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hey peeps
Stilly:
moderator of a porn site eh?
your presence here is most welcome
muzzy:
And how about data that gets swapped out, and placed into a swapfile? Or any other temporary files that get written to disk. The data is still there and you won't know if it's recoverable. If you really need to keep stuff on your personal computer secret, you need to encrypt your whole damn system.
There are third party tools for encryption, but unfortunately booting from encrypted drives tends to be an issue with them. Commercial solutions are available which make this possible, or depending on what you do with your system, you could just have a bootable windows livecd and then have all drives encrypted. Nothing gets stored on the cd and everything'll work fine. There are obvious limitations to this approach, such as difficulty of installing new software. Someone should really research what would happen if all registry hives were to be remounted after boot, to replace the boottime read-only registry with one stored on the encrypted disk.
Either way, full disk encryption is the only way to ensure no data leaks out, and even then some encryption implementations have weaknesses. For example, truecrypt is vulnerable to watermarking attacks, certain specially crafted watermarks can be detected through the encryption layer. That might be really nasty in some cases, but it cannot be used to detect just anything. The data needs to have a certain very special pattern.
As for just removing the data from the system, I wouldn't completely trust it.
PS. Are you feeling guilty about moderating a porn site and don't want your family to find out or what's the deal? Or is the porn so bad quality that you'd be ashamed if someone found out? :)
WMD:
I doubt he's concerned enough about it to encrypt his hard drive. The "IE hidden files" are a LOT easier to find, and thus require less motivation to discover. This, he's probably concerned about.
jtpenrod:
And how about data that gets swapped out, and placed into a swapfile? Or any other temporary files that get written to disk. The data is still there and you won't know if it's recoverable. If you really need to keep stuff on your personal computer secret, you need to encrypt your whole damn system.
No, Muzzy, that isn't the point. These so-called "secret" files never expire. The damn things just keep growing and growing, taking up considerable HD space. I once saw a Win 95 install that had over 100MB's worth of this crap, going back some five years. :eek: That's just plain rediculous, and indicative of bad programming.
There is no excuse for that. :p
-=Q=-:
thanks for the replys again
muzzy I read your thread and my head exploded [lol] thats gettin to crazy
but I appreciate your efforts.
I am not ashamed at the position I hold there,and for now my pc is password
protected from family members,they won't be able to get in,but someone with extensive knowledge could get in.
WMD - that is exactly what i want to do I tried shortly to search for the files with the dos mode through windows with out rebooting ( using XP) it said there is no such file lol I did not try any further than that so far.
I don't use the PC at the office for this shit at all its only at home never did not even once. its just that I like to be in control over my PC and the shit thats in it.
thanks for replying fellas
I have a password list to get into porn sites that was cracked with access diver.I would like to post them to show my appreciation :):thumbup: thats if its OK
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