Black boxes are being handed over by "pro-Russian rebels" to the Malaysian authorities. Takes some serious equipment to properly decode the data on the flight data recorder anyway, the NTSB has the best equipment. The cockpit voice recorder is less difficult.
Among other things, they can probably now find out if the flight crew had visual contact with the missile before it hit them (or exploded in their proximity, or whatever)
Tampering is possible, but it's tough to actually manipulate anything without destroying it.
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