Linux tool speeds up police computer forensics (ZDNet)

What evidence do we have that the vendor actually undertook non-trivial 
efforts?  Until and unless their changes are reviewed, and until and 
unless those reviews are obtained, digested, and acted upon by the 
purchasing agents for the police departments, the profit margin will be 
higher if they didn't.  If a defense lawyer actually invokes discovery to 
see what's really going on, the winning strategy might just be to fold up 
shop and leave prosecutors holding the bag.

Boom--the engineering effort is practically nil in this scenario.

The best way to know for sure is to have a look at the modifications they 
made in source form.