You are assisting with the Investigation of a report of Bestiality, and have been accessed to conduct the digital forensic examination of the Suspect’s Cellular telephone. You have been provided with a Warrant, which authorizes you to acquire a forensic image of all data on the phone, and then conduct a subsequent review of the data for images or videos of obscenity involving animals. The Warrant authorizes you to search all files and folders on the phone, to include deleted files, unallocated space which may exist on the phones flash memory, and, to conduct the same examination of any SD Card the phone may contain. After conducting an acquisition of the data using the Cellebrite Physical Analyzer Mobile Device Toolkit, you realize no images or videos were extracted. After a little research, you realize that the phone uses a Cloud Based storage system, by default, to save all pictures and videos to the users Google Drive. In an attempt to verify this setting, you set up a digital video camera, and record you manually searching the phone. You enter the photograph/video folder, and thumbnails populate, which appear to display animals and naked humans. Through the settings, you verify all of the content is stored in Google’s Cloud storage feature. You decide to click on one of the thumbnails, which reveals a Bestiality video involving your subject. You then click through the thumbnails, and find several other videos. There is no way for you to acquire these videos using your forensic tools, so you decide to write a Search Warrant for the Subject’s Google Drive based on the videos you observed. What Protections and Laws does this example require you to consider when searching a physical device which has access to cloud storage? Does a Search Warrant for a Physical Device provide authority to search a connected Cloud Server? Can you establish Probable Cause to Search the Cloud Server, and if so, what information should be included, and what information should be excluded from the Warrant? Is the search conducted above unreasonable? If so, why and how? For this assignment, you need to answer the proceeding questions in a written format, providing evidence to support your answers for each question. please help
You are assisting with the Investigation of a report of Bestiality, and have been accessed to conduct the digital forensic examination of the Suspect’s Cellular telephone. You have been provided with a Warrant, which authorizes you to acquire a forensic image of all data on the phone, and then conduct a subsequent review of the data for images or videos of obscenity involving animals. The Warrant authorizes you to search all files and folders on the phone, to include deleted files, unallocated space which may exist on the phones flash memory, and, to conduct the same examination of any SD Card the phone may contain.
After conducting an acquisition of the data using the Cellebrite Physical Analyzer Mobile Device Toolkit, you realize no images or videos were extracted. After a little research, you realize that the phone uses a Cloud Based storage system, by default, to save all pictures and videos to the users Google Drive. In an attempt to verify this setting, you set up a digital video camera, and record you manually searching the phone. You enter the photograph/video folder, and thumbnails populate, which appear to display animals and naked humans. Through the settings, you verify all of the content is stored in Google’s Cloud storage feature.
You decide to click on one of the thumbnails, which reveals a Bestiality video involving your subject. You then click through the thumbnails, and find several other videos. There is no way for you to acquire these videos using your forensic tools, so you decide to write a Search Warrant for the Subject’s Google Drive based on the videos you observed.
What Protections and Laws does this example require you to consider when searching a physical device which has access to cloud storage?
- Does a Search Warrant for a Physical Device provide authority to search a connected Cloud Server?
- Can you establish Probable Cause to Search the Cloud Server, and if so, what information should be included, and what information should be excluded from the Warrant?
- Is the search conducted above unreasonable? If so, why and how?
For this assignment, you need to answer the proceeding questions in a written format, providing evidence to support your answers for each question. please help
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