Software expert testifies
After Paul, Ian Whiffin took the stand as the prosecution’s 65th witness against Read.
Whiffin is a decoding product manager and former senior digital intelligence expert at Cellebrite, which makes forensic software.
Whiffin examined a search sent by Jennifer McCabe, who has been a focus of questioning from Read’s defense team.
McCabe was at the party at the Albert house the night O’Keefe died and at one point searched “Hos long to die in cold?” on the morning of Jan. 29.
The defense has argued McCabe made the search at 2:27 a.m., hours before O’Keefe’s body was found. McCabe said she made the search later in the day at the urging of Read after Read spotted O’Keefe in the snow.
Whiffin said the search happened at 6:23 a.m., saying “There’s plenty of other evidence” to show him what was going on.
At the time the defense claims the search happened, Whiffin said, McCabe was actually looking up youth sports schedules. Prosecutors said McCabe was home at the time, hours before she learned O’Keefe was missing.
Digital forensic expert Jessica Hyde previously told jurors McCabe’s search could have been timestamped at 2:27 a.m., rather than 6:23 a.m., because that was the time when she first opened the tab where she made the search.
Whiffin on Monday said, if Safari is minimized and operating in the background, time stamps are not updated and searches done hours or days later on the same tab can show a previous timestamp.
Whiffin said McCabe was on WiFi looking at sports schedules at 2:27 a.m. Hours later, she used the same Safari tab to look up information about hypothermia. Whiffin said the subsequent search was logged with the older timestamp.
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JUNE 17, 2024