iPhone Forensics: Recovering Evidence, Personal Data, and Corporate Assets

I wish the author had just put the info on a free website. The book is just a document, a pamphlet as another reviewer mentioned. I feel a bit ripped-off. In fact, in one place the author actually says "before proceeding, ensure that the firmware ... falls within the range of versions supported by this document." He is referring to the book but calling it a document. I think he intended it to be just a document and O'Reilly convinced him to make it a book so O'Reilly could make some money.

As far as technical material, it's all good and well-written. There are a few cases where it appears the O'Reilly editor might have cluelessly changed a sentence, but those cases are rare compared to some professionally-edited books. There are some typos, even in the author's bio! But few compared to many books. The index was rushed, I'm guessing. It didn't include the items I wanted to find.

The only other caveat I can think of is that if you are considering forensically analyzing your iPhone just for fun, be prepared for quite a bit of work and possible headaches. With firmware 2.x, there are numerous, reasonably complex steps that must be followed. You will need lots of time and patience and little aversion to risk. Note that you are jail-breaking your phone so that you can install utilities in the system partition, which voids the warranty from what I understand. Also, you could brick your iPhone, though in theory you could restore it if there are problems.

All in all, great info for forensics examiners in law-enforcement and corporations. I give it three stars instead of five because of the high price for a pamphlet.

This book is a must-have for anyone even considering doing forensic work on iPhones. I have used the methodology in the book and verified it for myself. Excellent resource!!

Awesome book. The other reviewer that gave it one start clearly did not actually read it, just whine about how thin it is. I found it to be very informative and has a lot of interesting information that has not be published anywhere else.

I normally don't leave reviews but my copy showed up today and I wanted to warn folks. This book is less then 100 pages. Looking closer at the listing it does say 138 but it is 120 with the index. Till you drop out the fluff you're left with little more then a pamphlet. Honestly I never even looked at page count when I pre-ordered as it was an O'Reilly book. It is very thin. Information is okay (still working through it) but to charge $40 for a book this small is ludicrous. I've never been this disappointed in an O'Reilly title - some have been so-so but never a down-right ripoff. My copy will be returning.