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Effects Of The Factory Reset On Mobile Devices, Riqui Schwamm, Neil C. Rowe
Effects Of The Factory Reset On Mobile Devices, Riqui Schwamm, Neil C. Rowe
Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law
Mobile devices usually provide a “factory-reset” tool to erase user-specific data from the main secondary storage. 9 Apple iPhones, 10 Android devices, and 2 BlackBerry devices were tested in the first systematic evaluation of the effectiveness of factory resets. Tests used the Cellebrite UME-36 Pro with the UFED Physical Analyzer, the Bulk Extractor open-source tool, and our own programs for extracting metadata, classifying file paths, and comparing them between images. Two phones were subjected to more detailed analysis. Results showed that many kinds of data were removed by the resets, but much user-specific configuration data was left. Android devices did …