Text Message Preservation in mobile
With an average of 193.1 billion text messages sent every month in the United States, the importance and use of text messages in litigation is ever-increasing. As a consequence, the importance of text message preservation for e-discovery is also growing. Understanding how text messages can be preserved and the pitfalls to avoid is essential. While we recommend engaging the services of a digital forensics service provider who is familiar with the complexities of mobile phone forensics, there are certain situations in which the end-user can at least create a preserved, forensically sound copy that adigital forensics expert can later access and produce data from.
For the purpose of this article, we are assuming that the text messages are sent or received by a mobile telephone. We'll start by lumping most of the mobile phones in use today into two major categories: Smartphones and Feature Phones. The most popular Smartphones would include Apple’s iPhone, Google’s Android, Microsoft’s Windows Phone, and RIM’s BlackBerry devices. Feature phones are pretty much everything else; having some of the basic "features" of smartphones, but lacking in overall integration with the phone's operating system and hardware, and with limited user-customization
For the purpose of this article, we are assuming that the text messages are sent or received by a mobile telephone. We'll start by lumping most of the mobile phones in use today into two major categories: Smartphones and Feature Phones. The most popular Smartphones would include Apple’s iPhone, Google’s Android, Microsoft’s Windows Phone, and RIM’s BlackBerry devices. Feature phones are pretty much everything else; having some of the basic "features" of smartphones, but lacking in overall integration with the phone's operating system and hardware, and with limited user-customization
