And what if you ask the defendant for a PIN number for his iPad? Isn't that "someone asking someone for some information and then that person just using that information"? How would you go about testing and validating that info before using it on the exhibit? )
Is a digital forensic investigator normally ever in contact with the defendant? 😯
More likely a "generic" officer would ask that, and scribble it somewhere and thus there is even an intermediate passage (beside - in some cases - the need to interpret the officers' handwriting).
I don't think ? that any device has (besides an unlock/access PIN or password) a self-destroy code idea , in that case methods of validation of the info before using it on the exhibit would become extremely interesting … 😉
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