Dedicated to the branch of forensic science encompassing the recovery and investigation of material found in digital devices, often in relation to computer crime. This field involves the application of several information security principles and aims to provide for attribution and event reconstruction following forth from audit processes. This subreddit is not limited to just personal computers and encompasses all media that may also fall under digital forensics (e.g., cellphones, video, etc.).
WIRED published an article claiming “independent video forensics experts” found “metadata” that indicates the Epstein footage released by DOJ was sliced up in Premier.
Just out of curiosity, are there any practitioners here who are familiar enough with video forensics that they can comfortably opine on the plausibility of these findings? Of course, no description of analysis methodology is provided in the article, but as a digital forensics practitioner who has only surface-level experience with video forensics, I’m just interested to hear from someone more experienced than I on whether these “findings” even make sense. Like do MP4 files in general even possess internally embedded metadata that could substantiate the findings conveyed by this article?