In Season 8, Episode 10 of "The Simpsons" — an episode parodying the popular 1990s sci-fi thriller "The X-Files" — Homer Simpson is being questioned by two federal agents at a police station. "This is ...

It used to be that the most feared instrument in the arsenal of a police investigator was the polygraph, or lie detector machine. Now the most feared thing might be a simple microphone and a laptop ...