Document Management System

Would Metadata Cleaning Spoil Your Evidence?

May 03, 2012 / in Blog / by Zafar Khan, RPost CEO

In Dr. Ball’s blog, he smartly notes: “Application metadata resides within the file and moves with the file, not changing unless the contents of the file are altered. System metadata resides outside the file and can be altered without impacting the contents of the file. Hashing the file hashes its contents, not information about the file. That is, you only hash what’s stored inside the file, not its system metadata.” He also […]