Asking this for someone very close to me who believes his (ex)wife cheated on him multiple times... Cousin has two of her flip phones (Samsung SGH-X475 and LG LX1200 - both T-Mobile). He believes these two phones have a treasure trove of her cheating literature and he wants that information because he is in the process of getting divorced and his ex is literally taking him to the cleaners.
Anyone know how to get around getting the information out of these phones? I believe he does not have the power cords because he grabbed them without her ex knowing.
Any information would be greatly appreciated.
Thx.
You'd be surprised what you can get off a phone, if you have the physical phone, as well as the Sim card.
There was a case in Canada in 2006 involving a Blackberry [which, as a standard, has heavy encryption, since Blackberries were used by many in the investment banking community.
It took two years of the RCMP working on the phone...but they finally got everything. I believe this required the destruction of the phone's internal motherboard...but they got it.
For the layman, Sim card readers are available, although I've never bought one, so don't know how well they work:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/401145518162?hash=item5d6622d852This is why I always use prepaid phones, and I physically take apart the phone, soak them overnight in pop, and chuck all the pieces in different garbage cans when I'm done.
Not that have anything to hide...I just feel our phones spy on us WAY too much. Once I was talking about Aquidneck Island in Rhode Island, and an island in Aquidneck Island [yes, the smallest US state has an island, which itself has an island]. Anyway, next thing we know, and my friend's brand new phone fresh out of the box was serving him travel ads for islands.
I also just misplaced an old phone on Saturday. So when I went online to change my passwords online just to be safe, and I found out that Google had been tracking the geographical location of that phone since I bought it in 2020.
And that's why I use prepaid phones only - the spying is straight out of hand.
Speaking of cheating, I was dated a married woman for nine months, and it turned out that my house showed up as the #2 place she visited, second to only her one house. Her husband grabbed her phone to check that, but it was locked, and she later deleted that list with the locations visited.
My point is: our phones spy on us A LOT. And that is why I always buy prepaid phones to use for a few months to a couple of years max at a time.
My suggestion if you have the physical phone is to keep it in a safe place turned off, and not take pictures or videos, or otherwise use anything that will take up storage. As any new information stored will potentially overwrite older information.
