“I could send someone's wife an email if I got one of these phones, asking for information such as, ‘I forgot your Social Security number. “But since it's already connected to the phone, we can access his files without needing his username or password.”ĭaniel said he also found “very interesting conversations between what look like bookies and gambling” on another person’s phone.ĭiscarding a phone with private information on it can be unsettling, according to Daniel, but how that information is used, if found, can be personally and financially devastating to the original owner. “We also have access to his Twitter account, so we can go in and post things … recent locations where he was based on GoogleMaps and also access to his Dropbox account, which is a cloud-based storage system for your files,” he added. We have access to his Gmail account, so we can read and view all of his emails,” Daniel said. “We were able to recover email addresses – his email addresses, his friends’ email addresses – his Skype account information, his dog’s name, his interests – such as that he plays Dungeons and Dragons – where he works, his shifts at work based on his calendar. Then, using data recovery tools anyone can download for free on the Internet, he found more concerning information on one man’s phone. Most of the information Daniel found was easy enough for the average person to access. You could put them anywhere that will allow you to post photos.”

“You could post those pictures on (the woman’s) Facebook account. You can see who they were sent to,” he said.

“This person took multiple pictures of themselves posing nude. Many phone photos now embed geo-location data that pinpoints exactly where the photos were taken, which is “quite frightening,” according to Daniel.

“There is literally enough on some of these phones to stalk someone from where they work to where they live to where their kids go to school,” said Lars Daniel, a certified digital forensics examiner and forensic artist with Guardian Digital Forensics.ĭaniel retrieved hundreds of contacts, text messages, emails and a few compromising photos during his first, cursory review of the phones.

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