Just the fact that this is now public means defense attorneys will use this to raise reasonable doubt.
Technically complex cases are already hard to prosecute and this makes it harder.
Already there have been cases where prosecutors failed to convict because there was a trojan contained in the image of the hard disks entered as evidence. The operator of the trojan could easily have been responsible for data on the disk.
remember that trayvon’s texts couldn’t be entered as evidence because the judge could not be sure he was the one that typed and sent them, on his own phone.
Another good reason to scrub-and-reinstall...
I should look into virtual machines more.