity I was dealing with data from Apple File System from an iOS image in ZIP format. Although many tools can parse the ZIP file as is, others may require the file to be extracted. You may want to manually browser through the files and folders as well. When performing the ZIP extraction on a Windows computer, you are likely to run into a problem. This problem will cause you to miss possibly vital information. The problem I speak of is based on the File System's inability to handle case sensitivity. In the screenshot below, you will note that the extraction was attempting to put two file