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This is interesting to me, because it is almost exactly one of the examples I used to use in training to talk about analytical tools. “One of the key enablers is the analysis of email traffic and calendar metadata. This tells us a lot about who is talking to whom, in what departments, what meetings…
Police Auctioned Mobile Devices – Complete with Illegal Data!
Imagine, if you will an identity thief caught in the act by law enforcement. As part of the evidence collection, they find a mobile device with a whole bunch of stolen credit cards, driver’s licenses, and other data that was in the process of being used by said thief, to steal the identities of dozens of people.
That evidence sits in the property room until such a time as the law says it’s safe for the law enforcement agency to get rid of it, at which time the device is put up for auction.
You would think that before auctioning off these devices with illegally-gotten and dangerous information on them, the various agencies would have wiped them clean, no?
According to the University of Maryland, you’d be completely wrong.
Linked – Tesla Model 3 keeps data like crash videos, location, phone contacts
Is there a DBAN type tool out there to wipe the hard drive of your car before you sell it, or it gets hauled away from the site of a wreck? Maybe there should be: “The researchers shared records with CNBC that showed the car’s computers had stored data from at least 17 different devices….
