A security weakness in technology used by most U.S. crime labs to analyze DNA evidence exposed 30 years of case files to potential hacking, according to computer scientists who discovered the vulnerability.
The Wall Street Journal reports that the researchers found that with the help of computer code written by widely available AI software, they could alter data produced from computerized scans of physical DNA evidence without leaving any trace of tampering. The vulnerability likely existed in digital files produced by crime lab machines since 1995, but recent technological advances make potential tampering much easier now, they said.
Laura Gaydosh Combs, a forensic scientist and University of New Haven professor...
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