Device containing Covid-era messages up until May 2021 remains in former PM’s possession

  • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝A
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    711 months ago

    But secondly it would be really trivial for someone with basic technical knowledge to extract the memory storage component and recover the data even if it never turned on again.

    This would be bread and butter to organisations with experience in data forensics (if you have the device, data is never lost it just becomes increasingly hard to extract) but I’d imagine most phone shop workers could do it for you. Give me an hour and I’d take a run at it for £20. As it’s BoJo, I might even do it for free.

    • @HumanPenguin
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      311 months ago

      You may want to change that offer. Whe you consider the photos likely to exist in that data.

    • Flax
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      211 months ago

      How do you dedrypt it?

      • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝A
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        411 months ago

        Give me an hour and £20 and I’ll let you know.

        My guess would be you’d clone the phone and just BoJo’s pin to unlock it, which is almost definitely 00769.

    • Big P
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      111 months ago

      Could be encrypted though