Self Deleting Text Messages

Self Deleting Text Messages
How to send self deleting SMS according to a computer hacking website that reports "this technique is called SAFE-TEXT. It's a technique where a message destroys itself after being read."

Before proceeding further there are several matters worth mentioning.

Sent flash SMS text messages are not automatically saved and thus delete after opening and closing the message

US Cases - Interpretation regarding seizure

US Cases - Interpretation regarding seizure
Two interesting US cases posted at Susan Brenner, Professor of Law, blog highlighting the complexity in interpretation regarding seizure, relevant to these cases were Blackberry devices.

http://cyb3rcrim3.blogspot.com/2010/10/blackberry-seized-unlawfully.html
http://cyb3rcrim3.blogspot.com/2010/10/blackberry-seized-lawfully.html

US Case: Daubert and Cell Site Analysis Maps

US Case: Daubert and Cell Site Analysis MapsI having been an advocate, as many of you know, for many years for the use in evidence of network operator generated analogue and digital cellular radio maps (eg best server plots/density maps & single cell prediction plots/density maps). That is because they are a composite compiled from collection of visible and discrete detail relevant to the

SMS Text Messages - Hearsay Evidence

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Cell Site Analysis (CSA) Images Part 2

Cell Site Analysis (CSA) Images Part 2.It may interest those reading the discussions that I post that Cell Site Analysis (CSA) results from terrain and clutter analysis and radio test measurements can be defined in many different ways that can demonstrate particular elements of importance to a case..Image 5.First we need to model (Image 5) the landscape that represents the geographical area and

Cell Site Analysis (CSA) Images

Cell Site Analysis (CSA) Images.Cell Site Analysis (CSA) has had a good deal of airing recently here on the forum, so I thought you might like to see images from the work that I get involved..Image 1.Image 1 is one slide from the training course material to introduce students to CSA when starting out discussing radio test measurements. It should be noted that this image represents less than 1% of

UK Criminal Evidence Delays

UK Criminal Evidence Delays.Due to delays in passing evidence to the defence certain building blocks of evidence used against a defendant are not being held by the prosecution, but worst still, the expert who obtains, for instance the tests and results, holds on to them because they claim their client (the Police) haven't made that a term of the instructions to pass them over. The police say they

Cellular Phones, Warrantless Searches

Cellular Phones, Warrantless Searches.I have just read an interesting paper, published at the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) website on January 18, 2009, which has a very long title:.Cellular Phones, Warrantless Searches, and the New Frontier of Fourth Amendment Jurisprudence..http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1329863#1209265.Written by Matthew E. Orso of the Saint Louis

Ultra-thin membrane changes (U)SIM card usage

Ultra-thin membrane changes SIM card usageExaminers may come across an ultra-thin (0.3mm) membrane that lays over the contacts of a SIM card. Called the V200 SIM Dialer, the membrane is "Prefix base programmable (For routing prefix and bypass prefix setting)". What does that mean? Well, it allows mobile phones installed with SIM Tool Kit menu (most up to date phones have them) and define access

Starter Kit Mobile Phone CPD Training Barristers & Solicitors

Starter Kit Mobile Phone CPD Training Barristers & SolicitorsCPD training delivered in 2005 to Bar Council and Law Society Members at the Chambers of Mr Ferguson QC.http://www.rfqc.co.uk/images/lecture_notes/CPD_training_Pt1.pdfhttp://www.rfqc.co.uk/images/lecture_notes/CPD_Training_Pt2.pdf

USIM-D Images

Mobile Calls on Aeroplanes

Mobile Calls on Aeroplanes .Back in November 2006 I wrote here at trewmte.blogspot a brief piece regarding "Switch On, Update, Lose Evidence":.http://trewmte.blogspot.com/2006/11/switch-on-update-lose-evidence.html.The discussion thread related to the same but more indepth discussion in "Switch On, Update, Lose Evidence" that could be found in MTE (Mobile Telephone Evidence) Newsletter - copy of

Writing To Mobile Phones Under Examination

Writing To Mobile Phones Under ExaminationThere is always the debate as to what amounts to "forensic" processes and whether that can be left to human intervention to do that, whether a device alone can do that or whether it is the combination of human intervention and the device working together that can fulfil the objective? Perhaps germane and relevant to the above question is (1) knowing the

Mobile Telephone Evidence Diploma

Mobile Telephone Evidence Diploma
As this is my 20th year in mobile telephone evidence and forensics (1987-2007) I have created a Diploma Course for Mobile Telephone Evidence (MTEdip). The Diploma is a development from the numerous SIM Card, Mobile Telephone and Cell Site Analsysis courses prepared and delivered to law enforcement and industry security specialists in the UK and internationally.

Nokia 6280 Black Out

Nokia 6280 Black OutThere appears to be a problem that can occur with some Nokia 6280. I am not the first to notice this. When SMS or MMS memories are full or scrolling the Menu the handset suddenly blacks out. For an examiner this can imply the examination has somehow gone wrong, causing blood pressure to rise and an increase pulse and heart rate. It appears to be a fault with some (I hasten to

Mobile Telephone Evidence - TIPS

Mobile Telephone Evidence - TIPSVinny Parmar sent in a couple of handset examination tips for my webblog readers. Thanks Vinny..1. Nokia 6280 Series 40 - Handset can be powered on without the need for a SIM card. Access granted to menu's & data areas. Call log is not available. Contact list only viewable if Contact settings memory allocation changed to Phone Memory only. All other data areas

Smith's LND Dilemma

Smith's LND DilemmaIn real cases of mobile 'phone and SIM Card examination, as opposed to theoretical discussion about them, entries found in elementary file Last Number Dialled (EFLND) on a SIM Card can be quite complex to determine and today do not have a clearly defined pattern as to the origin of data, as one might think is suggested by the GSM Standard 11.11. This is largely due to

Mobile phone forensics and evidence

Mobile phone forensics and evidenceThe UK appears to be leading the world when in comes to mobile telephone forensics and evidence. Law enforcement globally, though, relies heavily upon mobile telephone evidence. The concerns over terrorism and the use by terrorists to use technology promoted an enquiry by the UK House of Commons Home Affairs Select Committee into the use of evidence from mobile

Reports and Newsletters Available

Reports and Newsletters AvailableMobile Telephone Evidence (MTE) NewsletterMobile Telephone Surveillance (MTS) NewsletterMobile Telephone Seizure ProcedureMobile Telephone Handset Cloning ReportMobile Telephobne SIM Card Cloning ReportMobile Telephone Cell Site AnalysisPlease sent a request to: TrewMTE@gmail.comYou will need to provide identifiable organisation details and valid email and phone

WHAT'S THIS?

WHAT'S THIS?The x-ray from one of four prisoners in an El Salvador prison who smuggled in cellphones, a phone charger and spare chips in their bowels so they could coordinate crimes from their cells, according to prison officials at the maximum security Zacatecoluca. Urrrgghhhhh!!! Think I would have to phone my insurance company and ask whether my desk was covered to have one of those items put