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Who knows more about you than your loved one or your mother? Excluding major technology corporations, the answer is likely your smartphone. Whether it is an Android or iOS device, this compact, transistor-dense companion holds a vast repository of personal information that, when meticulously parsed and analyzed, can yield a highly accurate profile of its owner.
In an era where leading technology companies have increasingly implemented security measures to safeguard data from unauthorized access (except when such data can be harvested and monetized by data vendors), a critical question arises: how can one extract this data from a device fortified with robust security protocols? Be it law enforcement agencies or curious academic minds, the following paper aims to provide an overview of the techniques employed to successfully extract data from a modern Android or iOS device.