'Deleted' Snapchat photos saved in phone data, can be examined as evidence

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http://www.ksl.com/?sid=25106057

By Andrew Adams
KSL.com
May 8th, 2013

OREM -- Not so fast, Snapchat. Those 10-seconds-or-less pictures appear 
to have a much longer life, deep inside of smartphones.

Orem-based firm Decipher Forensics said it has derived a method to 
extract the supposedly no-longer-viewable images and pass them on to 
parents, lawyers and law enforcement.

"The actual app is even saving the picture," said Richard Hickman, a 
digital forensics examiner. "They claim that it's deleted, and it's not 
even deleted. It's actually saved on the phone."

On average, he said, it takes about six hours, but most of the time is 
spent simply imaging the phone's data.

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