• Corpus ID: 2834442

Secure Deletion and the Effectiveness of Evidence Elimination Software

@inproceedings{Innes2005SecureDA,
  title={Secure Deletion and the Effectiveness of Evidence Elimination Software},
  author={Simon Innes},
  booktitle={Australian Computer, Network \& Information Forensics Conference},
  year={2005}
}
  • Simon Innes
  • Published in
    Australian Computer, Network…
     2005
  • Computer Science
This paper will discuss and analyse the different methods of wiping media to make them forensically clean. This will include naming the tools, running them on a device and seeing what the device logically looks like after it has completed. It will then follow on to analyse the effectiveness of software that is designed to eliminate evidence (such as web browser history) from a computer. This analysis will take place on a small FAT32 partition running Windows 98. The test environment will be… 
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