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A new forensic tool introduced by eDEC Digital Forensics (www.edecdigitalforensics.com) of Santa Barbara, CA, an innovator in the field of mobile digital forensics, assisted a DEA investigation by acquiring a treasure trove of evidence from three Chinese cell phones confiscated from a suspected drug trafficker. A sign of the times, the new cell phone analysis tool, called Tarantula, was designed specifically to analyze the millions of Chinese phones flooding into western markets. Criminals have adopted the phones because they are cheap and notoriously difficult to analyze.

Tarantula Chinese Cell Phone Analysis Tool and Eclipse Screen Capture have been released and are now shipping.

Chinese phones have received a lot of hype lately. Whether it's a news article explaining the surprising proliferance of Chinese phones in a certain area, or the earnings report of Mediatek, the fabless semiconductor giant that began and continues to lead the Chinese chipset industry, or the sudden industry focus on solutions that can handle analysis of these devices, it seems we are being confronted with Chinese phones like never before. Our experience up until this point has shown us that quite a few examiners are scratching their heads and wondering, "why"?...

From Fastcompany.com June 14, 2011, By Greg Lindsay

"After being forced out of China and India, Chinese counterfeiters brought their product to the Middle East, where the sudden availability of information had unintended consequences for the region--and for China itself..."

Reaching our across the world in key markets for Chinese cell phones and handsets based on Chinese chipsets, eDEC has introduced a beta version of Tarantula.

eDEC spoke at the 2010 HTCIA Hong Kong conference on the topic of Chinese cell phone analysis

eDEC chose HTCIA Asia 2009 (December 2-4) in Hong Kong to be the platform of release for the Black Hole faraday bag.