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Encryption is irrelevent. Resistance is futile.
A cop friend of mine told me that the portable device that they use on traffic stops doesn't actually download any data from the phone.
It uses the phone to log onto the cellular network and reads the call/data/text logs from the tower. Will tell them if you have been texting, talking, etc. It won't actually display any texts or data. It will however show who (phone number) you called or sent a text to/from.
All the cop has to do is inform you that you are suspected of texting while driving and there is his probable cause to search the phone.
Vehicle search rights are different than that of a home or business because it is being operated on a public road.
BTW he tells me that almost everyone claims to have been "checking the time".
That excuse doesn't work. Checking time is still "using a mobile communication device while operating a motor vehicle"
To actually look at files on the phone they have to use a different device which is kept at the station. There encryption might help you out.
Like I said resistance is futile.
I've never encountered the device myself. I'm just repeating what I was told about it when I asked him.
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05-01-11 03:46 PM - Don't have to stall the cop at all. Once a wipe starts the device will continue with the wipe process it is completed. Pull the battery, put it back in and the wipe will start over again. If the device is operational at all because of the battery pull.LOL have you ever done a security wipe? Damn thing takes 10 minutes! How you going to stall the cop that long?
05-01-11 04:18 PM - Encryption is irrelevent. Resistance is futile.
A cop friend of mine told me that the portable device that they use on traffic stops doesn't actually download any data from the phone.
It uses the phone to log onto the cellular network and reads the call/data/text logs from the tower. Will tell them if you have been texting, talking, etc. It won't actually display any texts or data. It will however show who (phone number) you called or sent a text to/from.
All the cop has to do is inform you that you are suspected of texting while driving and there is his probable cause to search the phone.
Vehicle search rights are different than that of a home or business because it is being operated on a public road.
BTW he tells me that almost everyone claims to have been "checking the time".
That excuse doesn't work. Checking time is still "using a mobile communication device while operating a motor vehicle"
To actually look at files on the phone they have to use a different device which is kept at the station. There encryption might help you out.
Like I said resistance is futile.
I've never encountered the device myself. I'm just repeating what I was told about it when I asked him.
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So just curious, what state does he work in? Is it michigan? Or are other states using this?
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