Exploring Data Extraction from Android Devices: What Data You Can Access and How

When I first started working in Digital Forensics, one of the fundamental principles was to always create a bit‑by‑bit copy of the storage device . Back then, we typically dealt with hard drives (internal and external), memory cards, and optical media. The choices to be made—then as now—revolved around how to access the device, giving rise to the concept of order of volatility . Simply put, this…