Lars Daniel

What is the best way to save text messages for court? A digital forensics expert says move to a new phone, then power the old one off and leave it off.

An expert witness asked ChatGPT to show the company was "0% at fault" in a deadly Houston explosion case. The prompts came out at trial and show experts how not to use AI.

Will Smith eating spaghetti has become the benchmark for AI generated videos. Yeah, it's funny, but if work in claims, litigation - if your work could touch the courtroom - the rapid progression should be a wakeup call.

When people far from casework decide how digital forensics gets done, the errors land on defendants and victims. A veteran digital forensics examiner is pushing back.

For one day in late July, anyone could type a sentence into Google Earth and get a fake satellite image rendered on top of Google's real imagery of a real place. Researchers made a nuclear plant in Iran and a bomb crater at a Gaza hospital within…

Google pulled AI image generation from Google Earth one day after launch because of fraud concerns. A digital forensics expert on what happens next.

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.Employment…

Can a screenshot still prove workplace harassment? A digital forensics expert on why cases that never needed forensics now depend on the device behind the message.

Digital evidence authentication faces a growing crisis as metadata, once a key indicator, proves increasingly unreliable. While metadata provides information like creation date and location, it's easily altered on phones or with free tools. Innocent…

Text message screenshots are unreliable as legal evidence. Easily faked even before generative AI. A screenshot is merely a picture of pixels, lacking the verifiable data found in a smartphone's internal database, which holds critical forensic…

A digital forensics expert on why screenshots of text messages prove almost nothing, what carrier records and backups miss and when only the smartphone can answer.

Metadata was never proof. It is an envelope written in pencil, and every new app and upload pipeline hands someone else an eraser.

"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…

'It wasn't me. The agent did it.' AI agents can use a computer like a ghost or just like you. A digital forensics expert on proving whether you or the AI touched the file.

GenAI has ruined trust because anyone can make fraudulent media (like photos, videos, audio) with little to no technical skill or cost.

A police officer allegedly used AI to fabricate evidence. The deeper problem is that no one kept the original recording to catch it. Here is the fix.

Why catching deepfake video calls belongs on your device—not in the cloud.

How did a deepfake indict an innocent person in federal court without anyone catching it? The first federal survey of judges on deepfake challenges just dropped.

New research shows ChatGPT can forge receipt numbers so convincingly that humans, forensic tools, and even ChatGPT itself cannot tell the fakes from originals.

Digital forensics is the only reliable answer to deepfakes—it's also being weaponized to drive litigation costs.