Win-XP denounced as terrorism tool

[s4]

[QUOTEURL=http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22281.html]A computer forensics specialist warns that default security features in Windows-XP might bring civilization to its knees at the hands of pedophiles, tax cheats, and, of course, international terrorists.

Forensics outfit New Technologies' President, Michael Anderson, a former Fed himself, is claiming that the secure file-wipe feature in Win-XP Pro is going to "make it impossible for federal agents and law enforcement to find and reconstruct digital evidence buried on computers, particularly those seized from terrorists," according to an article by Network World. [my emphasis] [/QUOTEURL]

Geez. These people...

 

[a13antichrist]

I'm sure similar things were said about cars and TV at one stage too.. and especially the computer itself.. I'm sure at least some of you are aware that the PIII is illegal in China as it is classified as a supercomputer....

 

[s4]

There have been programs on the web for quite some time that completely wipe files. There is a shareware program called Evidence Eliminator that can be downloaded from download.com. I think this guy has some other motivation for saying that other than his concern about terrorism.

 

[Neo]

I never knew that about china a13. Very weird. As for being able to wipe evidence from your machine well, Too bad... Its my machine and i can do it