Re:Reliability of police mobile phone evidence questioned af...
by JumpCrisscross on Monday April 26, 2021 @11:14AM
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> if phone A had the malicious code then the scanner is infected, now when scanning phone B the results are invalid
I think it was more insidious. Police scans phone A and stores a log. Police scan phone B with said code on it, which infects the scanner. This code not only tampers with the logs for phone B, but goes back and tampers with the logs for phone A. There is thus no log that one can definitively say represents the true state of any scanned phone at the time it was scanned.
I think it was more insidious. Police scans phone A and stores a log. Police scan phone B with said code on it, which infects the scanner. This code not only tampers with the logs for phone B, but goes back and tampers with the logs for phone A. There is thus no log that one can definitively say represents the true state of any scanned phone at the time it was scanned.