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Vista Makes Forensic PC Exam Easier for Lawyers
Katharine writes "Jason Krause, a legal affairs writer for the American Bar Association's 'ABA Journal' reports in the July issue that Windows Vista will be a boon for those looking for forensic evidence of wrongdoing on defendants' PC's and a nightmare for defendants who hoped their past computer activities would not be revealed. Krause quotes attorney R. Lee Barrett, 'From a [legal] defense perspective, [Vista] scares me to death. One of the things I have a hard time educating my clients on is the volume of data that's now discoverable.' This is primarily attributable to Shadow Copy, TxF and Instant Search."
I do all my illegal activities on an Abacus.
Mwa aha hah.
So now with shadow copy Vista not only saves all versions of goatse and tubgirl that I ever will encounter, I'm most likely unable to remove all traces to those pictures from my machine. And with instant search everybody can find them easily.
Now that's progress.
To make sure my Windows is running at peak efficiency and performance, I got into the habit of completely reinstalling Windows every Thursday at 10am.
This habit was developed during Win95, WinSE, WinXP SP1, and WinVista Beta
What? There was evidence there? Ooops, sorry... my standard operating procedure wipes the disk once a week.
D) Or get the "enemy combatant" treatment in order to fork over the password.
But that's where you're wrong. With the upcoming Mac OS X Leopard, I'll just use the built in time machine to go back and cover my tracks. Can Vista do that?
=)
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
But if you went back in time to cover your tracks, there would be no tracks to cover in the present, therefore you wouldnt have to go back in time in the first place. But if you didnt go back in time in the first place, your tracks wouldnt be covered so you'd need to go back and cover them! But if you went back in time to cover your tracks, there would be no tracks to cover in the present, therefore you wouldnt have to go back in time in the first place. But if you didnt go back in time in the first place, your tracks wouldnt be covered so you'd need to go back and cover them! But if you went back in time to cover your tracks, there would be no tracks to cover in the present, therefore you wouldnt have to go back in time in the first place. But if you didnt go back in time in the first place, your tracks wouldnt be covered so you'd need to go back and cover them! (etc...)
Then: you are using Linux, what have you got to hide ?
The next step is: Only criminals use Linux
I have just realised: I am typing this at a Linux box. I had better go down and turn myself in at the cop shop.
You'll be disappointed to learn of Microsoft's new Abacus Retentive Summation Environment (ARSE) tracking extension, which is being made mandatory for all abacuses from 2007 onwards. I guarantee you'll barely notice the performance penalty. :)
the enemy will swipe the computer, kick the sunken chest puny geek in the balls, and take him with them rolled up in a bath towel. (a rug would be unnecessarily large)
then they'll just torture him till he cracks...which should take about 7 seconds.
problem solved.
Spoken like a true socialist.
You can't take the sky from me.
Following on from the runaway success of this http://ubuntusatanic.org/news/ and this http://tinyurl.com/nq9ut, I'm sure we'll soon have MAFIA, paedophile and Goatse *nix distros...the demand is there, c'mon RedHat, what are you waiting for?
I do all my illegal activities on an Abacus.
Red bead attempting to slide right.
Cancel or Allow?
Please stop stalking me, bro.
Arthur Dent: Is it safe? Ford Prefect: It's perfectly safe. It's just us who are in danger. -- Douglas Adams (HHGTTG)
Looks like I'll be making millions with my new software that completely circumvents the Abacus Retentive Summation Environment.
It can't be ARSEd.
Looks like you'll be the first person Microsoft sues for ARSE-Crack.
The Republican's sure aren't going to want to upgrade...
......If there is a court order......
In the US at least is the 5th Amendment still part of the constitution? If you tell the court that giving out the password is like testifying against yourself, does the 5th still protect the accused? Did it ever really work that way?
All theory is gray
If only my ancestors had truly understood the horrible dangers of "pads of paper", whose insidious nature permitted forensic recovery of exact handwritten correspondence. The prosecution needed only a #2 pencil to reveal damaging evidence by merely wiping the edge of the pencil "lead" across the page whose surface had been silently altered to store the impressions of the writer's penmanship.
Besides, I much prefer to use an operating system that not only doesn't keep shadow copies of my work, but rather, in a heroic effort to safeguard my privacy, quickly loses the originals ("file not found", "seek error at track nnnnn", etc.).
I say "boo" to Windows Vista. We don't need no stinkin' backups of our data.