[sleuthkit-users] Examiner Phone/Email in Autopsy Cases?

[Brian C. <ca...@sl...>]

Do people fill in examiner phone & email when making a case?   Or, could it
go away and no one would care?

Background to Question:

Currently, when you make a case in Autopsy, the wizard will allow you to
enter optional information about examiner name, phone, email address, etc.

To better support some features in a multi-user environment, we are
starting to automatically record what user made tags, used Image Gallery,
etc. based on the OS login.   We are going to start recording this info in
the DB.

This led us to question the examiner-related metadata info in the Case
Wizard that gets stored outside of the DB. It's obviously easy for us to
pre-populate the examiner  name based on the OS login so that it is
consistent.  But, it made me question the value of the other fields (phone
& email).

There are three options:
- Change nothing and force everyone to enter the info each time (which is
not very efficient)
- Start to store the phone & email so that it gets pre-populated for each
case (which is not hard, but it is a waste of engineering time if no one
actually cares)
- Stop recording it since its value is questionable in a multi-user case.

Opinions?