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CSI Stick: A thumb drive for searching cellphones

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

The newest invention to facilitate cellphone searches: The CSI stick. PR Newswire refers to it as The Portable Cell Phone Forensic Tool: Paraben Corporation, a digital forensic technology provider, announced today that it has released the new Cell Seizure Investigator Stick (CSI Stick). The CSI Stick is a thumb drive size device that forensically acquires data from cell phones. This portable solution is easy to use with a simple one button command to gather data from the device. Whether it is logical or physical information, the CSI Stick can gather the data. "The Paraben CSI Stick has the potential to be a great tool for street level patrol officers. The functionality of the stick allows street level officers to view media quickly and at the same time the stick maintains a forensic image for full exam by forensic lab personnel," said Jay Poupard, of the Michigan State Police...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on May 14, 2008 (boomark / email).