Can Certainty in Digital Forensics Be Automated?

The answers are multifaceted. For one thing, one device found at a crime scene or on a suspect is not the same as DNA found in the same places. Instead, the device contains the digital data comparable to DNA: not just the content, but also the metadata, usage patterns, and even versions that help to determine how data got on a device. Thus the mathematics in calculating likelihood can get complicated — compounded by the fact that for digital forensics, researchers are still figuring the math. As a result, said Hannes Spichiger, a Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts lecturer who has <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=6zHqmnIAAAAJ" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">researched the topic since 2017</a>, current capabilities haven’t evolved to the point where they can provide likelihood approaches for more than a handful of digital traces. <a href="https://medium.com/forensic-horizons/can-certainty-in-digital-forensics-be-automated-4f64ba22555d">Learn More</a>