ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at much greater depth at many of the different locations, both physical and logical, where electronic information resides. Electronically stored information surrounds us like an ever-deepening fog or an overwhelming flood. The data are read-only, but the device can be electronically erased and then reprogrammed with new data. The first thing to understand about electronic data is that anything stored in a digital device is represented by ones and zeros. E-mail is perhaps the largest and most well-known repository of electronic information. In the end, electronic records that prove where someone was and when can be extremely important. The important takeaway from all of the wealth of information should be that electronic information is created in myriad places and is stored in a huge number of ways, but that in the end it is all just ones and zeros piled up in some designated.
