Pierce, Kent. "How Police Can Get Your Deleted Texts, like They Got Kyle Navin's." WWLPcom. N.p., 04 Nov. 2015. Web. 18 Nov. 2015.
On November 3, 2015, Kyle Navin was put on trial for two counts of murder in the deaths of his parents, Jeanette and Jeffrey Navin. The parents went missing in August of this year, and the bodies were eventually found, outside a vacant house in their neighboring town of Weston, Connecticut, on October 29th. It is assumed that Kyle Navin’s motive was that he was threatened by his parents to be cut from their wills. Aside from the details of the murder itself, the article focuses on the evidence that led to Kyle Navin being formally charged. This evidence consists of text messages that the police got from his phone, even messages that had long been deleted. The deleted texts `were accessed by investigators using a new kind of software that is having a huge impact on law enforcement. The software, when connected to a cell phone, needs only 2-3 minutes to download every deleted photo, video, or text that has ever been on the phone. Computer experts say that it is possible to completely wipe out phones, but it would have to be done several times, and even then it wouldn’t guaranteed. Apparently Navin had deleted several text messages that had indicated that he had murdered his parents; the texts were recovered by computer expert investigators.
The contents of this article is extremely relevant in everyone’s lives. Most of us use cellular devices, such as iPhones, to take pictures, videos, and to communicate via text. We are usually under the expression that the texts, photos, or videos that we delete are gone forever, but this article just proves how easy it is for investigators to recover all those things in just the matter of a few minutes. It is good that investigators can use this new software program to find evidence to prosecute suspects, however, it is also shocking to see how easily computer experts can uncover past information that we had no intention for anyone to see.
I think the author did a good job presenting the case and its relevance to each and every one of us. It is interesting to see that humanly trace evidence, such as DNA from blood, is not the only evidence that leads investigators to come to conclusions on a certain case. It was amazing to read how Navin’s uncovered text messages played such a significant role in his case. The article could have gone more into depth about what the texts had said specifically, but we did get a brief idea which was enough to understand why his texts made all the difference in his trial.
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Pierce, Kent. "How Police Can Get Your Deleted Texts, like They Got Kyle Navin's." WWLPcom. N.p., 04 Nov. 2015. Web. 18 Nov. 2015.
I thought that Natalia did a very good job at writing this review, I liked the fact that she explained the importance of this article to the topic of forensics. I also liked how she managed to summarize the article in a reasonable size without making it seem like she just re-wrote the article. I liked the fact that the review was interesting and held my interest.
I thought that although this review was well written, there were some minor grammar errors that could have been corrected. I also thought that although the review was well written, there were some facts in the article that were not correct. For example, the idea that wiping data multiple times is incorrect as of many years ago, it has been proven since that such data is irretrievable after one over-write.
I thought that this article is interesting because it pertains to the issue that people’s lives are tied to technology and everything that you do on such devices is recorded in one way or another. This makes you wonder who else has access to this information(such as geotags in photos).
I thought Natalia did a great job painting a picture of what exactly happened during the Kyle Navin case, she managed to roll up the entire story into a neat summary leaving out the non essentials, making the current event more enjoyable to read. I particularly enjoyed reading about how no matter how many times you wipe it your phone could potentially land you in a jail cell if you're not careful.
a few things Natalia could've done to make this review better would be answering and explaining a few questions such as how this new software works and could it be used for anything of malicious intent? how did he move the bodies to a different location without being noticed.
Pierce, Kent. "How Police Can Get Your Deleted Texts, like They Got Kyle Navin's." WWLPcom. N.p., 04 Nov. 2015. Web. 18 Nov. 2015.
I read the review of the article, “How Police Can Get Your Deleted Texts, like They Got Kyle Navin’s.” by Kent Pierce. Natalia Kaminski was the person that reviewed the article and did a good job keeping me interested and made her article captivating. She opens up with the trial of Kyle Navin which he was charged with two counts of murder of his parents. Her opening sentence had grabbed me in immediately because it had talked about how Kyle’s Parents went missing in August, but their bodies were found the day before halloween. She talks about his motives to kill his parents like that he was threatened by his parents to be cut out from their wills. She discusses evidence used in the court that consists of text messages that the police had retrieved from his cellular device. She also talks about how the messages were retrieved by using a software that when connected to a phone, it downloads every deleted text message or video that was sent to the phone. Natalia describes how this software was helpful to prove Navin had murdered his parents because the investigators deleted several text messages that indicated he murdered his parents. Even though Natalia did a great job with captivating her readers as well as describing the information given to her, there were some areas of improvement. One thing that could have been improved was that she could have gone into further detail about the case and if it was legal for the police to go through his cell phone. Also, she could have gone into the detail of what police need in order to retrieve the data on the phone of the person without breaking the law. I learned so much from reading this article. Natalia did a great job explaining one way the police can get into our personal lives/data legally which can help them. I learned that everything on your phone can be retrieved no matter how long ago you had deleted the information. This article has informed me about how police can get access to anything as well as a new software that can trace a person’s life throughout the data within their cell phone.
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