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What is Dump Data: To reveal the blasts in Delhi, investigating agencies have now started releasing dump data. After all, what is this dump data and how is it recovered?
New Delhi. After the blast near the Red Fort in the capital, the investigation agencies have also focused their attention on social media and an exercise has been started to collect dump data from many nearby areas. The investigating agencies have started collecting dump data of all the mobile phones operating in the area around the Red Fort. They believe that the dump data can provide clues about phone numbers that may be related to this car blast. For this, dump data of Red Fort parking and its surroundings is also being obtained.
Investigative agencies believe that the people sitting in the vehicle in which the explosion occurred must have interacted with each other in some way or the other. Therefore, the data of all the phones being used in parking is being considered important. In Faridabad also, the communication between the guilty people is being traced through dump data. This will help us know how many people were communicating with each other. Only through this data, whatever conversation might have taken place between the people responsible for the blast, can be traced.
What is dump data?
Dump data, as its name suggests, is data that is not needed. Generally, such data is neither traced in advance nor is there any need for it. Crores of people talk on mobile every day and their data is not used unless needed. In simple words, it is a kind of raw data, which is used only as backup. However, this data also includes records etc.
What do you get from dump data?
Not only call records are recovered from dump data, but other types of data are also recovered from it. Like deleted WhatsApp chats from phone or laptop, deleted photos from gallery, call records, SMS, Google or Internet browser history, data from Instagram, Facebook and other social media platforms can also be recovered from it.
How much time does the data take to recover?
If someone has a normal Android phone then it takes only 2 to 6 hours to recover the dumped data, but from a modern mobile like iPhone, this data can be recovered in 24 to 72 hours. FSL report also comes in 15 days to 6 months. This means that collecting data through FSL may take time. Also, if someone’s phone has been factory reset and the data has been overwritten, then nothing is available. Also, data is not able to be retrieved from a phone which is very old or damaged or whose chip is damaged.
