arstechnica.com — A US special investigator leading the inquiry into Karl Rove has himself been called out for suspicious behavior, after taking several systems to third-party techs for a thorough data wipe that he says was needed because of malware. Right.
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Ensure that you also use full disc encryption. The files that ccleaner removes are not enough to remove evidence from a machine. The MFT tables, slack space and varios temp files along with your pagefile contain all the goodies they need. If you are not using full disc encryption, then at least encrypt your pagefile. BCWipe has an option to do this (jetico.com) and you can at least put your sensitive application in Truecrypt volumes. Windows leaves crap all over the place though, so scratch my last comment. Use full disc encryption. It is cheap. There is no excuse not to.
ryanadcDec 4, 2007
that must've been some really dirty pr0n to need sanitizing the disk that many times...
armandomDec 4, 2007
If the open source project has a backdoor then it's a terribly managed open source project.
lolo2007Jan 18, 2008
Has anyone ever heard of an actual case where a formatted drive had its data recovered? IIRC the computers that Moussaoui used (Kinko's public computers?) were grabbed and examined and they found nothing usable. If ever there was a case for using every possible (expensive) technique, that would be it.<a class="user" href="http://game.paramegsoft.com/">http://game.paramegsoft.com/</a><a class="user" href="http://www.paramegsoft.com/forum/">http://www.paramegsoft.com/forum/</a>