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metadata tampering
Can anyone tell me if they know for sure whether or not metadata is
definitvely compromised if it shows the last print date predates a creation date. One would think the answer is yes but i recently deposed a police forensic moonlighting expert who explains away metadata in his report where the last print date precedes the create date in the metadata explaining if you print document 1 on day 1 and send it to another computer on day 5 and rename the document or otherwise revise it but do not print it the last print date of day 1 appears in the metadata of a new document showing a creation date of day 5. The defendant and my client the plaintiff are at odds with a court on possible perjury over who tampered with documents and I think the metadata shows conclusive tampering but the defendant's expert says he recreated this hypothetical which i could not nor could my IT person. Anyone help me on this! it is very important to my client? thanks. -- Jeff G. |
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Can anyone tell me if they know for sure whether or not metadata is
definitvely compromised if it shows the last print date predates a creation date. This situation can and does happen routinely. It is not evidence that the metadata is compromised. -- Enjoy, Tony "IPlawyertoo" wrote in message ... Can anyone tell me if they know for sure whether or not metadata is definitvely compromised if it shows the last print date predates a creation date. One would think the answer is yes but i recently deposed a police forensic moonlighting expert who explains away metadata in his report where the last print date precedes the create date in the metadata explaining if you print document 1 on day 1 and send it to another computer on day 5 and rename the document or otherwise revise it but do not print it the last date of day 1 appears in the metadata of a new document showing a creation date of day 5. The defendant and my client the plaintiff are at odds with a court on possible perjury over who tampered with documents and I think the metadata shows conclusive tampering but the defendant's expert says he recreated this hypothetical which i could not nor could my IT person. Anyone help me on this! it is very important to my client? thanks. -- Jeff G. |
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I would suggest that you Google for metadata tampering.
-- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "IPlawyertoo" wrote in message ... Can anyone tell me if they know for sure whether or not metadata is definitvely compromised if it shows the last print date predates a creation date. One would think the answer is yes but i recently deposed a police forensic moonlighting expert who explains away metadata in his report where the last print date precedes the create date in the metadata explaining if you print document 1 on day 1 and send it to another computer on day 5 and rename the document or otherwise revise it but do not print it the last date of day 1 appears in the metadata of a new document showing a creation date of day 5. The defendant and my client the plaintiff are at odds with a court on possible perjury over who tampered with documents and I think the metadata shows conclusive tampering but the defendant's expert says he recreated this hypothetical which i could not nor could my IT person. Anyone help me on this! it is very important to my client? thanks. -- Jeff G. |
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You cannot use metadata to *prove* anything. The various dates stored in
metadata can easily be changed using Word's own script editor. You would have to show corroborative evidence to show that the metadata had been tampered with. You can even add a print date when the document hasn't been printed. The Metropolitan Police in London has an excellent computer crime section. They may be willing to advise what is currently possible in the way of forensic disc analysis, but this would require the disc from the computer on which the document was allegedly created. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org IPlawyertoo wrote: Can anyone tell me if they know for sure whether or not metadata is definitvely compromised if it shows the last print date predates a creation date. One would think the answer is yes but i recently deposed a police forensic moonlighting expert who explains away metadata in his report where the last print date precedes the create date in the metadata explaining if you print document 1 on day 1 and send it to another computer on day 5 and rename the document or otherwise revise it but do not print it the last print date of day 1 appears in the metadata of a new document showing a creation date of day 5. The defendant and my client the plaintiff are at odds with a court on possible perjury over who tampered with documents and I think the metadata shows conclusive tampering but the defendant's expert says he recreated this hypothetical which i could not nor could my IT person. Anyone help me on this! it is very important to my client? thanks. |
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