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, 2026Video at Lars Daniel | Digital Forensics and Evidence
Google And Meta Shipped AI Tools That Fake Evidence—Then Pulled Them Days LaterFor 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, 2026Video at Lars Daniel | Digital Forensics and Evidence
Fake Text Messages At Work: Why Misconduct Cases Now Need Digital Forensics Because of DeepfakesFake 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, 2026Video at Lars Daniel | Digital Forensics and Evidence
5 Reasons Metadata Can’t Prove Your Photo—Or Any File—Is RealDigital 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, 2026Video 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, 2026Video at Lars Daniel | Digital Forensics and Evidence
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, 2026Video at Lars Daniel | Digital Forensics and Evidence
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, 2026Video at Lars Daniel | Digital Forensics and Evidence
Real-time secret courtroom coaching is here, but depositions are the real risk.Read my full article at Forbes about how deepfakes and covert coaching are changing how depositions have to be run in the United… Apr 20 26April 20, 2026Video at Lars Daniel | Digital Forensics and Evidence
FBI Recovered Deleted Signal Messages. Here's How.The FBI recovered deleted Signal messages from an iPhone in a recent federal case. Signal's encryption was not broken. Here is what actually happened, and why the data was still on the phone.In a federal terrorism case in Texas, the FBI pulled… Apr 10 26April 10, 2026Video at Lars Daniel | Digital Forensics and Evidence
Deepfakes as a service is the new ransomware as a service.DESCRIPTION:Deepfake-as-a-Service is not a hypothetical. It's here, it's cheap, and it's following the exact same playbook that made ransomware-as-a-service a decade-long crisis.In this video I break down how DFaaS platforms work, why the affiliate… Apr 10 26April 10, 2026Video at Lars Daniel | Digital Forensics and Evidence
Deepfakes could break overworked and underfunded public defenders.Deepfakes are already reaching U.S. courtrooms. And in the deepfake era, proving a piece of digital evidence is real often requires specialized forensic experts that public defenders rarely have the funding to bring in. That gap may become the gap… Apr 06 26April 06, 2026Video at Lars Daniel | Digital Forensics and Evidence
Facial Recognition Angela LippsPolice jailed an innocent woman for five months on a bogus AI hashtag#FacialRecognition match. In this case, the real failure is human, not machine.#digitalforensics #larsdaniel #cellphoneforensics hashtag #teamrimkus #facialrecognition… Apr 01 26April 01, 2026Video at Lars Daniel | Digital Forensics and Evidence
Cell phone evidence in 97% of casesCellebrite’s 2026 Industry Trends Report found that 97% of investigators now identify smartphones as their primary source of digital evidence. The report surveyed 1,200 practitioners in 63 countries. Two years ago that figure was 73%. If you’re an… Mar 09 26March 09, 2026Video at Lars Daniel | Digital Forensics and Evidence
digital forensics, deepfakes, and the death of trust in visual evidence.A claims adjuster reviews damage photos. A detective examines cell phone video. A family law attorney presents screenshots in a custody hearing. None of them can confirm with certainty that what they're looking at is real.That's not hypothetical.… Mar 06 26March 06, 2026Video at Lars Daniel | Digital Forensics and Evidence
Fraud is easier than ever.Rented a car. Took a picture of it in the lot. Totally clean. Uploaded that photo to Grok and told it to add damage. 30 seconds. Fraud has always existed. But it has never been this easy. The tools are free, they require almost no skill, and anyone… Feb 19 26February 19, 2026Video at Lars Daniel | Digital Forensics and Evidence
Feel Nothing VideoI want you to feel nothing.Because we are living in a collective fever dream. A shocking image hits your amygdala. The emotion wins before you have a single thought.My advice:1. Feel nothing first.2. Pause. 3. Let the slow brain catch up.4. Then… Feb 16 26February 16, 2026Video at Lars Daniel | Digital Forensics and Evidence
AI Didn’t ‘Unmask’ The Minneapolis ICE Shooter — It Invented A FaceAI “unmasking” images of the Minneapolis ICE shooter are forgeries, not enhancements.#TeamRimkus #ICE #Minneapolis #VideoForensics #DigitalForensics #ReneeGood #GenAI #larsdaniel Jan 11 26January 11, 2026Video at Lars Daniel | Digital Forensics and Evidence
Cop 👮transforms into frog 🐸according to police report.Jan 05 26January 05, 2026Video at Lars Daniel | Digital Forensics and Evidence
Remote Cell Phone Collections Are No Good For Trucking LitigationNov 21 25November 21, 2025Video at Lars Daniel | Digital Forensics and Evidence
You Are Terrible At Spotting DeepfakesYou are terrible at spotting deepfakes...Because we all are, according to a new study by Amped Software. #digitalforensics #videoforensics #deepfake #genai #aivideo #aiphotoediting #TeamRimkus Nov 19 25November 19, 2025Video at Lars Daniel | Digital Forensics and Evidence
