Similar to Android, most Windows Phone 7.x, 8.x, and Windows 10 Mobile devices can be successfully acquired via the process of JTAG forensics. The process is very similar to that of acquiring Android devices, so refer to JTAG acquisition in the following chapter, JTAG Forensics [p.42].
The chances of successfully JTAGging a Windows smartphone are very high compared to Android devices. However, things happen to change with regard to JTAG acquisition as Windows Phone 8.x devices upgrade to Windows 10 Mobile.
Windows Phone 8 and 8.1 do not offer a user-configurable setting for encrypting the data partition. According to the official Windows Phone 8.1 Security Overview document (which can be downloaded from https://download.microsoft.com/download/B/9/A/B9A00269-28D5-4ACA-9E8E-E2E722B35A7D/Windows-Phone-8-1-Security-Overview.pdf), internal storage can only be encrypted via a corporate security policy by...