Re: HIDING PERSONAL INFO ON COMPUTER

From: Bill Crocker (billcrocker@ameritech.net)
Date: 10/10/02 

From: "Bill Crocker" <billcrocker@ameritech.net>
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 20:54:07 GMT

I've always wondered about products with claims like Evidence Eliminator.
What would prevent it from being like a sting operation...appearing to hide,
or remove all your secrets, then send them to the authorities?

Bill Crocker

"Mark H. Wood" <mwood@mhw.ULib.IUPUI.Edu> wrote in message
news:ao1n9g$uf9$2@rainier.uits.indiana.edu...
> Don't do it yourself; Microsoft keeps spawning new hidden places to
> squirrel away sensitive personal info. There are a number of products
> which claim to do a fairly good job of finding and zapping this stuff.
> The only name I can recall is "Evidence Eliminator". I have *not*
> tried it and cannot testify to its effectiveness.
>
> --
> Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mwood@IUPUI.Edu
> MS Windows *is* user-friendly, but only for certain values of "user".

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