Vista Makes Forensic PC Exam Easier for Lawyers 343
Katharine writes "Jason Krause, a legal affairs writer for the American Bar Association's 'ABA Journal' reports in the July issue that Windows Vista will be a boon for those looking for forensic evidence of wrongdoing on defendants' PC's and a nightmare for defendants who hoped their past computer activities would not be revealed. Krause quotes attorney R. Lee Barrett, 'From a [legal] defense perspective, [Vista] scares me to death. One of the things I have a hard time educating my clients on is the volume of data that's now discoverable.' This is primarily attributable to Shadow Copy, TxF and Instant Search."
Re:Another Use for VMWare (Score:5, Funny)
Mwa aha hah.
Progress? (Score:3, Funny)
Now that's progress.
How is this possible? I reinstall Win every week (Score:5, Funny)
This habit was developed during Win95, WinSE, WinXP SP1, and WinVista Beta
What? There was evidence there? Ooops, sorry... my standard operating procedure wipes the disk once a week.
Re:It's not the function that's the problem (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Another Use for VMWare (Score:3, Funny)
=)
Pime Taradox (Score:2, Funny)
Message to criminals: Use Linux (Score:5, Funny)
Then: you are using Linux, what have you got to hide ?
The next step is: Only criminals use Linux
I have just realised: I am typing this at a Linux box. I had better go down and turn myself in at the cop shop.
Re:Another Use for VMWare (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Another Use for VMWare (Score:1, Funny)
then they'll just torture him till he cracks...which should take about 7 seconds.
problem solved.
Re:Another Use for VMWare (Score:0, Funny)
Easy fix to this (Score:2, Funny)
Obligatory (Score:5, Funny)
Red bead attempting to slide right.
Cancel or Allow?
Is it safe? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Another Use for VMWare (Score:2, Funny)
It can't be ARSEd.
Re:Another Use for VMWare (Score:5, Funny)
Excellent.... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:It's not the function that's the problem (Score:4, Funny)
In the US at least is the 5th Amendment still part of the constitution? If you tell the court that giving out the password is like testifying against yourself, does the 5th still protect the accused? Did it ever really work that way?
Be especially wary of writing on "pads of paper" (Score:2, Funny)
Besides, I much prefer to use an operating system that not only doesn't keep shadow copies of my work, but rather, in a heroic effort to safeguard my privacy, quickly loses the originals ("file not found", "seek error at track nnnnn", etc.).
I say "boo" to Windows Vista. We don't need no stinkin' backups of our data.