How a tip travels: handle evidence safely
The fourth of seven short articles following a tip through the whole life of a program. The third covered investigation.
Handle evidence safely
Section titled “Handle evidence safely”Photos are re-created from scratch before storage, so hidden data — camera GPS, device model, timestamps — does not come along. File types the platform can’t clean reliably are declined, not accepted anyway.
Attachments are locked before they are stored, like the rest of the tip.