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We do just about everything with our computers -- shopping, gossiping, and, occasionally, actual work. Meanwhile, your hard drive is quietly recording all of it, from Social Security numbers to credit card data to those honeymoon photos you didn't show the in-laws. For the most part, that's a good thing: It's that capacity for instant data retrieval that makes the computer so useful. But for an identity thief, it's a great thing: A whopping third of us leave sensitive information intact when we discard our computers. And even files you've deleted can be easily recovered.
Sometimes, those left-over bits can be valuable clues for crime fighters: The field of digital forensics is revolutionizing detective work say experts, just as DNA evidence did last decade. Watch the above video and step into the high-tech labs of a cutting edge digital forensics firm; learn how investigators reconstruct computer data to solve crimes -- and to win lawsuits. And most importantly, learn how you can delete files so that they're deleted for good. Plus: Recent headlines from the Switched newsroom.
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Subscribe to commentsVal FitzgeraldNov 2nd 2007 7:30AM
Sassysandy:
Wow, get some sleep, will you? Spouting off on stuff you know zilch about, only shows the rest of us how truly dumb you are. Learn some stuff. Such as: The SAUDIS did 9/11 (and no, you poor thing, 'all them Ay-rabs is NOT alike' as someone (probably related to you) e-mailed me').
Saudi Arabia (close family friends and business partners to BushCo)shares a border with IRAQ. IRAQ'S NORTHERN PROVINCE HAS A MASSIVE OILFIELD IN THE KIRKUK REGION. That's why Saddam kept the Kurds (who live there) down. That's why we attacked Saddam--to get the Kurds free of him so that they could sell US their oil--and that's THE ONLY REASON THAT WE'RE IN IRAQ.
Now, Sassy: if it was even a LITTLE BIT like you said--what was that? Oh yeah: "Fight them over there so we don't have to fight them over here (Oh LOL, as IF!)" then right after those 15 passports from the 19 terrorists on those planes were recovered and found to be SAUDI (a BLOOD thing, not just a nationality, look it up, dear) our diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia should have included a nice 20-kiloton NUKE over Riyadh (capital of Saudi Arabia) instead of making war on the Saudis' hereditary deadly enemies, the IRAQIS (the two countries share a common border).
Maybe if you get some sleep, Sassy honey, you can learn some of this in school (instead of sleeping your school day away). Save the computer for weekends, dear--AFTER you've done your homework!