Child pornography charges were dropped against a Massachusetts state employee after computer forensics experts determined the images in question were placed on his laptop by a third party. After a month long analysis, experts concluded his computer was compromissed by hackers putting pornographic images  on his drive that were not visible to the naked eye.

The defendant in this case was fired and subsequently charged with possession of child pornography. The charges have since been dismissed.

 Read more: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/general/view.bg?&articleid=1101074

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Here is an interesting article by Craig Ball on Microsoft’s Robocopy and the subtleties of metadata. Apparently, it isn’t as easy as it sounds…

http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1202421750040