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15.3.2 Hardware Breaking
Some devices allow for the mobile device key to be read from a memory
dump of certain devices, and this allows the phone to be unlocked and
acquired. If a procedure cannot be located or developed easily, it may
require some experimentation, which should be done on a test device.
ere are many specialized techniques, and they are almost always for a
specic device, and will likely even be designed just for a particular device
within a class. Do not anticipate or even expect that a particular technique
will work on all rmware versions of a phone and all generations of it.
JTAG and asher boxes may also be eective. ese tools are cov-
ered below.
15.3.3 Social (Investigative ...