see url: https://cryptome.org/2015/11/Cell-Phone-Investigations.pdf
An interesting education into U.S. Legal and digital forensic theory put
into practice by the police when it comes to getting data and evidence
of a crime which is admissible in court. Almost as good as the law
enforcement interview techniques which gains more evidence from the
interviewee, than using torture, inhumane treatment or enhanced torture
techniques... :-). You can even download a sample search
warrant...(just in case you ever need to check its legal validity)... :-).
One quote I liked from the author, was how unfortunate it was that some
citizen searches were protected by the U.S. Constitution, if only
because the legal formalities were so complicated, time consuming and
expensive to put into operation. Terrible situation really, just think
how much money and law enforcement labour could be achieved by removing
such safegaurds... :-). There is nuffink better than the cheapest
administration of justice for protecting and securing the citizen from
the nasty criminals and acts which abound in the world...:-).
In the UK of course, where there is no constitutional right freeing one
from self-incrimination, the situation is somewhat different regarding
evidence obtained by law enforcement via fishing expeditions; such
evidence is often deemed allowable in a court of law. It doesn't matter
if the catching of the poacher by the gamekeeper, is obtained by the
gamekeepers' own illegal fishing expedition... evidence of any breach of
the criminal code is enough to overcome any human right...:-).
Using a mobile phone is definitely the best way of keeping an accurate
diary of your whos, whens, wheres, whats and hows, and for how long.
You should always make sure you back your data up too, to the cloud, big
mistake just backing it up elsewhere... Cheating can be very difficult,
computer and digital forensics are so good, that even if deletion and
amendment takes place by any party to the proceedings; with the right
forensic tools, one can take the storage medium back through each
change, right to when it was in virgin manufactured condition, I
believe. (Now where did I read that...must have been some research
paper on Cryptome...:-). Still one should never believe what one reads
anywhere, including Cryptome.
One of the unstated reasons why, I presume, that it is impossible for
the law enforcement of the USA to return Diane Roark's hard disks.
Any hanky panky done to the disks, (if they haven't been destroyed
whether under seal or not) wouldn't be erasable...Another reason for not
returning them is that it would be possible to discover whether there
was or wasn't classified material on them in the first place...Perhaps
her assertion that, apart from the exceptions which she has admitted to
would be found to be true, an outcome which would be very embarrassing
at least for intelligence establishment.
Maybe one day she will get a blob of metal made from her hard disks
returned to her in the post...:-).
Enjoy...
ATB
Dougie.
P.S. Can one delete a file from any digital storage medium without
leaving a trace...One wonders...or is my assertion but a mere figment of
my imagination...
