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Digital Forensics, Investigation, and Response 5E, 5th Edition
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Digital Forensics, Investigation, and Response 5E, 5th Edition

by Chuck Easttom
February 2026
Intermediate to advanced
456 pages
17h 3m
English
Jones & Bartlett Learning
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Seizing Evidence from a Mobile Device

Once you are ready to seize evidence from the mobile device, remember the following rules:

  • If you are going to plug the phone into a computer, make sure the phone does not synchronize with the computer. This is particularly important with the iPhone, which routinely auto-syncs.
  • Follow the same advice you follow for PCs. Make sure you touch the evidence as little as possible, and document what you do to the device.

One of the most important things to do is to make sure you don’t accidentally write data to the mobile device. For example, if you plug an iPhone into your forensic workstation, you want to make sure you don’t accidentally write information from your workstation to the iPhone.

If the forensic ...

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