Retrieving Cell Phone Data
For those of you
with a HTC, Motoral, Razr, Galaxy, Iphone or Windows phone beware. This is not
an advertisement for Cellebrite but a notice that no cell phone is now safe
from data extraction.
Before Cellebrite
launched its HTC and Motorola user lock bypass, their forensic customers had to
go to through a painstaking process to recover data from these Android devices:
obtaining a search warrant to serve on Google, either to recover backup data or to
obtain or reset the device user lock. In some cases, such as with a phone that
was turned off, they may even have had to serve paper on the carrier as well.
That has recently
changed. Now their customers have been able to access critical evidence which
they previously could not. Deputy Steven Mueller of the Defiance County (Ohio)
Sheriff’s Office and the Northwest Ohio Technology Crimes Unit, stated: “I was
given a HTC PD15100 in December with a pattern lock. I was unable to acquire it
then. Today with the updates it is being acquired as I write this.”
Therefore
with upgrades by Cellebrite to their retrieval devices almost every cell phone is now open for data
retrieval. For what it's worth.
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