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Salon On Computer Forensics

Posted by chrisd on from the keep-those-tape-drives-handy dept.

splorf writes "Salon has a good new article on computer forensics, focusing on Lee Tydalska, a guy in Southern California who started collecting old computers and peripherals as a hobby, and now has a nice business doing data recovery from weird and obsolete media for investigators (or normal users who just need media conversion). "It hardly needs saying why this craft has grown in importance", the article says, "but if one word sums it up, it's 'Enron-itis'". Oh yes, the #1 outfit in the field is apparently a UK firm called Vogon International. You've got to love this stuff."

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  1. vogon international by Atilla · · Score: 5, Funny

    "we can recover any data, even punch cards from a planet blown to pieces to make a path for a new hyperspace bypass"

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  2. When I retired an old fileserver.... by dmaxwell · · Score: 5, Funny

    I once had to retire a Mac LC II was the building fileserver. This thing had financials, the private records of students; you name it. I low-leveled the drive and wrote 0's to it. Once that was done, I drilled several holes through the platters. I broke the bit off the drill in the process. The drive with drill bit stub stuck in it looks like Count Datatula with a spike through his heart. We keep the spiked carcass around to show people how to make sure that sensitive data gets destroyed.