Android Backups Local Google And Manufacturer Cloud
ANDROIDBACKUPS · A GUIDE FOR UK LAWYERS Android Backups: Local, Google and Manufacturer Cloud Several Backups, Several Makers, Selective Contents: What a Backup Holds, What It Leaves Out, and Why It Is a First-Class Source COMPUTER FORENSICS LAB
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§ CONTENTS In this guide 01 Executive summary 02 The problem in plain English: several backups, none complete 03 The backups: Google, manufacturer and local 04 What each holds, and what it leaves out 05 Finding and reaching backups law full y 06 Reading a backup: prior states, deletions and honest limits 07 Deployment: the backup as first-class source and fallback 08 Source architecture: where else the evidence lives 09 Worked examples 10 Common mistakes and technical limitations 11 Questions to ask · Suggested wording 12 Checklist and red flags · When to involve a digital forensic expert 13 Frequently asked questions 14 Glossary · References · Disclaimer · How a specialist laboratory can assist
§ 01 · ORIENTATION Executive summary manufacturer's cloud and to local backups, none of them complete and each selective according to the user's settings and each app's choices, yet each preserving the phone's contents at the moment it was made and surviving the phone, so backups are first-class sources that must be found, whose contents must be established rather than assumed, and which are reached law full y.
§ 02 · FIRST PRINCIPLES The problem in plain English: several backups, none complete
§ 03 · THE BACKUP S The backups: Google, manufacturer and local FIND ALL BACKUPS GOOGLE ACCOUNT MAKER CLOUD LOCAL BACKUP ESTABLISH CONTENTS
§ 04 · WHAT EACH HOLD S What each holds, and what it leaves out
§ 05 · FINDINGANDREACHING Finding and reaching backups law full y
§ 06 · READINGABACKUP Reading a backup: prior states, deletions and honest limits
§ 07 · DEPLOYMENT Deployment: the backup as first-class source and fallback
§ 08 · THEWIDERMAP Source architecture: where else the evidence lives EVIDENCE GOOGLE GOOGLE MANUFACTURER LOCAL APP PROVIDER LIVE BACKUP PHOTOS CLOUD BACKUP CLOUD DEVICE
§ 09 · IN THE WILD Worked examples EXAMPLE1 · THETHREEBACKUPSTHATTOGETHERHELDTHEANSWER EXAMPLE2 · THEBACKUPTHATWASSILENT, READCORRECTLY EXAMPLE3 · THETWOBACKUPSTHATDATEDTHEDELETION
§ 10 · WHEREITGOESWRONG Common mistakes and technical limitations Common mistakes Technical limitations
§ 11 · INTERROGATORIES & DRAFTING AIDS Questions to ask · Suggested wording Ask your client Ask your opponent Ask your e Discovery / forensic provider SUGGESTED WORDING · INSTRUCTIONFORANANDROIDB AC KUPANA LY SIS
§ 12 · QUICK CONTROL Checklist and red flags · When to involve a digital forensic expert The Android backup checklist Red flags When to involve a digital forensic expert
§ 13 · COMMON QUESTIONS Frequently asked questions How is an Android phone backed up? Does a backup contain everything on the phone? Why are backups so valuable? Can a backup show when something was deleted? How are backups obtained law full y? If the phone is wiped, can the backups rebuild it?
§ 14 · REFERENCE Glossary Sources and authoritative references DISCLAIMER
§ HOW A SPECIALIST LABORATORY CAN ASSIST Working with Computer Forensics Lab Speak to a forensic examiner, not a salesperson. INSTRUCTTHELAB NEWENQUIRIESEMAILE - DISCOVERY
Cite as: Joseph Naghdi, Android Backups Local Google And Manufacturer Cloud, Computer Forensics Lab, https://e-discovery.uk/library/android-backups-local-google-and-manufacturer-cloud/pdf.