«You accidentally deleted an important file from your iPhone, panicked, and hit the web looking for a way to get it back. Instantly, you’re hit with a barrage of search results pushing “iPhone data recovery” software. If you look closely, you’ll notice almost all of these apps are low-quality rebrands or slightly tweaked forks of […]»

28 July, 2026Oleg Afonin

«Microsoft Office has protected documents with passwords since Word 2.0 in 1991, and for most of that history the protection was weaker than stated. The word “password” in Office covers two completely different things. One is encryption, and it can be strong. The other is a flag that tells the application to refuse an edit, […]»

27 July, 2026Oleg Afonin

«A forensic report is not a summary of finished work. It’s a claim that has to survive someone trying to take it apart, and most reports aren’t built for that. A lot of what gets filed today is automated tool output with a cover letter attached: the examiner runs a parser, exports a spreadsheet, writes […]»

24 July, 2026Oleg Afonin