r/computerforensics • • 22h ago

Phone extraction vs vehicle data for a crash case: which ends up mattering more?

8 Upvotes

Trying to budget for a crash case. We can do a phone extraction (with consent) or a vehicle infotainment/EDR pull, probably not both.

In your experience, which one usually answers the 'was the driver distracted' question better? Or is it truly case-by-case?


r/computerforensics • • 10h ago

Legacy Tableau TD3 devices

3 Upvotes

I have 3 Tableau TD-3 Forensic Duplicators that are old, but (were) still working perfectly fine. Occasionally i still used them when I had to do a lot of disk acquisitions. However, when I wanted to use them last week, none of them worked anymore, simply dead bricks. Checked power supplies and fuses but everything seemed to be in order. It literally looks like there was some sort of kill switch executed at a certain date and time. Is there anyone that still has a TD-3 that is working? I tried to reach out to OpenText but as usual you are only being referred to non descriptive articles and legal documents. Cheers!