CoverageIndustry 6 min read
Coverage should not depend on a vendor release cycle
The most consequential decision in a forensic examination is often made months earlier, in a product meeting the examiner was not in.
14 July 2026 Read
Articles
About the problems, not about the product.
Each piece argues a thesis about a real constraint in the work. VERA is mentioned once, near the end, where it is mentioned at all.
ExtractionsPractice 7 min read
What a Full File System extraction actually contains, and why most of it is never examined
A modern phone extraction is not a large set of messages. It is an operating system, dozens of application stores, and a sediment of caches and system traces. Understanding the shape of it explains where examination time goes.
21 July 2026 Read
AIAdmissibility 7 min read
Verifying AI output in digital forensics: what a court needs to see
An AI assistant in a forensic tool is only usable if its output can be checked against the original record. That requirement is not a compliance detail, it is the design constraint everything else follows from.
28 July 2026 Read
SovereigntyProcurement 6 min read
Why on-premise matters for seized-device data
For a forensic laboratory, running analysis software on its own infrastructure is not a preference about IT architecture. It is usually the difference between being able to buy a product and not.
4 August 2026 Read
CoveragePractice 6 min read
Unsupported applications: the quiet bottleneck in forensic laboratories
The applications a forensic tool cannot read are not exotic. They are regional, they are new, or they simply updated last month, and together they account for a meaningful share of the evidence that is never examined.
11 August 2026 Read
SearchPractice 6 min read
Keyword search misses coded language, which is the daily reality of narcotics work
Investigative vocabulary is deliberately oblique, it varies between groups, and it changes over time. A search built on exact string matching is structurally unable to keep up with it.
18 August 2026 Read
MediaPractice 6 min read
Media volume in child protection cases: what triage can and cannot do
Media is where the volume sits and where review costs the most, in the cases where the cost is highest. Automated triage helps with the arithmetic. It does not remove the examiner, and it should never be sold as though it did.
25 August 2026 Read
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