Live From the MSAB Digital Summit 2026!

About this episode

The episode discusses the importance of understanding artifacts in digital forensics and how to avoid misinterpretation in court cases.

Send us Fan Mail Tool output can look authoritative while still being dangerously easy to misread, and we’ve both seen how fast that goes sideways when a case hits court. Live from the MSAB Digital Summit 2026, we walk through a simple principle that saves careers: an artifact is a clue, not a conclusion. We talk about how “artifact worship” happens, how to build real corroboration, and why multiple records on the same phone are not automatically multiple lines of evidence. We also get hones...

People in this episode

Hosts: Heather Charpentier, Alexis "Brigs" Brignoni

Topics covered

• digital forensics
• evidence analysis
• court cases
• artifact interpretation
• corroboration

Keywords

• digital summit
• artifact worship
• evidence
• corroboration
• forensics

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: MSAB

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