Technology Developed to Determine Date of Illegally Filmed Material... Supreme Prosecutors' Office Selects Outstanding Investigators

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[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Hyung-min] On the 29th, the Supreme Prosecutors' Office announced that five investigators, including So Byeong-min, who developed a new technology to determine the creation date of illegally filmed video files, were selected as 'Outstanding Forensic Examiners' for the first half of the year.

Investigator So developed a technology that estimates the storage location reset by video deletion and restores 'metadata' such as the file creation time while investigating cases under the Sexual Violence Punishment Act (illegal filming). This technology contributed to identifying the time of the suspect's crime and recognizing additional criminal facts, and it has been registered as a national patent.

Researcher Eom Tae-hee of the Supreme Prosecutors' Office was recognized for his contribution to clarifying that the substance of the case was murder, not injury resulting in death, by participating in the investigation of a prisoner death at Gongju Prison last year, collecting 726 samples from chopstick weapons, paper clubs, and bloodstains in the prison living room, and conducting precise DNA analysis.

Also, Investigator Park Chun-ho of the Seoul Northern District Prosecutors' Office was selected as an outstanding examiner for securing evidence of unauthorized access crimes through digital forensics of a server about 140 gigabytes (GB) in size, and Investigator Choi Jae-dong of the Supreme Prosecutors' Office was recognized for analyzing the computer of a PR agency representative who reported to the media that "macro programs were used during the general election to raise the search ranking of articles related to a specific candidate," revealing that some of the reported content was false.

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