Apple Maps - Visited Location? Ian Whiffin - 27th February 2024 Was an Apple Maps route location actually visited - and the journey it takes to get the answer.
BrowserState.db last_visited_time? Ian Whiffin - 24th November 2023 A blog to answer a fairly common question about Safari's BrowserState.db and the meaning of last_visited_time.
KnowledgeC Complete(ish) Ian Whiffin - 21th August 2023 A close look at knowledgeC and attempt to answer some of those lingering questions.
Despite knowledgeC's seeming retirement it is still good to know.
iOS Media Adjustments Ian Whiffin - 26th October 2021 iOS now allows users to "Adjust" the time and location of recorded media. What affect will that have on forensic examinations?
A Hundred Million TimeStamps Ian Whiffin - 27th Jan 2020 A look at a large number of different TimeStamp formats in use.
Gives examples of what each timestamp looks like, describes how to convert it to a human readable format and provides a calculator to work them out.
7bit PDU (GSM-7) Ian Whiffin - 25th November 2019 A look at 7bit PDU - an important but often overlooked encoding method for SMS Messages.
This came about a couple of years ago when a phone I had to examine had messages live on screen that my forensics tool couldn't find. After researching 7bit PDU I was able to manually recover over 500 SMS important to the case.
KnowledgeC (and Friends) Ian Whiffin - 23rd October 2019 KnowledgeC is a common database in recent iOS Versions that holds a wealth of information.
This is far from the first time it's been written about, but it ties in perfectly with some software I've been working on and seemed like a nice article for my first blog.
Welcome to DoubleBlak.com! Ian Whiffin - 23rd October 2019 A little bit about me and my new website.
Why I did it and what you can expect to find here.