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For your phone, the data is encryption keys on the phone without apple's house, we just can't access it. >> but if the apple phones were found in this scenario, and apple helped out with the investigation, they would be easy to get the information off because the chips probably would be in pretty good shape? >> sure. it would be the same process. >> so, chad, let me just ask you a question. obviously with the breaking news tonight that the search area is moving, and there is no leads at this point, what if it takes them months, a year, years from now to find the plane and the phones? after all...

Worked. eight days in saltwater. well got all of the information off that we put on, and more information that we thought we had deleted before we gave them our phone. >> i'm even more in awe when you're saying that was under three miles of pressure in ice-cold temperatures for weeks. and new you put 700 degree temperatures on and it's still there. it gets even more amazing. but here is a question. does it matter what kind of phone you have, whether you have a samsung, whether you have an iphone? >> well, they get all the phone, all different phones in here, as you might imagine from the flip ...

Know that something happened very, very quickly. >> ted, i guess i'm curious, when these phones are found are they going to be sent -- i spouse to somebody like you, chad, to go through? >> well, the problem, too, and if they're not handled properly when they are pulled out of the water, whether it is the ferry case or flight 370, that can really make it difficult. so hopefully these phones will be treated properly, right? because if they're not they could be trouble. >> absolutely, so within an hour after they pulled your phone out of the aquarium and let it dry off the corrosion on there was...

Drafts of e-mails, i'm sure there's video testimonials that people made. >> reporter: chad goff is a partner at ford discovery, a computer forensics company in chicago. he says after several weeks or months in the ocean, unsent texts, e-mails and videos can still be retrieved from electronic devices. >> it is a matter of finding the devices to determine what kind of damage was associated with them, and handling them properly. >> reporter: handling them properly is the key, like retrieving a flight data recorder, a cell phone or computer would have to be kept in water until ready to be analyzed...