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Salon On Computer Forensics
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."
"Awareness of computer security as a whole is kind of on the upswing," says Laura Koetzle, an analyst with Forrester Research. "As mainstream companies get more interested in computer security and realize that they don't know very much about it, there's more of a market for it."
You would think that watching their software products get constantly infected by viruses would have brought this about?
Oh well, maybe with a heightened sense of security they might get their software patched more often or perhaps switch to an operating system that isn't such a target to script kiddies.
It clearly shows that the moderators are too young and never saw a 8" floppy disk. Ah, youngsters of today don't value old hardware anymore.