By Skip Weaver

Jim Swauger, a partner at Binary Intelligence, explains how his company, Binary Intelligence, extracts information from computers and cellphones. They are the only company in the U.S. doing Chip Off Forensics commercially, which is the process of removing the memory chip from the motherboard and repairing it. They read the chip with a specialized programmer to obtain a forensic image of it. Courtesy of Samantha Grier

A local company in Franklin, Ohio is recovering critical data from cellphones and computers that can be critical to police investigations and court cases.

Jim Swauger and Jim Hawke were on the ground floor of computer forensics in 1997 when they were among the four original members of the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation’s Computer Crimes Unit for the Attorney General’s Office.

Now, the pair have combined their expertise as business partners at Binary Intelligence LLC, a private company Swauger began in 2000.

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Source: Journal News