In mobile phone forensics as in traditional forensics there is an overarching requirement
that seized items be protected so that the interaction of this evidence with the examiner
during his or her investigation does not change the evidence. In “traditional” digital
forensics we have seen specially formatted boot floppies, software write blocking and
hardware write blocking devices that perform this function. But with wireless devices the
examiner is faced with another challenge-preventing the mobile device from interacting
with the wireless radio network