Boris Johnson fails to hand over mobile with Covid WhatsApps before inquiry deadline (www.independent.co.uk)

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Device containing Covid-era messages up until May 2021 remains in former PM’s possession

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[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

However, Mr Johnson’s office said his team was still working with government security officials on how best to switch on the old phone

Firstly it seems really funny that a team of government security officials are "figuring out" how to turn on an old phone when my own phone is probably older.

But secondly it would be really trivial for someone with basic technical knowledge to extract the memory storage component and recover the data even if it never turned on again.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

But secondly it would be really trivial for someone with basic technical knowledge to extract the memory storage component and recover the data even if it never turned on again.

This would be bread and butter to organisations with experience in data forensics (if you have the device, data is never lost it just becomes increasingly hard to extract) but I'd imagine most phone shop workers could do it for you. Give me an hour and I'd take a run at it for £20. As it's BoJo, I might even do it for free.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You may want to change that offer. Whe you consider the photos likely to exist in that data.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That'll be in my invoice for a bucket of eyebleach.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

How do you dedrypt it?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Give me an hour and £20 and I'll let you know.

My guess would be you'd clone the phone and just BoJo's pin to unlock it, which is almost definitely 00769.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Could be encrypted though

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Send it to GCHQ

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