Computer Forensics and Data Passed
Speaker: Simson Garfinkel , CSAIL, MIT
Date: October 18 2004
Time: 4:10PM to 5:00PM
Location: Star conference room (32-D463)
Contact: Louis-Philippe Morency, 617-253-4278, lmorency@csail.mit.edu
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Computer Forensics and Data Passed
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What I found on 235 used hard drives.
Between 1998 and 2003, Simson Garfinkel purchased 200 used hard drives on eBay. Analyzing these hard drives, he found a treasure trove of personal and business confidential information—information he never should have seen.
In this talk, Garfinkel will discuss the information he found and why it was findable. He'll give a brief survey of how filesystems lay information on the hard drive, how and when that information is overwritten, and what tools you can use to perform forensic analysis and properly sanitize media. Finally, he'll show how the results of this research are applicable to digital cameras, flash memory, MP3 players, Palm Pilots, and a wide variety of other systems.
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