by Steve Burgess | Apr 20, 2026 | Uncategorized
Metadata as a Silent Witness: What It Can Reveal About Your Case Copyright 2026, Steve Burgess Every digital file has two stories to tell. The first is the one you can read — the contract, the email, the photograph. The second story is invisible, buried in the file...
by Steve Burgess | Mar 17, 2026 | Uncategorized
Email, Texts, & Cloud Data: Where Critical Evidence Hides, Part II Copyright 2026, Steve Burgess In over four decades of digital forensics work, I’ve examined more than 20,000 devices and pieces of digital evidence. And in that time I’ve...
by Steve Burgess | Feb 15, 2026 | Uncategorized
Can You Trust What You See? The Rise of Deepfakes and What It Means for Justice Copyright 2026, Steve Burgess I’ve been working with digital evidence since 1985, and I’ve seen a lot of changes. Back then, the biggest challenge was recovering data from a 10...
by Steve Burgess | Feb 11, 2026 | Uncategorized
Deepfakes, AI, and the New Frontier of Digital Evidence Copyright 2026, Steve Burgess It was true forty years ago and it’s truer today: “Just because it’s digital doesn’t mean it’s true.” We’re now facing a challenge that...
by Steve Burgess | Jan 30, 2026 | Uncategorized
Top 5 Mistakes Lawyers Make With Digital Evidence – Copyright 2026, Steve Burgess After forty years working with attorneys on digital evidence, I’ve seen the same mistakes cost cases time and again. Here are five of the most common – and how to avoid...
by Steve Burgess | Nov 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
20 Digital Forensics Facts for Attorneys copyright 2025 Steve Burgess Deleted ≠ gone: Most deleted files remain recoverable until overwritten. Every case is a data case: Even “non-digital” disputes usually contain text messages, emails, or documents. Forensic imaging:...
