Fastboot mode
Fastboot is another protocol utility built into the Android Software Development Kit, and is used for interacting directly with a device's bootloader. Essentially, it is a much lower-level version of ADB and is frequently used to flash new images to a device. How can this be helpful to an examiner?
Fastboot can allow an examiner to boot from a custom recovery image and temporarily gain root access on a device, hence gaining access to data that would have been unavailable otherwise. Fastboot does not require USB Debugging to be enabled or root access. The process of loading a custom bootloader onto a device is commonly used by commercial forensic tools to temporarily root a device, but a skilled examiner can also perform the ...
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