Tag: Forensics

Our previous article in this series reported that the more conclusive the evidence (and the more confident the expert testifying to it), the better for jurors’ decision making. Probabilistic reporting, introduced to forensic science by DNA analysis, has proven particularly effective....

ChatGPT has seemingly exploded out of nowhere in the last several weeks. This article is the first in a series exploring how it, and more broadly no-longer-theoretical Artificial Intelligence will potentially change key aspects of the digital forensics field, and what we as a society and forensics p...

Never mind the creativity that comes along with ADHD; the unique capacity it gives me to pull together multiple threads into a cohesive package. Or that I was writing to help other ADHD’ers, including my own children, to embrace parts of themselves that are so often shamed. No, I gave into ...

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...