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Android Forensics Made Easy with SAFT: What You Need to Know



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People have tried bashing their phone with a hammer and throwing laptops into the ocean, but even then, a skilled digital forensics specialist could likely recover what they need. Burning a device into a molten pile of plastic, however, tends to do the trick.




Android Forensics Made Easy with SAFT



Digital forensics operates on the principle that evidence should always be adequately preserved, processed, and admissible in a court of law. Some legal considerations go hand in hand with the confiscation of mobile devices.


A Faraday box/bag and external power supply are common types of equipment for conducting mobile forensics. While the former is a container specifically designed to isolate mobile devices from network communications and, at the same time, help with the safe transportation of evidence to the laboratory, the latter, is a power source embedded inside the Faraday box/bag. Before putting the phone in the Faraday bag, disconnect it from the network, disable all network connections (Wi-Fi, GPS, Hotspots, etc.), and activate the flight mode to protect the integrity of the evidence.


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Each year there are millions of mobile phone users around the world that have a need to save and print text messages for court, trial, or their lawyer. Whatever kind of legal-related issue you are having, printing out text messages from both iPhone and Android devices is easy with a few quick steps.


"@context": " ", "@type": "VideoObject", "name": "How To Save and Print Text Messages for Court", "description": "How Do I Save and Print Text Messages for Court?\n\nFollow these specific steps to save and print text messages for court:\nStep 1. Backup your iPhone via iTunes.\nStep 2. Run Decipher TextMessage.\nStep 3. Select a device and chose a contact whose text message you want to save for court.\nStep 4. Select \"Export PDF.\u201d\nStep 5. Choose \"desktop\" to save the text messages to computer.\nStep 6. Open the PDF containing your court-related text messages.\nStep 7. Select \u201cPrint\u201d to print out the text messages for court.\n\nVideo Overview:\nWelcome to our Decipher Tools tutorial about how to save and print iPhone text messages for court, trial, or any legal related matter. Keep in mind while we're running today's video tutorial on a Mac, this also works on any Windows computer.\n\nTo complete the tutorial you'll need three things: \n1. iPhone or an iPad.\n2. Windows or Mac computer with a copy of iTunes installed.\n3. Decipher TextMessage. -decipher-textmessage.html\n\nDetailed Video Instructions to Save and Print Text Messages for Court.\nThe first thing you want to do is backup your iPhone via iTunes. We have helpful instruction on how to do that here if you\u2019ve never made an iTunes backup before. -base/how-do-i-backup-my-iphone-or-ipad-w-itunes/\n\nNext, run Decipher TextMessage on your computer. Decipher TextMessage is the desktop program that lets you export your iPhone text messages to your computer in a PDF document so you can save them for court.\n\nNavigate to your web browser and go to -textmessage.html to install Decipher TextMessage.\n\nWhen the program first open the software will automatically read in any existing iTunes backups on your computer. If you don\u2019t see any backups in the program and the left-hand column in the program is blank that simply means that you've never used iTunes to backup a device and you need to backup your phone via iTunes on your computer.\n\nAfter doing so when you launch the program, you'll see your device here in the left-hand column. If we click on a phone, you'll immediately see all your iPhone contacts in the middle column of the program. If we select one, you'll then see in the far right hand column all the text messages with that contact.\n\nOne of the special features of Decipher text message that is useful for court is that the program has a unique preference that will display the contact name and phone number on every single text message both sent and received. Even messages on the iPhone itself and in the messages app are not displayed this way. \n\nThis feature of the program is something that many lawyers and courts appreciate since it helps with documentation and clarification of exactly who sent and received every single text message. Now this feature is on by default, however you can always double check by simply clicking the preferences and making sure there's a check mark next to the show contact on every message option. You can also email them to your lawyer or anyone related to your court or legal case. It's that easy!\n\nA few quick additional features to keep in mind if you don't want to export all your text messages and you only have a few messages that you want to export, you can simply use the export date range option.\n\nNavigate again to the export menu choose \"export current conversation\" and pick the \"PDF date range\" option. A little calendar will pop up and you can choose the exact dates for which messages you want to save. \n\nWe'll select that specific day and then we'll choose export. We now pick a place on our computer where we want to save the exported PDF with the text messages. \n\nPrivacy\nWhen you use Decipher TextMessage to export or print your text messages for court, all of your text message data is private and local to your computer. Nothing is stored on servers or in the cloud! The user is in complete control.\n\nWe hope today's quick overview about how to save text messages for court has been helpful! If you have any questions simply contact us via our support page or leave a comment here and we'll reply. \n\nAdditional instructions for saving and printing text messages for court for both iPhone and Android devices is available at -text-messages-for-legal-evidence-or-court/\n\nYou can also navigate to Here you'll find Facebook testimonials from Decipher Tools customers, many of whom have successfully used Decipher TextMessage to save and print their important text messages for court or legal matters!\n\n \n ", "uploadDate": "2019-04-23T21:18:35Z", "thumbnailUrl": [" ", " ", " ", " ", " "], "contentUrl": " =miEcnbCCIu8", "embedUrl": " ", "duration": "PT8M3S", "interactionCount": "67072"


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