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iPhone Forensics
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iPhone Forensics

by Jonathan Zdziarski
September 2008
Intermediate to advanced
140 pages
3h 31m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Strings Dump

As a final means to turn up data, the strings from the raw disk image can be extracted and saved to a file. The output will be enormous, but it will allow loose text searches for a particular conversation or other data.

Extracting Strings

To extract the strings from the disk image, perform the following.

Mac OS X

The strings utility comes integrated with Mac OS X, as it is a standard Unix tool. Simply issue the following from a terminal window:

$ strings rdisk0s2 > filename

Windows

Download the Windows version of strings from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897439.aspx. Issue the following command to dump the text strings from the disk image:

$ strings.exe rdisk0s2 > filename
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