Hi Guys,
I have a case involving facebook involving to two parties chatting with each other. One of the individuals message defaming material to the other individual and now the parent of the individual wants to to prosecute the other.
I have looked at Cacheback;however, the budget is a bit limited as of now. I was wondering if anyone has experience or knows of a free tool or method that can recover facebook chat sessions in an easy to read form.
This is the Cacheback tool;however, the budget is limited in terms of purchasing.
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You can't afford $40 to do the 30 day trial and get what you need?
I'm not recommending the product or any other product, but it seems that's a likely solution.
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Regards,
IF the data is still online, you can use an evidence-capture tool, such as WebPreserver. Note, it's not only about if you can gather the evidence – Will the evidence be accepted by the courts? Make sure you can authenticate the evidence; collect metadata, timestamps, digital signatures (if applicable).
Is there any complete reference regarding Facebook crime investigation steps?
Just a question, have any of you who continually ask for tools ever considered writing the tools yourself? Most webpages (including facebook chat) can be saved as HTML or TEXT which allows you to parse the data.
There are 3 tags to look out for
1. Timestamp. Enclosed in <abbr title..> tags. Looks like this<abbr title= (...) >2016-12-31 1234</abbr>
2. Username (who talked), enclosed in a data-hovercard…> tags. Looks like this<a data-hovercard= (...) >Bob Bobson</a>
3. The message, enclosed in a div class with "ltr" string in it. Looks like this<div class="_38 direction_ltr"><span class="null"><p>Message</p></span></div>
Seriously, a programming course in Python or a similar language can go a long way and it's cheaper than any other tool you can buy.
And guess what? You can write tools to other problems as well, for no extra cost than your hourly cost. Tools already written can be reused and also shared with the community.