Digging Deeper into Digital Evidence
May 15th, 2009
Cyber sleuthing technology has the potential to unlock valuable information in thousands of crimes that have a digital component in them. The so-called flasher boxes facilitate deeper access to data in the form of complete extraction and examination of all information contained in a wide range of cell phones. This is definitely one step ahead of criminals who are trying to hide evidence in digital devices.
The main advantage of the flasher technology over other existing methods of information retrieval is in the ease of plugging the cell phone into the box to make its entire contents spill out into the computer. Contacts, call history and even deleted images and videos are included. However, the mass of letters and numbers that are shown may make no sense but can be turned into valuable information with the right mathematical translation.