WhatsApp has conquered the way: the instant messaging app owned by Facebook is practically present on each smartphone.His success is not a mystery: practicality and extreme simplicity have made sure that anyone could really use it, even the less practical people of technology.Slight pressure on the screen display, a few seconds to type the message and the communication has already happened.But not only that: the conversations between users are safe because they are protected by a particular mechanism (so-called end-to-end encryption) which allows only the sender and the recipient to be able to read the mutual messages.This does not mean, however, that the police can trace the WhatsApp tables.
All the chats are kept in the tables, even those now deleted that you would not know how to see on your mobile phone simply opening the app.In order to access it, it is necessary to be in possession of suitable instruments: usually, such an operation is entrusted to experts and experts who subject the mobile phone to a real analysis.If you want to know more about this topic, continue reading: we will see together how and when the police get the Whatsapp tables.
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Tabulars: what are they?
What are the tables?In principle (and, therefore, regardless of WhatsApp), the telephone tabulate is nothing more than a document in which all the calls, incoming and outgoing, of a specific user are contained.
In essence, taking a view of a tabulato, you can realize the calls received and those made, as well as their duration;Instead, you will not be able to know the actual conversation: in other words, the tables allow you to know what people said during the call.To do this, a real interception should be used.
In summary, therefore, a telephone tabulate does not contain any data of communication but only the external data;For mobile devices, the telephone tabula also allows you to determine by approximation the geographical area in which the person who was generating the phone call, the SMS message or internet traffic was present.
WhatsApp tables: What are they?
The speech is a little different for the WhatsApp tables: in them, in fact, it is possible to trace the messages sent, as well as to all the attachments, photos, links, videos and anything else has been the subject of conversation.The WhatsApp tables, in practice, represent the historical memory of everything that happened via chat.
What are the WhatsApp tables for?
The WhatsApp tables are used to recover conversations that are no longer visible as deleted.Therefore, you can resort to the extraction of the tables in case you want to recover a chat with an important content, or a file or photo you have sent and that could be useful to assert your reasons.
Not surprisingly, most of the time you resort to the WhatsApp tables to bring a test to court: it is now peaceful jurisprudence that according to which even whatsapp messages can validly enter a procedure, civil or criminal it is, and valid as proof (at leastuntil they are motivated to be contested).
Can police get WhatsApp?
Without a doubt, the judicial police can trace the WhatsApp tables: through the use of special extraction software, the authorities can trace all the chats present within a smartphone, even if deleted.
Obviously, so that the police can proceed so much, there must be a motivated act of the judicial authority: it is therefore necessary that a judge authorizes the police to withdraw the smartphone and to submit it to skill.And in fact, it is not possible to get the WhatsApp tables without having the possession of the mobile phone: for this reason, the police will have to proceed first to the seizure of the smartphone and, subsequently, extract the tables.
How does the police have WhatsApp's tables?
What has just been said means that the police cannot ask for directly to WhatsApp: by virtue of the particular system (so-called end-to-end encryption, which even prevents the provider of the service from viewing the conversation) that protects conversations, only by accessing thesmartphones involved can be traced back to the tables.
To do this, there are two alternatives:
Proceeding the drawing of the tables is quite simple: there are special software (so -called Mobile Forensics software) allow you to perform a full acquisition of mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets and cell phones, generating a forensic image that can then be analyzed in theScope of an expert report on the smartphone.
Within the forensic analysis software of smartphones it will be possible to view the entire tabulato of WhatsApp messages, including both the sent messages and those, as well as those deleted still on the mobile phone.
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