iPhone forensics market developing
Apparently something big is going down in the iPhone forensics world. TUAW has learned that about a half dozen different firms are actively hunting for developers who can assist law enforcement in reading data off unjailbroken iPhones, both the private and public partitions. We've been in touch with third-party Mac developers who have been contacted. Want a gig as an iPhone CSI? You'll need a good working knowledge of the iTunes protocol and a way to communicate directly with the iPhone without altering any data that could be used for evidence.
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Marc F said 1:15PM on 3-30-2008
There's already one program that I can recall that offers to obtain evidence in a forensically sound way from iPhone (varying amounts of info can be retrieved depending on firmware version and whether it's jailbroken or not.
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paul said 1:37PM on 3-30-2008
Well, at least this confirms that the iPhone is going to be MASSIVE!...
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JKT said 5:58PM on 3-30-2008
>"the iPhone is going to be MASSIVE!..."
What do you mean "going to be"??
jonathan ober said 2:27PM on 3-30-2008
I see a new tv show for CBS....CSI:iPhone :)
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vectr said 5:28PM on 3-30-2008
[put sunglasses on] "Whaaaaaa... Daaa... dunoh... Daaa... dunoh"
Greg F said 8:09PM on 3-30-2008
Wouldn't it be CSiPhone? :P
mdk said 10:44PM on 3-30-2008
Stupid nazi-shit! Noone cares 'bout the moral here anymore?
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fubufighters said 7:48PM on 3-30-2008
i'm game, hit me on my two-way!
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Aron Trimble said 9:36PM on 3-30-2008
I'm ready for the new hit crime drama "CSI: Cupertino" to hit!
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Brian said 5:14PM on 3-31-2008
I think the ideal method will involve removing storage from the iPhone and attaching it to another system/device thas alredy booted. I'm not opening my iPhone to see what it looks like. Anything that involves retrieving data via the iPhone OS may not cut it.
Once you can image the storage device it can be analyzed with existing forensic tools.
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