I bet almost every officer who has worked an ICAC case has dealt with MEGA.nz. You send a request for information to MEGA and you are pleasantly surprised at how fast of a response you get. But there is only one problem, You open a MEGA export zip file. Inside, a maze of JSON files—dense, cryptic, and filled with unfamiliar keys like session_details , bsi_timestamp , and outshares . You know there’s valuable information in there like IP addresses, login times, maybe even evidence of links being sent. But parsing it manually? That’s a full day gone. And worse, you still have to make it understandable to someone who’s never seen a JSON file in their life. I decided to build this parser after I saw multiple cases get ignored because the investigators working them got overwhelmed with the information and felt they couldn't understand it. Much less explain it to a jury. If that’s you, you’re not alone. As a law enforcement officer, you don’t have time to become a developer just to de...
