A court-admissible FAT32 investigation, byte by byte

A FAT32 USB image examined the way a court requires — no GUI shortcuts, every claim tied to raw bytes: recovering a deleted JPEG, and catching four files wearing the wrong extension.

May 30, 2026 · 5 min · Kartik Sankhla

The file we couldn't recover: an ext3 deleted-file investigation

A user created five files and deleted some. Recovering them from an ext3 image meant Trash artifacts, orphan inodes full of GNOME metadata — and proving why one file was gone for good.

May 30, 2026 · 6 min · Kartik Sankhla

Hello, and what this site is

A short note on what I’ll be writing about here.

May 29, 2026 · 1 min · Kartik Sankhla