iPhone forensics market developing
Posted Mar 30th 2008 1:00PM by Erica Sadun
Filed under: Security, iPhone
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.
Tags: forensics, iphone, law enforcement, LawEnforcement, sdk
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3-30-2008 @ 1:15PM
Marc F said...
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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3-30-2008 @ 1:37PM
paul said...
Well, at least this confirms that the iPhone is going to be MASSIVE!...
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3-30-2008 @ 5:58PM
JKT said...
>"the iPhone is going to be MASSIVE!..."
What do you mean "going to be"??
3-30-2008 @ 2:27PM
jonathan ober said...
I see a new tv show for CBS....CSI:iPhone :)
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3-30-2008 @ 5:28PM
vectr said...
[put sunglasses on] "Whaaaaaa... Daaa... dunoh... Daaa... dunoh"
3-30-2008 @ 8:09PM
Greg F said...
Wouldn't it be CSiPhone? :P
3-30-2008 @ 7:48PM
fubufighters said...
i'm game, hit me on my two-way!
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3-30-2008 @ 9:36PM
Aron Trimble said...
I'm ready for the new hit crime drama "CSI: Cupertino" to hit!
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3-30-2008 @ 10:44PM
mdk said...
Stupid nazi-shit! Noone cares 'bout the moral here anymore?
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3-31-2008 @ 5:14PM
Brian said...
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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