Mobile Forensic Investigator in the Lost World of Crime

“Alice asked: Can Cheshire Cat tell me which way I should go? That depends a lot on where you want to go, said the Cat. I don't know where to go! said Alice. If you don't know where to go, any road will do.”
Alice in Wonderland 

Today's smartphones are much more used for socializing than making phone calls. Tablets, increasingly equipped with powerful processors and much more storage capacity, are no longer used only as entertainment devices. 

Smartphones and tablets are replacing camcorders, digital cameras, book and newspaper readers, TVs, navigation and communication devices, and even game consoles, competing very successfully for users' attention with computers and smartphones.

With this amount of time spent on mobile devices and the vast array of activities available on them, smartphones and tablets have become great digital storage vaults for personal and professional secrets, providing a veritable wealth of information about their users.

Extracting this information, analyzing the data and turning it into solid evidence is the main objective of a digital investigator and for that the examiner may need to break these encryption mechanisms to extract data from the devices. For any collection of evidence that does not follow the proper procedure during the examination may result in loss or damage of the evidence and render it invalid in a legal process.
As data is volatile and can be quickly transformed, a criminal can safely erase data stored on the phone via a remote command.....