Quality control for applications often suffers due to the demands of the market. Poor quality control or a complete lack thereof means that applications often enter the marketplace with inaccurate claims. Applications may advertise that no data is ever written or stored on a device or that data is indecipherable due to encryption, but the following slides will provide examples of applications that didn’t get it just right the first time around.

In addition to quality control concerns, app features and functionalities often change overnight, and with each new software revision should come the opportunity to test that these changes haven’t broken or altered the ability to extract relevant data that may have been impenetrable before.

The following slides highlight the importance of verifying an application maker’s claims when searching for “secret” or “disappearing” data.