Device retrieves secret texts years after being deleted

It's a technological breakthrough that will worry cheating partners - secret text messages can now be retrieved from mobilephones five years after they were deleted.

Shaped like an ice hockey puck, the XRY forensic device mines old SIM cards for long-erased nuggets of personal information.



Kim Khor is director of Khor Wills & Associates - which handles mobile forensics for Australian police, private companies and suspicious individuals keen to catch wayward spouses. He says old text messages can be easily found.

Mr Khor and associate Gary Coulthart - armed with a suitcase of gadgetry including laptops and scanning devices - travel around Australia to retrieve private information from mobile phones in minutes.

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