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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Apparently something big is going down in the iPhone forensics world. TUAW has learned that about a half dozen different firms are actively...

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Brian Erdelyi

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.

March 31 2008 at 5:14 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Aron Trimble

I'm ready for the new hit crime drama "CSI: Cupertino" to hit!

March 30 2008 at 9:36 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

fubufighters

i'm game, hit me on my two-way!

March 30 2008 at 7:47 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

MDK

Stupid nazi-shit! Noone cares 'bout the moral here anymore?

March 30 2008 at 6:50 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

jonathan ober

I see a new tv show for CBS....CSI:iPhone :)

March 30 2008 at 2:27 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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doug

[put sunglasses on] "Whaaaaaa... Daaa... dunoh... Daaa... dunoh"

March 30 2008 at 5:28 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Greg F

Wouldn't it be CSiPhone? :P

March 30 2008 at 8:09 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

paul

Well, at least this confirms that the iPhone is going to be MASSIVE!...

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JKT

>"the iPhone is going to be MASSIVE!..."

What do you mean "going to be"??

March 30 2008 at 5:58 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Marc F

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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