full-disclosure - Re: Disk wiping -- An alternate approach?

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Message-ID: <8256.1264441859@localhost>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:50:59 -0500
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To: Bipin Gautam <bipin.gautam@...il.com>
Cc: full-disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Disk wiping -- An alternate approach?

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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