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    [The Derbyshire Police] declined to give more detail
    about what the evidential material consisted of. 
    The term can be used to describe witness statements.

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bobthepanda

32 minutes ago

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i do wonder, that in the age where we have image and video creation out of the bag, whether or not this will result in whole classes of evidence becoming completely unreliable.

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yardstick

11 minutes ago

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There used to be - probably still are - cameras that would digitally sign all their images. Used in crime scenes? Maybe we will end up seeing wider adoption of this, despite the privacy implications. Hackers attention then will focus (once again) on the certificate supply chain and crypto hardware.

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aorloff

6 minutes ago

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I imagine in this age of blockchains you could embed into a media file a signature that proved it was no older than the timestamp of when it occurred, the digital equivalent of a hostage-proof-of-life photo with a recent newspaper

But I don't know of a cryptographic mechanism to ensure that a digital image is not more recent than a particular time

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catlikesshrimp

57 seconds ago

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Interesting, There aren't any newspapers left in my country, neither printed onr not printed. The closest you can find is the weekly advertising booklet here and there.

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thewebguyd

28 minutes ago

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I suspect so. Tbh, I'm surprised it hasn't happened already with the amount of processing that cell phones do on photos, with generative fill/expand/perspective change, etc.

We are quickly going to reach a point where any photo or video taken on a smartphone is inadmissible by default.

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pjc50

24 minutes ago

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There's a big gap between "theoretically unreliable" and courts actually recognizing that, unfortunately. Lots of forensics is much more dubious than CSI would have you believe.