![]() Some of these programs, such as Webroot Software's Window Washer and CyberScrub's Privacy Suite, are marketed as tools for protecting people's privacy. Not surprisingly, there's also a growing number of products on the market designed to frustrate these experts. These days, it seems, whenever there's a chance that somebody has deleted a file to hide evidence of wrongdoing, some forensics expert is standing by to recover that file for a fee. Increasingly, disk forensic tools such as Guidance Software's EnCase and AccessData's Forensic Toolkit are not used just for solving crimes: Forensic tools are fast becoming a staple of civil lawsuits between corporations and in disciplinary proceedings against employees. And I'm hardly the only person with this interest. Regular readers of this column know of my obsession with recovering deleted information from used hard drives, USB tokens and other kinds of storage media.
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