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Digital forensics explained on camera, in minutes: deepfakes, cell phone evidence and what holds up in court.
Fake text messages are showing up in workplace investigations, and real messages could be denied as deepfakes. In this video: why the receipts that used to settle misconduct cases stopped settling anything, and what proof looks like now.
Digital evidence authentication faces a growing crisis as metadata, once a key indicator, proves increasingly unreliable.
Text message screenshots are unreliable as legal evidence. Easily faked even before generative AI.
"It wasn't me. My AI did it." That defense is coming, and the way AI agents work right now, it might hold up. Ovie Carroll, SANS instructor and career federal cybercrime investigator, ran the test that shows why: an AI agent edited a Word document and left none of the records that usually show a per
GenAI has ruined trust because anyone can make fraudulent media (like photos, videos, audio) with little to no technical skill or cost.
Read my full article at Forbes about how deepfakes and covert coaching are changing how depositions have to be run in the United States:
The FBI recovered deleted Signal messages from an iPhone in a recent federal case. Signal's encryption was not broken. Here is what actually happened, and why the data was still on the phone.In a federal terrorism case in Texas, the FBI pulled incoming Signal messages off a defendant's iPhone after
Deepfakes are already reaching U.S. courtrooms. And in the deepfake era, proving a piece of digital evidence is real often requires specialized forensic experts that public defenders rarely have the funding to bring in. That gap may become the gap between a fair trial and a wrongful conviction.
Police jailed an innocent woman for five months on a bogus AI hashtag#FacialRecognition match. In this case, the real failure is human, not machine.
Cellebrite’s 2026 Industry Trends Report found that 97% of investigators now identify smartphones as their primary source of digital evidence. The report surveyed 1,200 practitioners in 63 countries. Two years ago that figure was 73%. If you’re an attorney who hasn’t had to grapple with cell phone e
A claims adjuster reviews damage photos. A detective examines cell phone video. A family law attorney presents screenshots in a custody hearing. None of them can confirm with certainty that what they're looking at is real.
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