Not real enough to keep

A client asked us to confirm five screenshots were genuine. They weren't, and the honest answer meant starting again.

What we found

One of our case studies is for Witnessed, an app that seals a photograph against tampering the moment it's taken. Its own screenshots looked convincing: a real status bar, real device chrome, real-looking UI. Asked to confirm they came from the running app, we checked properly rather than assuming, and found that every one of them was a mockup built to look like a screenshot. No photo, no device, no app behind any of them.

What we did about it

We found the real project, built it, and ran it on the actual devices the images claimed to show. Where the app genuinely couldn't do something (a simulator has no camera, so a live capture wasn't reachable), we said so rather than working around it quietly. The five screens that replaced the old set show exactly what the app produces: a real SHA-256 hash, a real timestamp, a real verified badge, nothing composed afterwards.

Why it was worth doing properly

A case study is our own claim about our own work. It doesn't get to be the one thing on this site that goes unchecked. We corrected the record rather than swapping the images quietly, because what we'd written before was wrong, and said so.