Forensic bomb

A forensic bomb is a type of device used to delay or fully halt forensic investigations by means of information overload. Forensic bombs are an automated means of obfuscating certain information in a given area by planting excessive amounts of plausible and misleading information. Typically they are used to hide the identities of people who have traversed an area by spraying or clouding an area around them in genetic matter, fingerprints and other recognizeable smudges, chemical signatures, debris, etc. The relative ease of deploying a forensic bomb or two compared to the difficulty of a person existing in a space without leaving traces makes forensic bombs especially attractive to state- and criminal users. Technology used in forensic bombs sees frequent mundane use in e.g. agriculture, for more precise seeding & pollination, and thus mundane equipment is a common source of makeshift forensic bombs retrofitted to their original purpose.

While many forensic bombs are designed to be disposable, the term also typically encompasses multiple-use devices.