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Win-XP as terrorist tool story contradicted | |
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| Time: 08:46 EST/13:46 GMT | News Source: The Register | Posted By: Byron Hinson | ||
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Computer forensics specialist Michael Anderson, who we suspected of exaggerating the threat of Win-XP's secure file-wipe feature for personal gain, contacted us to contradict our reading of his position. Briefly, the forensics outfit (New Technologies) president had gone on record denouncing the secure file-wipe feature in Win-XP Pro as a feature that will "make it impossible for federal agents and law enforcement to find and reconstruct digital evidence buried on computers, particularly those seized from terrorists." He recommends that the US Department of Justice (DoJ) force a delay of the 'XP launch until law enforcement can figure out a dodge against it. | ||
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| #1 By 135 (64.214.62.180) at 10/22/2001 6:05:37 PM |
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http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q298/0/09.ASP
The Cipher tool from Microsoft will wipe the harddrive on Windows 2000 machines. I assume that this is the same functionality being talked about with XP. This tool came about because of criticism Microsoft received that files which were marked to be encrypted on the local filesystem using EFS still left their unencrypted copies lying on the blocks of the harddrive. The Cipher tool will go through and 0 out any unused blocks on an NTFS partition. This is a dumb argument. It's like outlawing rubber gloves because they can be used to hide your fingerprints at the scene of the crime. |
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