Bollywood’s ‘Chhote Nawab’ i.e. Saif Ali Khan was attacked with a knife in his own house late last night. The attacker attacked him six times consecutively and later fled from there. Many theories have emerged in this case as to who was the attacker? But more importantly, it was technology that helped police track down the attacker. After all, which technology came into use in police work?
Police used data dump technique to identify Saif Ali Khan’s attacker. This revealed the location of his phone and later confirmed the identity of the attacker. With the help of CCTV footage, the police was successful in confirming the identity.
What is data dump technique?
Police collected data dump around Saif Ali Khan’s house to identify the accused. The data dump is actually the data of the mobile towers installed in that area. Police took data dumps from all the mobile towers in the area at the time of the attack and based on that they were able to trace the attacker.
Only a limited number of mobile phone towers are installed in any area. With the help of these towers, all the mobile phones operating in that area get the network. In such a situation, data dump technology shows how many phones were connected to a particular tower at a particular time. It also gives information about when the phone was active and when it was off. However, this is only used to locate a phone, not a person.
Each mobile tower stores this data when the phone is connected. Whenever a phone is connected to a tower, an account is created on it, then when the phone leaves the range of one tower and reaches another tower, its log is created on the tower also.
The data stored in the data dump includes the IMEI number, MAC address, IP address and location associated with the phone, and other meta data. Using various software, police can also collect information such as a user’s call logs, text messages, files, browsing history and e-mails.
