User talk:ILook.Jedi

This software is only available to law enforcement agencies.

ILook Investigator computer forensic software was created, and is still today authored, by Elliot Spencer. Elliot originally developed ILook to give investigators around the world the ability to investigate offenses involving digital evidence without having to spend thousands of dollars on commercial software. Elliot created ILook and decided to license it free to law enforcement computer forensics professionals.

In May 2001 the US Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) Electronic Crimes Program partnered with Elliot Spencer and funded further development of the ILook software to address the growing needs to seize and analyze large volumes of digital evidence. In July 2001 ILook v7 was released to the law enforcement community. At about the same time, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) partnered with IRS-CI to enhance ILook to meet digital evidence investigative needs.

Roughly around March 2003 the IRS-CI (and Federal partners) continued funding the ILook project which lead to the development and release of ILook v8 and the IXimager. ILook v8 was a major change to the previous version and added quite a few enhancements for analyzing many types of digital evidence artifacts. ILook v8 was developed with the primary goal of allowing an investigator the ability to sift through large volumes of data quickly and effectively. This made the ILook Graphical User Interface (GUI) complex and robust. The IXimager (ILook's external stand-alone acquisition tool) was also developed to accomplish fast and efficient digital evidence imaging during and after search warrant activity. The IXimager was designed as a micro-kernel variant of Linux (BusyBox and uClibc) and was engineered to meet National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) standards for digital evidence imaging.