Vaki further elaborated, on page 1103 that: "Digital evidence is more vulnerable to forgery, since it is the digital technology that creates and sustains it that allows, in many cases, forgery and alteration at a very high level, which cannot be noticed by the naked eye. At the same time, it is explained that this deficiency relates only to the level of peshat, since as for deeper levels of inquiry, the opposite is true. This is due to information known as "frame data" or "metadata" that characterizes the digital evidence. In many ways, it creates the distinction between digital evidence and other evidence. "Framework data" means all data that contains information about a file that is not the essential content of the file. This is data that surrounds the details of the file and not its content. They include, for example, the date the file was created, the date it was changed (if modified), the identity of the computer that created the file, the weight of the file, the date the file was sent or received, the name of the sending computer and the name of the receiving computer, the opening and closing times of the file, and more. This data is contained in or linked to a file. For the most part, this data is exposed to the user, and sometimes it is not possible to access the frame data except through special software.
Metadata is of great importance for the purpose of the judicial process. In some cases, the content of the digital vision without the accompanying frame data may lose its value. Thus, for example, records and text messages without frame data, such as the time the message was sent and the name of the sender and receiver, greatly reduce the evidentiary value of the contents of the record. In other cases, the frame data is the evidence needed in the trial... The information provided by the frame data is similar in a certain sense to forensic evidence such as DNA, fingerprints, and the like - a kind of 'clues' left behind without the knowledge of the person who left them." [My emphases L.B.].