Originally Posted by
Road_Hog
Erm, because first off, it would be more likely to be intact if it was orange rather than a barbecued colour and secondly, it would less likely to have been tampered with if it was unopened.
1/ Such devices are built precisely to survive crashs (or at last, the data they contain). A fire that didn't melt the (unarmored) support parts seems pretty innocuous IMO, re: data preservation.
2/ As the memory module (which is the armored part, that should remain as intact as possible to protect the data) is unopened -as far as I can tell- the data have no chance to have been tampered with IMO.