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Re: Forensics: USB fobs
From: "William Watson" <wawatson () ntlworld com>
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 00:57:49 -0000
As far as the 'normal' filesystem goes, there should be no image left of the old file contents ... HOWEVER ... It seems that each USB memory device contains spare memory areas (around 3% on a 1Gbyte device) which are used to implement "wear-levelling" (I guess in much the same way that magnetic discs have spare sectors). Maybe it is these spare areas which Autopsy can recover. It is also "well known" that there is no secure way to delete the contents of a flash memory device. Part of this is due to the spare wear-levelling sectors; the rest ... ???? Cheers, William ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Aitel" <dave () immunityinc com> To: "dailydave" <dailydave () lists immunitysec com> Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 10:34 AM Subject: [Dailydave] Forensics: USB fobs
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Someone yesterday at a conference talk I went to told the crowd that you can overwrite a file (aka srm it) on a USB Key fob and it will still be there for Autopsy to see. That makes no sense to me. Can anyone verify this? - -dave -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFSHgpB8JNm+PA+iURAv4FAJwIoazjywY1peHQ4CkVTEYJgJw12wCg6sqX OyA1m6tU5az94Wp03tVD3+Q= =DY3U -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Dailydave mailing list Dailydave () lists immunitysec com http://lists.immunitysec.com/mailman/listinfo/dailydave -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.13.18/506 - Release Date:
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- Forensics: USB fobs Dave Aitel (Oct 31)
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- Re: Forensics: USB fobs Alaric Dailey (Oct 31)
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- Re: Forensics: USB fobs felix-dailydave (Oct 31)
- Re: Forensics: USB fobs William Watson (Oct 31)