One concern some have with live forensics is the risk of modifying data on the suspect machine and there-by making the suspect evidence inadmissible in court. A good live forensics tool should be designed to minimize the footprint on the suspects system and the footprint left by the tool should be verifiable and reproducible. This allows the investigation to show that no modifications were made to the evidence through use of the live forensics tool. Verifying MAC times (modify, access, and create times) can help establish the time context also.
