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Protect Your Internet Privacy "Deleted" Files Remain on Your Computer
Privacy Suite software allows you to erase data using wipe methods that exceed standards set by the United States Department of Defense for secure file erasure (DoD 5220.22). 100% Vista compatible Privacy Suite software supports Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 3.x. System Requirements
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COFEE was developed by Anthony Fung, a former Hong Kong police officer
who now works as a senior investigator on Microsoft's Internet Safety
Enforcement Team. Fung conceived of the device following discussions he
had at a 2006 law enforcement technology conference sponsored by Microsoft.
The device is used by more than 2,000 officers in at least 15 countries. http://en. wikipedia. org/ wiki/ Computer_Online_Forensic_Evidence_Extractor ".. Anti-forensics has only recently been recognized as a legitimate field of study. Within this field of study, numerous definitions of anti-forensics abound. One of the more widely known and accepted definitions comes from Dr. Marc Rogers of Purdue University. Dr. Rogers uses a more traditional "crime scene" approach when defining anti-forensics. "Attempts to negatively affect the existence, amount and/or quality of evidence from a crime scene, or make the analysis and examination of evidence difficult or impossible to conduct" A more abbreviated definition is given by Scott Berinato in his article entitled, The Rise of Anti-Forensics. "Anti-forensics is more than technology. It is an approach to criminal hacking that can be summed up like this: Make it hard for them to find you and impossible for them to prove they found you." Interestingly, neither author takes into account the user who uses anti-forensics methods to ensure personal data is kept private .. Disk cleaning utilities use a variety of methods to overwrite the existing data on disks. The effectiveness of disk cleaning utilities as anti-forensic tools is often challenged as some believe they are not completely effective. Experts who don't believe that disk cleaning utilities are acceptable for disk sanitization base their opinions off current DOD policy, which states that the only acceptable form of sanitization is degaussing. Disk cleaning utilities are also criticized because they leave signatures that the file system was wiped, which in some cases is unacceptable .. File wiping utilities are used to delete individual files from an operating system. The advantage of file wiping utilities is that they can accomplish their task in a relatively short amount of time as opposed to disk cleaning utilities which take much longer. Another advantage of file wiping utilities is that they generally leave a much smaller signature than disk cleaning utilities. There are two primary disadvantages of file wiping utilities, first they require user involvement in the process and second some experts believe that file wiping programs don't always correctly and completely wipe file information. Some of the widely used file wiping utilities include R-Wipe & Clean, Eraser, Aevita Wipe & Delete and CyberScrubs PrivacySuite .." http://en. wikipedia. org/ wiki/ Anti-computer_forensics Copyright © 1999-2009Delete Search.Com |