Today’s vehicles are rolling data sources. They can record data like location history, connected phones, and system activity that helps place people, devices, and actions at key moments in an investigation.
I have spent a lot of time thinking about the places where digital forensics actually happens and not just where it is supposed to happen.
Modern vehicles contain a wealth of forensic evidence, but legacy solutions make accessing it too time-consuming, too risky, and too likely to damage the vehicle to be practical for many agencies. As vehicle infotainment systems grow more sophisticated, the value of that data — and the challenge of reaching it — only increases.
