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Cops Plunder Cell Phones for Information

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UPDATED: Tuesday, September 9, 2008 12:03
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Tuesday, September 9, 2008 9:28 AM

OUT2THEBLACK


'(09-07) 16:07 PDT -- Deep in the bowels of San Francisco's Hall of Justice, Sgt. Wayne Hom plugs in a USB key to activate a new high-tech tool that has become the delight of cops, the bane of bad guys and a cloud over civil liberties - a device to extract contacts, text messages, pictures and videos from cell phones.

" Around here they call me Inspector Gadget because I can wire just about anything," said Hom, a former gang task force officer who now battles crime digitally with a new genre of cell phone forensic extraction devices.

Hom said these devices - made by companies including Cellebrite, Data Pilot and Oxygen Software - often can extract text messages, pictures or contact lists that the phone owner thinks they have erased, so long as new data hasn't written over the old location in the cell phone's memory.'

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/08/BUPA12OC2V
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Tuesday, September 9, 2008 11:58 AM

FREMDFIRMA


Hmm, bears thinking about.

Imma forward it to the guys who came up with the ScramDrive, see if maybe they can work up a ScramPhone too, prolly sell pretty good, till they outlaw it.


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Tuesday, September 9, 2008 12:03 PM

SERGEANTX


Oh calm down. They'll only ever use these when conducting a legitimate investigation with a search warrant and then only to find specific information related to a suspected crime.



SergeantX

"Dream a little dream or you can live a little dream. I'd rather live it, cause dreamers always chase but never get it." Aesop Rock

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