phone extraction device

[Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli]

On Sun, 2011-10-02 at 04:12 +0200, Rashid wrote:
> "You may have heard about the Cellebrite cell phone extraction device
> (UFED) in the news lately. It gives law enforcement officials the
> ability to access all the information on your cell phone within a few
> short minutes."
> 
> http://translogic.aolautos.com/2011/04/29/police-device-used-to-steal-your-cell-phone-data-during-traffic/
> 
> Does it work at free runners too? (Well a debug board could probably do
> it but hey).
I guess no one got one to test...

PS: I wonder what's the relation between rooting a phone and that
device(does the device need to root the phone to gather certain
informations?).

Denis.