Why 'rm -R star' Isn't Enough

zdburke writes: "Short but interesting article in the New York Times (free reg req'd) about how difficult it is to cover your digital tracks because electronic documents are so well distributed -- on your lap top, on your workstation, on the server... Yes there are tools to thoroughly delete files on your computer, rather than just unlinking them when they're put in the trash, but it's the distributed nature of content these days that poses a special problem to the Ollie North's of the world."

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Re:Mirrors

[yesod]

I always loved the low-tech v high-tech design decisions that occured on the space program.

When faced with the problem of how to record notes in space, the US spent their dollars and came up with the Space Pen that would write in zero-gee.

The Russians cosmonauts just used a pencil.