You are unlikely to get one Wizardry47, and if you want a further shock from the research I have been conducting over the last three years, SIM readers and handset readers are potentially going to be out of date fairly soon, based upon that which most examiners may currently be using.
does that mean that instead of trying to get the information about of the physical devices they will just subpoena records? to my knowledge, the only way to obtain information contained in a devices memory is to read it, without hardware/software isnt that going to be kind of hard?
If you would, could you elaborate a little? Here in the states its just becoming more prevalent to use this kind of technology for investigative purposes. I know over in Europe in general the trend has been going for a while and i would expect to see some progression, but here we are quite a bit behind in terms of that arena. It would be helpful to know where the field is going to eventually end up.
does that mean that instead of trying to get the information about of the physical devices they will just subpoena records? to my knowledge, the only way to obtain information contained in a devices memory is to read it, without hardware/software isnt that going to be kind of hard?
If you would, could you elaborate a little? Here in the states its just becoming more prevalent to use this kind of technology for investigative purposes. I know over in Europe in general the trend has been going for a while and i would expect to see some progression, but here we are quite a bit behind in terms of that arena. It would be helpful to know where the field is going to eventually end up.
No I don't mean extracting and harvesting data from devices will end, but that the current devices we use to do the extracting and harvesting will be out of date.
For example, mobile 'phone browsers are a good example; where personal data are held within the browser security. Can you think of a forensic reader device that will/can reveal that data?
How about user installed personalised apps on the handset, where phonebooks and call history are held within the personalised app. Memory PIM under these circumstances can become a thing of the past.
Commonly six of the eight contacts are being used for SIM/USIM, this will change where all eight contacts will be used - but provide different function per card or selectable multi-functions per card. The latter is a huge step forward and none of the forensic readers "appear" to have the capability to cope with those changes.
These are examples of just some of the changes coming up.
Thanks for the information, I had wondered if there were any applications out there that dealt with the internet caches on phones that support that. Being in the states we are quite far behind on all of this, hence the reason i joined this forum community. Basically I'm still finding out whats good and what isn't.
Once again thank you for the speedy response.
i have a documentation about "Forensic examination of the RIM - Blackberry.pdf" if you want ! Send me a MP if u want it
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