Bill Thompson

What remains on this phone?

What was it being used for?

I would do this in the military so that when we did do an operation and I was part of some of the largest ones ever done out in Afghanistan, there would be treasure troves of phones and all of these computers and stuff like that.

And it was my job.

And I had a great team that worked for me.

In 20, my deployment in 2015, we would go in afterwards, gather up all of this stuff.

And, you know, the task force commander would literally be standing by.

And we'd say, you know, here's the intelligence that we've derived.

Here's the multi point analysis here.

You know, it was on this hard drive, it was here was here, you know, there's a bad guy place out here.

And those guys be rolling, like within moments after the last operation, like some operations we do where we'd be rolling one after another target.

Because we were getting really good at media forensics and the intelligence that was there.

And then getting into active media forensics, which is a different discipline.

But essentially, I can get into that later if you want to.

But launching and doing these follow-on operations off, dumping the binary from a phone and examining it at the ones and zeros level to say everything that was going on with this thing.

Or if it was a really high level.

Like the organization that I worked for at that time did the analysis of the Osama Bin Laden media.

And on that media, we're doing far more than we would for another piece of media in that we're x-raying it and we're looking at maybe what the disk looked like before or what was destroyed or reconstructing things, spending millions of dollars on that intelligence analysis because we wanted to fully understand everything that this guy was involved in and what he was doing and where he was and who he was talking to.

And so that was another part of my career that I did for about five years or so.

I mean, some of them were coming out implanted.