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>"The other was a forensic examiner who testified that it was his "best guess" that child pornography was on the drives." This guy needs to be fired. How in th
by cmdrfred 11y ago
>"The other was a forensic examiner who testified that it was his "best guess" that child pornography was on the drives."
This guy needs to be fired. How in the hell can you tell that it's even images or video let alone children if it's encrypted? I'd love to see a technical explanation of how he came to that conclusion. Can the defendant sue for such a statement given that it's almost entirely fabricated?
- knodi123 11y agoI'm not saying this is what happened, (and from what I've read, it's as absurd as you think). However, an expert could hypothetically have all sorts of clue about the contents of an encrypted drive. Keep in mind that encrypted files still probably have a "last modified date" maintained by the OS, and that many viewer/player apps keep a timestamped list of recent files. If they see that realplayer claims to have played "nude_12_year_old.avi" on a "z:\" drive on a certain date, and that an encryption app opened an encrypted file a little while before that.... You can't know, but an expert could, hypothetically, make an educated guess. Again, not saying that's what the expert did here. Just saying that this sort of conclusion is theoretically possible in some cases.