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Re: Disk wiping -- An alternate approach?


From: Bipin Gautam <bipin.gautam () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:44:23 +0545

Ok, then why not encode the same keywords that these TOOLS look for
with your Markov chains idea and mix it to wipe a 1 TB hdd with alice
chatter-bot idea ?

Again this is all theory :P

On 1/25/10, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:
On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:07:57 +0545, Bipin Gautam said:

It would be intellectual uphill challenge for the EXAMINERS given that
someone may have to shift 1 terabyte of data (how many bytes?:) mostly
by HUMAN RESOURCE in hope for a ___ in the haystack..........

You *do* realize that there exist numerous tools to automate this scanning,
so "human resource" means "select the search terms, hit enter, and check
back
after lunch".

http://www.microsoft.com/industry/government/solutions/cofee/default.aspx
http://www.guidancesoftware.com/computer-forensics-fraud-investigation-software.htm

That's the sort of stuff your disk will most likely be hit with.  The state
of the art is stuff like "find all erased e-mail from X to Y regarding the
McClellan situation".


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