Week 21

MEDIA AND
STORAGE
Today
 Pop Quiz’s marks
MOBILE PHONES
INTELLIGENCE
GATHERING
PART ONE
So Phone’s
 Cellsites
 The handset
 The SIM card

What
Calls
makes them work
Text messages
○ SMS
○ MMS
Multimedia
Full-duplex vs. half-
duplex

What is full and half

Is aDuplex?
cell phone

half or full duplex
Channels
 CB radio has 40 channels. A typical cell phone can
communicate on 1,664 channels or more!
 Range
 Walkie talkie about 1 mile (using .25 watt transmitter)
 CB radio about 5 miles (using a 5 watt transmitter)
 Cell phones use cells which can give global coverage
Cell site towers
Cell’s and cell site
How cells are mapped

 The cell site is a location or a point, the cell

is a wide geographical area.
Cell site Passing
How it works
Triangulation
 We need 3 volunteers
Length of string
○ The longer the string the weaker the signal and
therefore the great the distant

○ Would any one like to guess where the mobile

phone is ?
 Becoming commonly know as Virtual GPS
Has good and bad issue attached
○ Can you think of any?
location
Further Study
 Soham murders
Ian Huntley's conviction for the murder of
Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman was based
partly on crucial mobile phone evidence
Mobile phone details
 Electronic Serial Number
a unique 32-bit number programmed into the
phone when it is
 Mobile Identification Number /
International Mobile Equipment Identity
a 10-digit number derived from your phone's
number
 System Identification Code
a unique 5-digit number that is assigned to each
carrier by the FCC
What can they tell us

CALLS
Communications
 Who to
 When
 How long for

How can we use this and why is it important

Times
 When was the phone used
 Where was the phone at time
 When did the phone get turned off last

Helping us develop a time line

The social network
 Who do they know
This can give us leads
for further enquiry.
Given times and
locations for the caller
and the receiving
handset we can map
locations for known
individuals
 What can you read from them

TEXT MESSAGE
Text messages
 Think of text messages as small emails
Details of events that are due to happen or
have occurred
People names
Just plan information
For example
-“ I cant believe what I did to sally in the pub
last night”
images
 Images can be very helpful to an
investigator.
Case study
 Miss Begg Newcastle airport slipway crash
 Car crash reported at 12:08 via mobile phone
 Units turned up while Miss x was still on the phone
 Miss Begg said she had rung her mum when she had the
crash then rang the police
○ (this is quite common shock etc)
 Statement had
○ She tried to brake but the car fail to stop and she hit the car stop at the
side of the slip road
○ Miss Begg left Mr y’s house at 11:53 approximately 10miles away
○ Miss Begg said she had pulled over to take a called about 10 minutes
earlier
○ Then the next time she used the phone was to call her mum then the
999 call
Case study
 During the investigation
Person check
○ Drugs and drink nil found
Vehicular check
○ No faults found
Environmental check
○ No faults found
○ This included weather road surface and lighting
etc
Case study
 Some problems with this case
Officers failed to take the phone when they
arrived on the scene.
Miss Begg had made several more calls after
the officer arrived at the scene
Case Study
 The Prosecutor told the court of police analysis of the calls He
said: "Telephone records show the cause was simple and
undeniable.
 As she was travelling north on the dual carriageway at about
65 to 70mph she was sending text messages.
 "Her eyes can't have been on the road ahead.
 Having sent the last message, she realised she was horribly
close to Mrs Waites and presumably panicked, overcorrecting
her position or maybe breaking and sliding into the car in front.
 Further analysis shows that in fact almost from the moment of
leaving her boyfriend's house she had been in text
conversation but nothing untoward had happened until she
was in the fastest stretch of her journey.
Case study
 Using the cell site timings
 Service providers history
 It was discovered that
○ Tests on Begg’s mobile phone showed she had used her phone nine
times in the journey from Scotswood, Newcastle, to the A696, the scene
of the smash.
○ phone records showed Begg used her mobile nine times during the
journey, sending or receiving five texts and making or receiving four
calls.
The final text was to her boyfriend, whose house she had just left.

○ Former bank clerk Begg, 20, of Whinbank, Ponteland, was jailed for
four years, but that was reduced to three years on appeal.

 The offences carry custodial sentences of up to five years for causing death by careless
driving and up to two years for causing death by driving while unlicensed, disqualified or
uninsured.
 Intro for next session

3G HANDSET
Some thing for next time
 3G handsets are now more like:
○ PDA
○ Digital cameras
○ Mobile internet
○ GPS (satellite navigation)
○ Mp3 players
○ Portable storage devices
 http://blog.teamgearedup.com/2006/01/how-to-triangulate-a-mobile-phone-location.html
 http://www.synergyforensic.co.uk/news_item.asp?article=84
That all folks
 Thanks for listening
Presented by Arron
Martin Zeus Brown
Music
○ Banana Phone by
Raffia
Volunteer 1 by
UOT student
Volunteer 2 by
Part two coming soon UOT student
Volunteer 3 by
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