How to COP PROOF your phone

[ElisabethWhispers]

Originally Posted by kinzee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVCROjpgCB0

I can't get the link to work. Could be my computer, though.

Drats.

[CummingsLane]

The decision has been reversed http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions...3-132_8l9c.pdf

[Whirlaway]

I will repost link.

http://www.imore.com/court-rules-cop...-unlock-iphone

Originally Posted by ElisabethWhispers

I can't get the link to work. Could be my computer, though.

Drats.

I don't think the SCOTUS has ruled on this case. Your link is from a 2013 decision. The recent court case giving cops authority to obtain fingerprints to open the phone is from a recent case in Oct-2014. I am not an attorney, but doubt the lower court would rule against settle law.

Originally Posted by CummingsLane

The decision has been reversed http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions...3-132_8l9c.pdf

[ck1942]

Wiping a phone or keeping it locked doesn't erase any data that the cellular carrier has within its system.

And even though that carrier's data (of phone calls made and received) won't include the content of those calls, the date, time and calling or called party's data remains intact.

Texting data will also be in the carrier's records, which includes the "to" and the "from" party and the texts themselves.

Only question is how long any of the data in a carrier's system might be kept. Might be there for several years or more.

Some might argue that "cellular resellers" don't have the data, but the fact is that there are only four major carriers in the U.S. and all of them have "low budget" resellers using the majors' systems.

Incumbent on all in the hobby is the need to be discreet, be careful and don't make yourself into a potential target.

[sketchball82]

Originally Posted by Whirlaway

Fingerprint I-phones are terrible idea if you are interested in protecting information. Fingerprints can be collected as evidence without a warrant. It is better to use the password protection !

http://www.imore.com/court-rules-cop...-unlock-iphone

(i) Being collected, yes. But there is a severe technical challenge to get a pringerprint reader to scan an ink image of a fingerprint.

As I said above, if a PD wants the contents of your phone, they will get it. That doesn't mean a random cop stopping you on the street has to. Your only options are to set your phone to delete its own data, and even that can be reversed by a filescanner as most phones only delete the file's index data and not actual data, or encrypt the entire phone.

The fingerprint comment was a mere deterrent. Most cops wont know how to get around this.

(ii) As noted above, there are additional legal hurdles now.

[pyramider]

Originally Posted by Whirlaway

Fingerprint I-phones are terrible idea if you are interested in protecting information. Fingerprints can be collected as evidence without a warrant. It is better to use the password protection !

http://www.imore.com/court-rules-cop...-unlock-iphone

You bumped a year old thread?