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- 0:01Join former FBI Senior Forensic Examiners Becky Passmore and
- 0:05Stacey Eldridge as they dig into the world of digital forensics
- 0:08one bite at a time. Now leading their own consulting
- 0:11firms and educating the next generation of cyber sleuths,
- 0:14these badass babes of digital forensics bring sharp insight,
- 0:18real world case experience, and a dose of humor to the bits and
- 0:21bites that filled today's investigations.
- 0:23From deep dives into business e-mail compromise and ransomware
- 0:26attacks, Becky's specialty to cracking the complexities of
- 0:29iPhone forensics, Stacy's obsession, this podcast delivers
- 0:33insider knowledge for professionals, students, and
- 0:36true crime techies alike. If you've ever wondered what
- 0:39really happens when the digital trail is all that's left, TuneIn
- 0:42and start parsing the truth. Hello everybody and welcome back
- 0:53to Parsing the Truth One Bite at a Time.
- 0:56I'm your Co host, Stacey Eldridge and as always, I am
- 1:00joined by the brilliant Becky Passport.
- 1:03Hey, Becky. Hey, welcome back everyone.
- 1:06Glad to see everyone again so. We are doing something
- 1:09unscheduled tonight. We were planning not to do this.
- 1:13You know, it was not the plan to do this, much like it was not
- 1:15the plan to do this the first time.
- 1:17So what are we not planning to talk about tonight, Becky?
- 1:20Well. Not planning to talk about
- 1:23Epstein, but we're going to jump on the bandwagon again.
- 1:26Yep, once again, we're jumping on the bandwagon.
- 1:28On September 2nd, the House Committee on Oversight and
- 1:32Government Reform released 33,295 pages of Epstein related
- 1:39records and those were provided by the Justice Department.
- 1:42We went out hunting after some prompting from some people to
- 1:46look and see if we can find any more Epstein prison videos and
- 1:51what luck we did find some more prison videos.
- 1:54So we are going to walk you through everything that we've
- 1:59found. We've got a lot of nice things
- 2:01here to show tonight. So if it's one of those times
- 2:03where you want to see where we're talking, talking about,
- 2:06you can watch us on Spotify or you can head on over to YouTube
- 2:10and watch us and we'll try to talk you through everything.
- 2:13But sometimes it's just nice to have those visuals.
- 2:17We looked around in the Google Drive link that was provided in
- 2:21that press release from the committee and everything is in
- 2:24Google Drive. There was a nice folder called
- 2:27Natives that kind of stood out to me.
- 2:29So I jumped through there and I started looking as much like I
- 2:34do in any case for the outliers. I started looking out for the
- 2:39big videos and then I kind of saw right away that those were
- 2:43relevant prison videos. And then I looked, checked out
- 2:47the rest of that folder and found some more prison videos.
- 2:51Becky and I downloaded all of those files and I will go ahead
- 2:55and start sharing my screen now. What I found interesting is that
- 3:00these weren't called raw data files.
- 3:03These weren't even released as raw data files.
- 3:06They were released as natives, which can indicate more original
- 3:11based versus the very first time they were released.
- 3:16They were actually called raw video, raw image files,
- 3:20something like that effect, and we said these were not, This was
- 3:24a work product. So very interesting for how they
- 3:29labeled them a little differently this time.
- 3:31And I've not really heard any comments from the government
- 3:35saying this is raw or this is native.
- 3:37This is just the name of the folder.
- 3:38So it is what it is. I have seen complaints where
- 3:42people are like, well, there's 33,000 files, how?
- 3:45How are we supposed to know what they are and what this is
- 3:48relevant to? Well, I happen to find a helpful
- 3:52little clue. At the root of that Google Drive
- 3:56is a dot dat file 2025 I've brought up on the screen for you
- 4:01in Notepad++, which is a handy little viewer for trying to make
- 4:06sense of gobbledygook. And I've opened up the 2025 zero
- 4:11822 dot dat. We had the known files that we
- 4:15downloaded. So I started searching for some
- 4:17of those names and lo and behold, I found them.
- 4:21And I was able to see the original file names for not just
- 4:27these video files that we were interested in, but for
- 4:30everything. So if you're trying to make
- 4:32heads and tails of this stuff, you want to head to the Google
- 4:35Drive and download that dot dat file.
- 4:38And I'm going to head back over to our blog post because that
- 4:44has a nice table that we've made where we have the file name of
- 4:48the video as it's presented in the Google Drive, and then we
- 4:51have the original file name. And now Becky is going to walk
- 4:56us through all of these new prison videos that were released
- 5:00on September 2nd. This was interesting that that
- 5:04we had 13 approximately 1 hour segment videos and so we started
- 5:11looking at each one and and how they're labeled here, the video
- 5:14names where they're out of sync. So it starts with ends with 155
- 5:20dot MP4, the next one IS156157158.
- 5:24These were how it was presented to us, but then it skips
- 5:26TO154150, I'm sorry, one 53154 and so on.
- 5:31So it was interesting to start to break it down and look at
- 5:35these videos as what is the time frame that they are associated
- 5:41with. And very much like the original
- 5:44file name that Stacy found in that dot dot file, we see that
- 5:49exactly at 1800, at 1800 on 8/9/2019 all the way through 810
- 6:01of 2019 at 7:00 in the morning, approximately 7:00 in the
- 6:05morning. There is no missing seconds.
- 6:09We have approximately 1 hour to 59 and you know 23 seconds to 59
- 6:16and 51 seconds. All of these files are
- 6:19approximately at the same amount of time, video length.
- 6:22They have original file name associated with them.
- 6:25And then we have a time frame and where one one time frame
- 6:29ends, it picks up within a second.
- 6:32Sometimes it overlapped a couple of times like on a 161 and 162,
- 6:38it started at 3:00 AM and 11:00 seconds.
- 6:43So if you if you follow through with this, you'll see that there
- 6:47is absolutely 0 missing time and they are all consistently
- 6:54provided with the right hours of information and we looked at
- 7:01those. Yeah.
- 7:02So all of these times are in the local time zone, Eastern Time
- 7:07zone. Becky, do you want to kind of
- 7:08talk about some of the visual things that you saw in these 13
- 7:14new files versus what we saw in the big long nearly 11 hour
- 7:20video that was released back in July?
- 7:23In the big videos that we saw that were released in July, we
- 7:27see at the top it it it references a location.
- 7:32I believe it starts with like 160 and it references that
- 7:36location and then in the bottom corner, left hand corner, it had
- 7:42the date and the time and then over in the right hand corner it
- 7:48had the word play like it was following a play, like it was
- 7:52following and watching a video versus these thirteen one hour
- 7:58segments of video. The information is all centered
- 8:04in the bottom of the video. Looking at that it looks more
- 8:13what you would see if you exported or you were looking at
- 8:17it directly on the DVR before it was exported.
- 8:21And so it in my opinion it looks more native and I like that term
- 8:25they use here. Looks more from a level of a DVR
- 8:29viewing. It also has a, I would say much
- 8:33better clarity. Viewing it, it's a it's a little
- 8:37clearer, but at times it could be a little light colored or but
- 8:41the color, the text format and the quality seemed much
- 8:47different. Yeah, it was a bigger and better
- 8:50quality in the videos that were released in July.
- 8:55And if you look at the metadata, you can easily see that it is a
- 8:58much smaller quality in these one hour segments that were
- 9:03released. And but we don't and we'll kind
- 9:06of get into that. But we don't know why the
- 9:09quality is different other than we know for sure that that July
- 9:13video was work product and that would be a logical reason for
- 9:18why they put it into an Adobe product and we're trying to
- 9:22enhance it. And remember with video 2 dot
- 9:25MP4, they did say that this was the enhanced version where they
- 9:29were trying to brighten it and stuff like that.
- 9:31So clearly between what was released September 2nd and in
- 9:35July, there is a difference in video resolution and because one
- 9:40video resolution of of these smaller files is much smaller
- 9:45than that makes for a poor quality video.
- 9:47And so you kind of get to see some of that, we'll call it
- 9:50ghosting, where it's kind of pixelated when there's some
- 9:53movement going on. But we do like the fact that in
- 9:58the video you're seeing at the bottom of the screen the name of
- 10:01the camera and the date and the time stamp in there.
- 10:04That makes us think maybe that this is much more likely that it
- 10:08was exported from the DVR system.
- 10:12We didn't see a mouse right floating through the screen.
- 10:16Yeah. No play and stop and start
- 10:19controls just on that visual review.
- 10:22And then knowing that the resolution is much lower and
- 10:25what we're seeing, it seems much more likely that this is
- 10:28something that came from an actual DVR system.
- 10:33This is not something that has been manipulated or enhanced on
- 10:38first glance. And so as I mentioned, we kind
- 10:42of, you know, we originally found the big stuff and so we
- 10:45knew we had video 1 and video 2 from July.
- 10:49So we wanted to see what other big videos we could find out
- 10:52there. And we found another 220 gig
- 10:57files and they are they end with 1169 and they respectively
- 11:04appear to visually match the videos in July 2025 that were
- 11:09released 168 matches video one where 169 matches video 2.
- 11:16And then of course, when we reviewed that dot file, it did
- 11:21say that those two files came from video one and video 2
- 11:25respectively. Now, of course, we're digital
- 11:28forensic examiner. So my while we do look at stuff
- 11:31with our eyeballs all the time to see what we can see, we also
- 11:35have to dig down more into the data.
- 11:37We did just that. And once again, we use that EXIF
- 11:42tool now. Becky, do you want to talk a
- 11:43little bit about like EXIF and metadata?
- 11:46It's. It's it's a great tool for us to
- 11:49be be able to quickly drop these files into this tool that not
- 11:55only gives us dates and times, but it gives us what it was made
- 11:59with or it could give us a flashpoint.
- 12:02It just gives us more details. And so EXIF tool is one of the
- 12:07tools that we as forensic examiners choose to use to get
- 12:12more in depth metadata about video or a file or a picture.
- 12:18Right. And we use this tool even though
- 12:20we have super expensive forensic tools that we also use because
- 12:26the difference is that expensive Jack of all trades tool can't
- 12:29necessarily do everything at the deep level that we need it to.
- 12:33I think now is a good time to kind of compare and contrast the
- 12:37video one and then the 168 file that was just released.
- 12:43This is all the EXIF data that we extracted.
- 12:45And if you head over to the blog, you can see the command
- 12:47that we ran to get this specific set of data.
- 12:52And I use it with the options to get the most possible data.
- 12:56But you'll hear us refer to some of these QuickTime tags, the
- 13:00track tags. And then if you remember from
- 13:04July, everybody was all up in arms about Adobe, Adobe Media
- 13:10Encoder being seen in there and some other stuff related to
- 13:13Adobe. Well, all of that Adobe
- 13:16information is stored in these XMP tags.
- 13:20And that's where we got all of this Adobe information last
- 13:23time. And I'm just going to scroll
- 13:25through here, but you can see there is a ton of information in
- 13:30here. And for some reason, Adobe uses
- 13:33food references, there's pantry entries, there's ingredients,
- 13:38all of that good stuff. And this is also where we saw
- 13:41the names of some other files that were the ingredients that
- 13:46were used to make video one. But the, but the nice thing
- 13:51that's in here, lots of great date and time stamps, you know,
- 13:54we see the created and modified dates and the XMP tags of, of
- 14:00May 23rd of this year starting, you know, at 7:00 PM and some
- 14:06modification happening at 8:15 PM.
- 14:10And we see some of those time stamps throughout.
- 14:13But when we move over to 168, which was made from video 1
- 14:20based on that dot DAT file, we're going to see something
- 14:24different and we'll get into why it's different as well.
- 14:28But here you can see it's kind of starting off the same.
- 14:31You've got your system information, you've got some
- 14:33QuickTime tags. It still says the same modified
- 14:37and created information here as well.
- 14:41It's still matching for the tracks and stuff like that.
- 14:45So that looks good. But as we're continuing to
- 14:47Scroll down, the XMP data is gone, right?
- 14:53Becky, do you want to talk about how we know that happened and
- 14:57why it happened? It's an informed, educated
- 15:00conclusion based on on what we have.
- 15:03When a when a another program such as an E discovery tool is
- 15:08used to extract the data or booze other videos to create the
- 15:15data, it will strip that metadata.
- 15:18So it's going to strip that XMP data off of there because of the
- 15:22ediscovery tool. And so that is where we have
- 15:26come to the conclusion that the XMP tags that contain that Adobe
- 15:32information in Video one are now absent.
- 15:35Yep. And we based this on the fact
- 15:37that we saw that dot dot file that had all the original file
- 15:41names and then the new file names in the file pass.
- 15:44There's also a dot OPT file in there well as well that gives
- 15:49similar information. And both of those files together
- 15:51is indicative of some sort of E discovery tool being used to
- 15:56process the files. And when we say process the
- 15:59files, we mean just basically like renaming them because when
- 16:03you're doing discovery, it's just like going in and out and
- 16:06organizing it into folders and stuff like that.
- 16:08So we don't know what E discovery tool was used.
- 16:12We don't know what any of the settings were.
- 16:15We don't know if this happens every time with the E discovery
- 16:18tool that was used or if this was a special setting that was
- 16:21used. But for whatever reason, there
- 16:25are there are no more of these XMP tags.
- 16:28But we can see from the dot dot file that it did come from video
- 16:33one. That's right.
- 16:34And then Becky, what else also happened because the metadata is
- 16:40now different between video one and then the new file 168?
- 16:45We hashed the original video one and video 2 that was released in
- 16:49July and then we hashed these videos 169 and 168 and that hash
- 16:56value changed and that's due to the metadata being stripped as
- 17:00well. Yep, absolutely.
- 17:02So that's again why it's important to hash files all the
- 17:04time. I wish again they would give us
- 17:06hashes so we know we're downloading, because once again,
- 17:09in this Google Drive, hashes are notably absent.
- 17:12Right, right, so we hashed them all and have something to
- 17:16compare it to. Yep.
- 17:17So we have our hashes and we will get them up on the blog.
- 17:21So if you're downloading stuff and want to check and compare,
- 17:23you can compared to us as well. So we have the EXIF data from
- 17:27the 168 file and the video 1 and you can see how the created
- 17:32times from the QuickTime tags and the modified times still
- 17:35match. The duration still match.
- 17:38But for whatever reason, 1 is in like hour, minute, second, then
- 17:41the other one is in this goofy Adobe time.
- 17:44But anyways, they they both do equal the 10 hours, 52 minutes
- 17:49and 24 seconds. That's right.
- 17:51Now, we also went through all of the 13 files that Becky was
- 17:55talking about and reviewed their metadata as well.
- 18:00So let me pull up one of those to share with you.
- 18:03So this is 154 and this is the one that starts at 11:00 PM and
- 18:10goes all the way through to midnight.
- 18:13And we'll talk about the words all the way through to midnight
- 18:17in a minute. But you can see that this one
- 18:20starts off the same, but the there's not a whole lot of
- 18:25valuable information in in this EXIF data that we were able to
- 18:29retrieve. Now this file has a modification
- 18:32date of time of August 4th, 2025.
- 18:35That is most likely when the file was outputted slash created
- 18:41through the use of that E discovery tool that recent date.
- 18:47But if you continue to Scroll down under the QuickTime tags,
- 18:51we don't have any create or modified dates here.
- 18:55Same thing with the tracks. There's not really any clues in
- 18:59here as to what created this file.
- 19:06That's right. And so, Becky, you know, we kind
- 19:08of talked about it like why do we think this metadata is here
- 19:12like that? The tool that the tool that was
- 19:14used to export it or the tool that was used to create these
- 19:19files so that they were pulled directly likely from the DVR for
- 19:24them to be viewed. So in doing so it it only gives
- 19:28us partial information, the one hour segment files as you
- 19:32mentioned that file system. Right.
- 19:34And we don't, we know the DVR system was old.
- 19:37It was scheduled to be replaced. And let's remember, this is 2019
- 19:40and it was already old. So we don't know the brand or
- 19:44anything like that. So that could certainly account
- 19:46for the lack of metadata being embedded within the files
- 19:50themselves. And it certainly could account
- 19:52for the low quality of the videos themselves when you watch
- 19:56them and that the resolutions, you know, we don't know if they
- 19:59selected it to be small video. We don't know if they selected
- 20:04to have no EXIF data. We don't.
- 20:06There's lots of things we don't know.
- 20:08Right, right. And what we don't know is are
- 20:11these with raw files? And why don't we know that?
- 20:14Why don't we know if these are the raw files?
- 20:18And basically, we don't know it because there's very little
- 20:21metadata to be associated with it.
- 20:23It's been run through that ediscovery tool.
- 20:26Again, stripping off more information, because if we at
- 20:29least had the original files before they were ran through
- 20:34that ediscovery tool, we definitely might have more
- 20:37metadata. But then we could also have some
- 20:39more dates and times, some created and modified dates and
- 20:43times, you know, and we would be wanting those to be back in 2019
- 20:48when they first got that DVR system.
- 20:52Exactly the old DVR system. Absolutely that old.
- 20:55DVR system. Now earlier I hinted that the
- 21:00file 154 goes all the way through midnight.
- 21:04Becky, why is it so interesting that I'm saying the file goes
- 21:08all the way through until midnight?
- 21:11Well, because. On the two videos that we
- 21:15analyzed that came out in July, there was a time stamp on the
- 21:22video that stops at 115858 and starts at 12 is.
- 21:31That a missing minute. That was a missing minute and
- 21:34two seconds of something missing minute and two seconds.
- 21:37However, from our analysis this 8/9/2019 goes to 235959 which
- 21:46covers that one minute and two second time frame.
- 21:52So we have found the missing minute.
- 21:55We did we. Found no longer lost.
- 21:58It was. It was never lost to a system
- 22:00reboot. Yes, and it clearly there is 0
- 22:04system reboot that occurs here. File continues 154.
- 22:11The file that ends with 154 dot MP4 ends at 235959 and guess
- 22:18what 160 starts at 235959 and continues on until 111 AM in the
- 22:28morning. So we have clearly seen there is
- 22:320 reboot and how the data was pulled out and off of this DVR
- 22:38is 0 seconds or missing. And it still kind of goes back
- 22:42to what we talked about in July. Why was it called RAW Files?
- 22:48Who said that? And it's also now we're asking
- 22:52what is the origin of this system reboot?
- 22:56We all know Miss Bondi said it in to the media, but we don't
- 23:01know why she said it. Did somebody tell her it was a
- 23:05missing minute due to a system reboot?
- 23:06What is the origin of the missing minute and the system
- 23:11reboot story? No, no idea.
- 23:13No idea. No idea if presented the videos
- 23:18that we analyzed in July and the only conclusion the person who
- 23:24was analyzing or presenting the material to Bondi was that it
- 23:31must have been it had to have been in fact, I want to say I
- 23:34heard on the news that it Bureau of Prisons said there is a
- 23:40reboot every night and that is where that one minute and two
- 23:43seconds. So that information was relayed
- 23:45to her and she related to the media without a full analysis as
- 23:50analysis of all 13 one hour segments.
- 23:55And this is what happens when you start concatenating files
- 23:59together and then you're you're starting one file, you're ending
- 24:03another file, you're starting one file and you're ending
- 24:06another file. They come together and then
- 24:08missing data. It appears that data is missing
- 24:11and there's no data missing. Nope.
- 24:13There's a time frame there's. No missing minutes anymore.
- 24:16Becky accounted for all the minutes and seconds and all
- 24:19those 13 video segments. Let's let's talk about what
- 24:24happens in that missing minute. I know Becky, you were going
- 24:27through that with a fine tune tooth comb.
- 24:30Give us the details on that missing minute.
- 24:32So what what was found to be different was there is movement
- 24:36again there is movement by guards.
- 24:39That is that when that 115858 stops on the one video one, it
- 24:47stops and picks up at 12. You don't see any activity.
- 24:51But during the time frame that you watch in the one hour
- 24:56segments, you actually see more activity.
- 25:00You see a guard stepping away from the guard desk and walking
- 25:04off scene towards a doorway or a cell area.
- 25:08And then you see that guard come back and come back up the stair
- 25:12where stairwell where you also pick that up on the video number
- 25:17one, right. So we do see movement.
- 25:20Yeah, yeah, so is and it and it was almost towards the end of
- 25:27the August 9th. It was towards the end of 1159 I
- 25:31think it was like, you know, it depends where you want to count
- 25:34the the movement from about 44 seconds, 45 seconds.
- 25:38So like maybe 15 seconds left in the day.
- 25:40This is where you see the cards start to move kind of at an
- 25:43angle. And again, it's not high
- 25:45quality. You kind of got some of that
- 25:46ghosting stuff going on. So it's hard to tell, but it's
- 25:50definitely a person moving towards the corner of the screen
- 25:54and they're going kind of off towards where where the entrance
- 25:57to the prison cells were. But then you see him reappear.
- 26:03Oh, do you remember about what time it was like 12 O 1:00 AM
- 26:06and how many? Seconds.
- 26:08Yes, it was. It was all the way into the next
- 26:11video of 160 where it was definitely within a minute of
- 26:19that that midnight time frame. Yeah, and you see him walk back
- 26:23onto frame downstairs because remember the cameras like
- 26:28upstairs in the stairwell. So you see him come back into
- 26:31frame downstairs and then, you know, you lose him.
- 26:35But then he pops up at the top of the stairs, he walks across
- 26:38straight in front of the video and then he goes to use the
- 26:41phone to get out of there and he's leaving the floor through
- 26:45that door in the stairwell by 12O2, 02 AM on the 10th.
- 26:50That's right. So he, he was always in there
- 26:52after midnight. It's just that one minute that
- 26:55was missing at 11:59 PM. He's in there for 1415 seconds
- 27:00and that was never there before. That's right.
- 27:02That's right. We found the missing minute.
- 27:05We've got 13 new files, but Becky and I have concluded we
- 27:10are still missing 2 videos. Two video files.
- 27:14That's right. We feel like we're getting so
- 27:16close, right? Like everybody was pretty
- 27:18excited in July, All right? They've released the Epstein gel
- 27:21video. Then there was a minute missing.
- 27:24Now we've got 13 more videos. We've got a minute back, but now
- 27:29we're still missing 2 video files.
- 27:31And why are why do we say that we are still missing 2 video
- 27:35files? Stacy this.
- 27:36Comes back from all of that EXIF data that we reviewed in video
- 27:42one dot video one dot MP4. Remember the Adobe stuff listed
- 27:46all of the ingredients. And so there were two videos
- 27:51that were the ingredients and they had file names that were
- 27:55named after dates and times. They were 2025-05-22MP4 and then
- 28:0425 or yeah and then 2025-05-2216-305-21 dot MP4.
- 28:16And so if if you couldn't track all that in your head, I don't
- 28:20blame you. But basically what it's supposed
- 28:21to be doing is like on one video was probably created on May
- 28:2822nd, 2025, beginning at 9:00 PM in the evening, probably a local
- 28:35time. This is probably when either the
- 28:38screen capture was started or when it ended.
- 28:42And then the same for the other one.
- 28:43The other one would have been started earlier at 4:00 in the
- 28:47afternoon. And because we know that the
- 28:50video is nearly 11 hours long, we would expect these two videos
- 28:55combined together to equal almost 11 hours long.
- 29:00But maybe they account for 13 hours because all of these 13
- 29:04videos equals 13 hours of video. So maybe those two equal more.
- 29:11Now, Becky, why do we want these two video files?
- 29:14Believe these two video files are going to help us to answer
- 29:17why the time frame was started at 7:40 PM when we clearly have
- 29:25video that goes back to 6:00 PM or 1800.
- 29:30So we have video that goes back to 1800 on 8/9 of 2019 all the
- 29:36way through 810 on 20/19 at 7:00 AM in the morning.
- 29:42The time of these videos, Video one and Video 2, they start at
- 29:497:40 PM and they end at 6:40 AM. We clearly have more data that
- 29:57can be before and more data that can be after.
- 30:01But why are these specific videos used and why do they
- 30:06start at a specific time? Why is it stopping at 115858 and
- 30:12then starting at midnight and then ending at 6:40?
- 30:16And is this 2 files that these two files were chosen and
- 30:21because they were concatenated together that 115858 and the
- 30:2612:00 are two? You know, is where one video
- 30:30stops and one video starts. And because of that, these two
- 30:34video files would help answer more questions.
- 30:37Yeah. And one of the questions it
- 30:38could answer was, was the missing minute in either one of
- 30:43these two files? And then of course, there's
- 30:46additional questions because if it was in there, then the next
- 30:49question is why was it cut? And then if it wasn't in there,
- 30:53the next question is why wasn't it in there?
- 30:55So as a digital forensic examiner, we're used to this.
- 30:59We get one answer and then we always have more questions.
- 31:02This is just how it works as you're going down the rabbit
- 31:05hole of digital evidence. And just trying to understand
- 31:08all these time frames and these videos.
- 31:10And clearly we, we talk about time, we talk about dates, we
- 31:15talk about metadata. And we, we, we want to focus on
- 31:20the facts. We're, we're here to tell you
- 31:22the truth. And, and we got closer with the
- 31:25video, with the videos that were downloaded and dropped yesterday
- 31:30and released yesterday. But now we still haven't, we
- 31:33still have questions. We still have a few more
- 31:35questions. We say we would like all of the
- 31:38original 13 video files before they've been run through the
- 31:42processing tool or the ediscovery tool, whatever they
- 31:46they've used. We'd like to see that and we'd
- 31:48like to see those two files that were the ingredients for video
- 31:52one and video 2. So I don't know if those will
- 31:56ever come out. I've, we've been busy working on
- 31:59this, so we've not been tracking the news to see what the current
- 32:03uproar is about what they've released.
- 32:06I know yesterday a lot of what I saw was there's so many files,
- 32:09how can we make sense of it? Well, we've given you the clue.
- 32:11There is a dot dot file. Take a look at that for the file
- 32:14names. Now, not all of the file names
- 32:17are meaningful, but some of them are.
- 32:19Helpful. And again, it goes back to why
- 32:22do you look at metadata? Why do you look at time stamps?
- 32:25Why do you build a timeline? Why do you, why do you analyze
- 32:29it at the level that you analyze it?
- 32:31Why is it important to have more closely related raw files?
- 32:35These, these, these are very closely related to raw files.
- 32:39The only thing missing is that stripped metadata that would say
- 32:44when they were actually created. As far as that goes in in any
- 32:48other details, especially ADVR system, it might tell us more
- 32:52about the DVR system, but. Yeah, it might.
- 32:55It might not. We just don't know.
- 32:57That's right. That's.
- 32:58Right. The more we get, the more we can
- 33:00tell. But the good thing about these
- 33:0213 segment files is that we have second to second noted from
- 33:108/9/2019 to 8/10/2019. Zero seconds missing.
- 33:15Yep, so that is that is a huge win in terms of accountability.
- 33:19Still doesn't look good, but at least the missing minute has
- 33:23been found and is no longer missing.
- 33:26That's right. So with that, until next time,
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