Information Technology Reference
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Data acquisition
While the sales of BlackBerry devices is on the decline, they are still encountered during
forensic investigations. Commercial forensic tools provide limited support for BlackBerry
devices in comparison to other smartphones. Even worse, open source methods are not
available for data acquisition of BlackBerry devices. Hence it is important for the examin-
ers to understand all possible methods of data extraction available for these devices. The
following sections discuss the various steps involved in acquiring data from a BlackBerry
device.
