Alexander Plaza
Mr.Ippolito
12/6/17
Forensics Review
Hays, Holly V., and Vic Ryckaert. “It Took Two Years for Cops to Crack the Dead Woman's Phone. Here's How They Got in.” Indianapolis Star, IndyStar, 5 Dec. 2017, www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2017/12/05/electronic-footprint-sand-digital-forensics-technology-allows-investigators/915526001/.
I read the article “It Took Two Years for Cops to Crack the Dead Woman's Phone. Here's How They Got in” by the Indiana Star. The article talks about how it took the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police investigators to look at the phone of an 18 year old woman who had committed suicide. It turns out that one police officer had handled the phone deleting dozens of photos. He faces charges of obstruction of justice and digital trespassing. The article talks about how the law must constantly keep up with the advancement of technology and to monitor the “electronic footprint” of people. The article also brings up the controversial question of whether the government has the legal right to access emails, texts and other digital communications, bringing up concerns about privacy and the trade off with safety. The article continues explaining that a digital forensics company called Cellebrite Services was able to bypass the security on the phone to provide investigators with evidence.Marion County Prosecutor Terry Curry said, “Without the ability to extract the information off of the young woman’s phone, there would have been no capability whatsoever to file this case”. It is a constant cycle of cell phone manufacturers improving security and digital forensic companies bypassing security.
This article is very pertinent to the state of forensics at the moment. As technology continues to improve and continues to be a part of society today, Law enforcement must keep up and constantly improve to be able to gather all possible information about crimes, especially digital forensics companies. Eventually, the trade off between privacy and security must be completely addressed.
Overall, I think this article did a very good job. It took on a tough topic and shed light on the changing landscape of the field of forensics and law enforcement in the information age. One thing I think the article could do better is go into more detail about the debate on privacy versus public safety. If it did this, I think it would be a more complete article. Nonetheless the article does well to provide an intro to the subject.
15 comments:
Zach Zucker
Hays, Holly V., and Vic Ryckaert. “It Took Two Years for Cops to Crack the Dead Woman's Phone. Here's How They Got in.” Indianapolis Star, IndyStar, 5 Dec. 2017, www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2017/12/05/electronic-footprint-sand-digital-forensics-technology-allows-investigators/915526001/.
From Alex’s review of “It Took Two Years for Cops to Crack the Dead Woman's Phone. Here's How They Got in.”, I felt that I was able to learn many new things that he explained. Alex incited many great details in his review. For example, Alex did a good job explaining the background of the story and kept the timeline throughout the review very clear. This made it easy for readers to understand his review. Secondly, Alex added quotes from the article which gives the reader another incite about what others thought about the case. For example, Alex used the quote “Without the ability to extract the information off of the young woman’s phone, there would have been no capability whatsoever to file this case”.. Also, I thought Alex did a good job on adding his own thoughts and opinions into the review rather than just straight facts.
Although, Alex could add a few more ideas to his review to make it perfect. First, I think that Alex should add more about the forensics part of the crime. Along with this, there are parts where Alex can make his point more clear and concise through the review.
Overall, I think Alex did a good job summarizing the article and adding his own thoughts and opinions. I found this review interesting and informative because I have never heard of this case and I am happy Alex brought up this article for his review.
Martha Thomas
12/6/2017
It Took Two Years for Cops to Crack the Dead Woman's Phone. Here's How They Got in.
Hays, Holly V., and Vic Ryckaert. “It Took Two Years for Cops to Crack the Dead Woman's Phone. Here's How They Got in.” Indianapolis Star, IndyStar, 5 Dec. 2017, www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2017/12/05/electronic-footprint-sand-digital-forensics-technology-allows-investigators/915526001/.
Alex Plaza did a great job reviewing “It Took Two Years For Cops to Crack The Dead Woman’s Phone. Here’s How They Got In.” He made compelling statements about the importance of both privacy and public safety, an issue that the article touched upon. Alex shed light on a critical and appalling moment when a police officer deleted photos from a suicide victim’s cell-phone. He is now being charged with obstruction of justice. This anecdote caught my attention. Alex also connected this event with the “information age,” feeling that the government needed to develop more technology to better track citizens’ “electronic footprints.” I respected his firm stance on this issue.
Alex could have improved his review by including direct quotes from the article. I also wish Alex had specified what the deleted images depicted, and why the police officer deleted them. There was much left unsaid about this specific case.
I learned a lot from this review. I had never considered the ethical controversy of police investigating phone conversations and images. Ultimately, I think public safety is more important, and am glad that Alex exposed me to this issue.
Ayten El-Hennawy
Current Event 10
12/6/17
Hays, Holly V., and Vic Ryckaert. “It Took Two Years for Cops to Crack the Dead Woman's Phone. Here's How They Got in.” Indianapolis Star, IndyStar, 5 Dec. 2017, www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2017/12/05/electronic-footprint-sand-digital-forensics-technology-allows-investigators/915526001/.
Alex’s review of the article “It Took Two Years for Cops to Crack the Dead Woman's Phone. Here's How They Got in.” was very interesting to read. I like how Alex included many details throughout his review. I also liked how he gave us a clear idea of what exactly was going on by stating some background information and some quotes like “Without the ability to extract the information off of the young woman’s phone, there would have been no capability whatsoever to file this case”. I also think he did a good job elaborating on his own opinion regarding this article.
I think Alex could’ve maybe done a better job by explaining what exactly was displayed in the pictures that were deleted, I also think that it would’ve been better if he stated why the police thought it was necessary to delete those specific pictures.
Lastly, I think i learned alot from this review as it was a very interesting topic to read about.
Scott McGrath
12/6/2017
It Took Two Years for Cops to Crack the Dead Woman's Phone. Here's How They Got in.
Hays, Holly V., and Vic Ryckaert. “It Took Two Years for Cops to Crack the Dead Woman's Phone. Here's How They Got in.” Indianapolis Star, IndyStar, 5 Dec. 2017, www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2017/12/05/electronic-footprint-sand-digital-forensics-technology-allows-investigators/915526001/.
Alex did a very job reviewing this article. The article talks about how a police officer deleted photos off of an 18 year old girl who committed suicide. They talk about how the officer is facing charges of obstruction of justice and how they eventually cracked the phone's security. A tech industry bypassed the phone's security and provide investigators with the evidence previously unavailable to them. The article also discusses the topic regarding whether or not the government should have access to this information.
Something Alex did very well was explain the article. He made it easy to understand and that is always appreciated. Another thing I thought he did very well was adding quotations. This makes it more like the original article, allowing us readers to just read the review. Lastly, something I thought Alex did very well was incorporate his opinion. He made his viewpoint clear and gave it a more personal aspect.
Despite these positives, there were some negatives. I feel as if the review were a little rushed, the pacing seemed to be a little off. Another thing that could have been done better was add a little more depth to the review, it was rather short.
One thing that blew my mind was that an officer obstructed the investigation on a suicide. I am just shocked as to why one would do that. Overall, I found this review very interesting and think that Alex did a very good job writing it.
Hays, Holly V., and Vic Ryckaert. “It Took Two Years for Cops to Crack the Dead Woman's Phone. Here's How They Got in.” Indianapolis Star, IndyStar, 5 Dec. 2017, www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2017/12/05/electronic-footprint-sand-digital-forensics-technology-allows-investigators/915526001/.
From Alex’s review of the article “It Took Two Years for Cops to Crack the Dead Woman's Phone. Here's How They Got in.”, I was able to learn many new things. Alex included many great details in his review of the article. I thought Alex did a good job of adding in his own thoughts rather than just facts. He also did a good job explaining the background of the story and kept the timeline of events very clear, which made it easy for me to understand. Alex pulled some quotes from the article which gives the reader more insight on what others thought about the case. Alex did a great job but there are a few things he could do to improve his review. First off Alex should’ve add more about the forensic part of the crime and how it relates to our class. There were also a few points were his opinion was confusing even though it added to the overall review. I think Alex did a good job summarizing the article and by adding his own ideas it made it better. I thought this was a very interesting article and something that I had not heard about in the past so it was nice to hear about it.
Liam Grealy
Current Event #10
December 7 2017
Forensics
Mr. ippolito
Hays, Holly V., and Vic Ryckaert. “It Took Two Years for Cops to Crack the Dead Woman's Phone. Here's How They Got in.” Indianapolis Star, IndyStar, 5 Dec. 2017, https://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2017/12/05/electronic-footprint-sand-digital-forensics-technology-allows-investigators/915526001/
In this current event article, Alex Plaza was able to accurately summarize the article, “It Took Two Years for Cops to Crack the Dead Woman's Phone. Here's How They Got in” by the Indiana Star. This article was mostly about how it took the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police investigators to look at the phone of an 18 year old woman who had committed suicide. Alex Plaza did a good job touching upon the important point of this article, describing how the controversial question of whether the government has the legal right to access emails, texts and other digital communications. In addition to this, Alex Plaza was able to talk about the relevance of this article, because technology continues to improve and is a huge part of our daily lives and law enforcement must keep up and constantly improve to be able to gather all possible information about crimes. A last thing Alex Plaza did well, was criticize what the author could have done to make the article better. I agree with Alex Plaza and saying that the article was unclear and he could have summed up the important points better and included more detail at some points.
Although Alex Plaza did a good job addressing the main points, I think he could have gave more details in his summary and explained his view on this topic. Another thing Alex Plaza could have done was improve his grammar and format of paper. There were times where he could have made the order more efficient. One last thing that Alex Plaza could have worked on was add additional information on the topic, although he did a good job summarizing it I had to go back into the article to clear up any questions that he missed.
One thing I was impressed with from reading this article was explained that a digital forensics company called Cellebrite Services was able to bypass the security on the phone to provide investigators with evidence.
Andy Goldbaum CE 10 12/6/17 D Even
Hays, Holly V., and Vic Ryckaert. “It Took Two Years for Cops to Crack the Dead Woman's Phone. Here's How They Got in.” Indianapolis Star, USA Today Network, 5 Dec. 2017, www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2017/12/05/electronic-footprint-sand-digital-forensics-technology-allows-investigators/915526001/.
Alexander Plaza wrote a thoughtful yet concise review of “It Took Two Years for Cops to Crack the Dead Woman’s Phone. Here’s How They Got in”, an article featured in the Indianapolis Star written by Holly V Hays and Vic Ryckaert. Plaza was concise in his summary by describing the basic details of what happened in the case and stating what the controversy was while giving an example of why less privacy for the user by finding a workaround to a safety feature can still be beneficial to many forensic cases without going into too much detail about how exactly they got in and giving too many examples to illustrate the controversy. Plaza also effectively stated how the content of the article related to humanity by describing how better law enforcement and user privacy on technology seem to work against one another and how that needs to be addressed to ensure a maximally safe populace. Lastly, Plaza also effectively summarized what the article did well and how the article could have been improved by giving an example of how it stayed relevant to the most important topic at hand, forensics, and another actual example of something the article did not explain thoroughly enough.
An aspect of Plaza’s review that could have been improved was that the summary should have given the two most important details for how the police got into the phone. Those details were both the main idea of the article as well as an important connection to the job of forensic investigators. Another aspect of Plaza’s review that could have been improved was describing how the article related to humanity. Although he technically answered the question, he merely did so by restating the contents of the article rather than including a new thought of his own on the matter.
A learning experience I had while reading the article is that forensic investigators can work against the free market, but both sides may be doing it for the best interest of people’s safety. This increased my life understanding by showing me that there is still moral ambiguity in law enforcement, and just because an opposing side is wearing a badge does not necessarily that the law is right to fight a corporate entity.
Damian Kaminski
Forensics D-odd
December 6th
Hays, Holly V., and Vic Ryckaert. “It Took Two Years for Cops to Crack the Dead Woman's Phone. Here's How They Got in.” Indianapolis Star, IndyStar, 5 Dec. 2017, www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2017/12/05/electronic-footprint-sand-digital-forensics-technology-allows-investigators/915526001/.
From Alex’s review of the article “It Took Two Years for Cops to Crack the Dead Woman's Phone. Here's How They Got in.”, I was able to learn many new things. Alex included many great details in his review of the article. I thought Alex did a good job of adding in his own thoughts rather than just facts. He also did a good job explaining the background of the story and kept the timeline of events very clear, which made it easy for me to understand. Alex pulled some quotes from the article which gives the reader more insight on what others thought about the case.
Alex did a great job but there are a few things he could do to improve his review. First off Alex should’ve add more about the forensic part of the crime and how it relates to our class. There were also a few points were his opinion was confusing even though it added to the overall review. I think Alex did a good job summarizing the article and by adding his own ideas it made it better. I thought this was a very interesting article and something that I had not heard about in the past so it was nice to hear about it.
Kevin Formato
Current Event #10
December 10 2017
Forensics
Mr. ippolito
Hays, Holly V., and Vic Ryckaert. “It Took Two Years for Cops to Crack the Dead Woman's Phone. Here's How They Got in.” Indianapolis Star, IndyStar, 5 Dec. 2017, www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2017/12/05/electronic-footprint-sand-digital-forensics-technology-allows-investigators/915526001/.
I really enjoyed Alex’s review of the article “It Took Two Years for Cops to Crack the Dead Woman's Phone. Here's How They Got in.” I learned a lot of different things about how if the someone is hurt or killed does the government has the legal right to access emails, texts and other digital communications, bringing up concerns about privacy and the trade off with safety. A Lot of people believe that we should have more privacy but we live in a world where I belive that can't happen in my opinion. Alex also did a great job added a lot of background info on the story which made it much easier to read. Finally he added alot of quotes from the article which gave us a more direct understanding of the text If I was going to add anything I would've added more on forensic sciences And at parts for me it was hard to understand Overall it though it was a great review
YiFei Wu
Current Event #11
12/14/2017
Forensics
Mr. Ippolito
Hays, Holly V., and Vic Ryckaert. “It Took Two Years for Cops to Crack the Dead Woman's Phone. Here's How They Got in.” Indianapolis Star, IndyStar, 5 Dec. 2017, www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2017/12/05/electronic-footprint-sand-digital-forensics-technology-allows-investigators/915526001/.
Alexander Plaza wrote a thoughtful yet concise review of “It Took Two Years for Cops to Crack the Dead Woman’s Phone. Here’s How They Got in”, an article featured in the Indianapolis Star written by Holly V Hays and Vic Ryckaert. Alex did a great job on summarizing the original post. As well as giving us the details in the original post. "The article talks about how it took the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police investigators to look at the phone of an 18 year old woman who had committed suicide. It turns out that one police officer had handled the phone deleting dozens of photos. He faces charges of obstruction of justice and digital trespassing. The article talks about how the law must constantly keep up with the advancement of technology and to monitor the “electronic footprint” of people. " This quote clearly summarized the issue stated in the original post. He also did a good job explaining the background of the story and kept the timeline of events very clear, which made it easy for me to understand. Alex pulled some quotes from the article which gives the reader more insight on what others thought about the case.
Overall, Alex did a great job on his current event, the thing I think he can improve is he could add more forensic stuff in his comment. As well as more quotes from the original post.
I think his review is very helpful for us nowadays about technology related to forensic. It is relatable to our life.
This week my classmate Alexander Plaza did a current event on the article “It Took Two Years for Cops to Crack the Dead Woman's Phone. Here's How They Got in.” which was written by Holly V. Hays. The article that was published in Indianapolis Star talks about how privacy and new technology affects evidence after an 18 year old woman committed suicide. The first thing that I was surprised about in this article was that an officer actually deleted photos off the phone. This deletion affected possible evidence in the case. I was also surprised that there was a forensics company, Cellebrite Services, that dedicated to digital things forensics. Finally, when Alex wrote, “The article also brings up the controversial question of whether the government has the legal right to access emails, texts and other digital communications, bringing up concerns about privacy and the trade off with safety.” I was surprised that there was no set law with how to deal with a situation like this. Although modern technology is fairly new, it's been around for about 20 years.
Although Alex did a great job on his current event, I felt there was two things he could do better. First of which was to include more quotes. He only included one quote, but the article touched on many subjects. I felt this could've helped with the readers comprehension of the article. Secondly, when talking about the deleted photos, I wish he specified more on the topic. It is unclear how many photos were deleted, and what they were of. By including this, he couldve let us know about the severity of the issue.
This article was very interesting to read. I liked how it tackled various issues throughout this one case. I think with our society should have advancing laws and forensic techniques to deal with this new digital age.
Hays, Holly V., and Vic Ryckaert. “It Took Two Years for Cops to Crack the Dead Woman's Phone. Here's How They Got in.” Indianapolis Star, IndyStar, 5 Dec. 2017, www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2017/12/05/electronic-footprint-sand-digital-forensics-technology-allows-investigators/915526001/.
I read Alex’s review of the article “It Took Two Years for Cops to Crack the Dead Woman's Phone. Here's How They Got in.” I thought Alex did a good job of adding in his own thoughts rather than just facts. He also did a good job explaining the background of the story and kept the timeline of events very clear, which made it easy for me to understand. Alex pulled some quotes from the article which gives the reader more insight on what others thought about the case.
Although Alex did a great job on his current event, I felt there was two things he could do better. First of which was to include more quotes. He only included one quote, but the article touched on many subjects. I felt this could've helped with the readers comprehension of the article. Secondly, when talking about the deleted photos, I wish he specified more on the topic. It is unclear how many photos were deleted, and what they were of. By including this, he could've let us know about the severity of the issue.
This increased my life understanding by learning that a digital forensics company called Cellebrite Services was able to bypass the security on the phone to provide investigators with evidence.
Lily Monahan
Forensic Science
Current Event 12
December 15th, 2017
Hays, Holly V., and Vic Ryckaert. “It Took Two Years for Cops to Crack the Dead Woman's Phone. Here's How They Got in.” Indianapolis Star, IndyStar, 5 Dec. 2017, www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2017/12/05/electronic-footprint-sand-digital-forensics-technology-allows-investigators/915526001/.
I read Alex Plaza Current event on the article “It Took Two Years for Cops to Crack the Dead Woman's Phone. Here's How They Got in.” He was extremely detailed in his summary, which made it easy for me to understand. He also incorporated a lot of quotes, which is something that added to the review.
I think that Alex couls have been the review a little longer, since it was pretty complicated. Another thing Alex could've added to make it stronger was a little more explanation about the relation of the case to forensics and some more information about how forensics was used.
Overall, I found this interesting because everyone I know owns a cellphone, and I have always wondered how cellphones are accessed after they die and the legality of it all.
Isabella Dibbini
Mr. Ippolito
Forensics
7 January 2018
Hays, Holly V., and Vic Ryckaert. “It Took Two Years for Cops to Crack the Dead Woman's Phone. Here's How They Got in.” Indianapolis Star, IndyStar, 5 Dec. 2017, www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2017/12/05/electronic-footprint-sand-digital-forensics-technology-allows-investigators/915526001/.
Alex wrote an excellent review on the article: “It Took Two Years for Cops to Crack the Dead Woman's Phone. Here's How They Got in” by the Indian Star. To start with, Alex developed an accurate summary of the article, including all of the main arguments. In addition, his review is detailed, making it very interesting. Lastly, he does a good job of supporting his ideas with quotes from the article. For example, he quotes Marion County Prosecutor Terry Curry, when he states, “Without the ability to extract the information off of the young woman’s phone, there would have been no capability whatsoever to file this case”.
Overall, this review is extremely well written, however, there are a few small things that would make it even better. For instance, Alex could incorporate more detail into his review to make his argument more compelling. Lastly, if he wanted to take his review to the next level, he could have obtained outside information and incorporated this into his article.
After reading Alex’s review of the article “It Took Two Years for Cops to Crack the Dead Woman's Phone. Here's How They Got in” by the Indian Star, I learned a lot of new information that I was previously unaware of. Overall, I really enjoyed reading this review and believe that Alex did a great job.
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