The FBI's front and center problems:
Washington Post piece on FBI evidence handling: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/20/us/politics/fbi-evidence-keeping-criticized.html?_r=0
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Washington Post piece on unwound convictions from agent mishandling of evidence: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/fbi-agent-in-misconduct-case-may-have-tampered-with-drugs-guns-documents-say/2014/11/05/b77fd50e-6440-11e4-bb14-4cfea1e742d5_story.html
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60 minutes did a Report on this very topic some years ago.
http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/crime_labs_under_the_microscope_after_a_string_of_shoddy_suspect_and_fraudu/
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IG Report on Crime Lab Abuse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwBaEvXpTw0
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Sentinel software [a Lockheed Martin company]problems at the FBI: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/19/us/19fbi.html
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Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Standards and Guidelines: Recommendations & Guidelines for the Use of Digital Image Processing in the Criminal Justice System [Scientific Working Group on Imaging Technologies (SWGIT) Version 1.2, June 2002 http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/lab/forensic-science-communications/fsc/jan2003/index.htm/swgitdigital.htm]
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Windows(c) XP still used by law enforcement, despite:
PoliticoPro article “Microsoft XP’s Massive Cybersecurity Problem”by Shaun Waterman http://www.politico.com/story/2014/04/microsoft-xp-cybersecurity-problem-105451.html]
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Microsoft Support Document for Windows XP [http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324720]
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Microsoft’s Support Document MS03-024 entitled “Buffer Overrun in Windows could
lead to data corruption” [http://support.microsoft.com/kb/817606]
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Data Integrity Problems being researched:
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Authentication of Digital Video Evidence” by Nicholas, et al [internet posted study] alwww.jhuapl.edu/ott/technologies/featuredtech/DVA/DVA.pdf]
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“Evaluating Software Degradation through Entropy” by Alessandro Bianchi,
at al [Dipartimento di Informatica – Università di Bari Via Orabona, 4, 70126
Bari – Italy [http://www.di.uniba.it/~lanubile/papers/metrics2001b.pdf]
{Bianchi, Caivano, Lanubile, Visaggio}@di.uniba.it
“Digital Tape Preservation Strategy: Preserving Data or Video?” by David Rice etal
(Dec 2, 2009)[http://www.avpreserve.com/dvanalyzer/dv-preservation-data-or-video]
