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How To Save Text Messages For Court? Turn The Phone Off

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.

Oct 08 26October 08, 2026

Article at Forbes

Expert Witness Asked ChatGPT To Show 0% Fault—The Wrong Way For Experts To Use AI

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.

Aug 26 26August 26, 2026

Article at Forbes

WIll Smith eating spaghetti should be a wakeup call for anyone who cares about reality.

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.

Aug 21 26August 21, 2026

Video at Lars Daniel | Digital Forensics and Evidence

Brett Shavers And Magnet Forensics Ask Where Digital Investigations Break Down—AI Makes The Answers Urgent

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.

Aug 13 26August 13, 2026

Article at Forbes

Google And Meta Shipped AI Tools That Fake Evidence—Then Pulled Them Days Later

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…

Aug 11 26August 11, 2026

Video at Lars Daniel | Digital Forensics and Evidence

Google And Meta Shipped AI Tools That Fake Evidence—Then Pulled Them Days Later

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

Aug 11 26August 11, 2026

Article at Forbes

Fake Text Messages At Work: Why Misconduct Cases Now Need Digital Forensics Because of Deepfakes

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…

Jul 29 26July 29, 2026

Video at Lars Daniel | Digital Forensics and Evidence

Fake Text Messages In Workplace Investigations—Why Misconduct Cases Now Need Digital Forensics

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.

Jul 28 26July 28, 2026

Article at Forbes

5 Reasons Metadata Can’t Prove Your Photo—Or Any File—Is Real

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…

Jul 17 26July 17, 2026

Video at Lars Daniel | Digital Forensics and Evidence

Screenshots of text messages are easy to fake.

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…

Jul 17 26July 17, 2026

Video at Lars Daniel | Digital Forensics and Evidence

Message Screenshots Are Terrible Evidence—Courts Accept Them Anyway

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.

Jul 15 26July 15, 2026

Article at Forbes

5 Reasons Metadata Can’t Prove Your Photo—Or Any File—Is Real

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

Jul 15 26July 15, 2026

Article at Forbes

Officer, it wasn't me - my AI did it!

"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…

Jul 09 26July 09, 2026

Video at Lars Daniel | Digital Forensics and Evidence

‘My AI Did It’ Is The Next Courtroom Excuse—And It Might Actually Work

'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.

Jul 06 26July 06, 2026

Article at Forbes

AI has ruined trust. If you aren't worried about fraud, you should be.

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

Jun 16 26June 16, 2026

Video at Lars Daniel | Digital Forensics and Evidence

AI Is Writing Police Evidence—And The Original Is Vanishing

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.

Jun 15 26June 15, 2026

Article at Forbes

Deepfakes Make Video Calls Dangerous—On-Device Detection Is The Answer

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

Jun 02 26June 02, 2026

Article at Forbes

A Confidential Informant's Deepfake Indicted An Innocent Person

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.

May 14 26May 14, 2026

Article at Forbes

ChatGPT Can Fake A Receipt But Can’t Spot Its Own Work

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

May 05 26May 05, 2026

Article at Forbes

Digital Forensics Is the Only Sure Answer to Deepfakes. It's Also the Liar's Dividend's Second Payout

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

Apr 30 26April 30, 2026

Article at Forbes

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