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[FYI] Win-XP denounced as terrorism tool
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- Subject: [FYI] Win-XP denounced as terrorism tool
- From: "Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>
- Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 20:41:29 +0200
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22281.html
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Win-XP denounced as terrorism tool
By Thomas C Greene in Washington
Posted: 17/10/2001 at 07:43 GMT
A computer forensics specialist warns that default security features
in Windows-XP might bring civilization to its knees at the hands of
pedophiles, tax cheats, and, of course, international terrorists.
Forensics outfit New Technologies' President, Michael Anderson, a
former Fed himself, is claiming that the secure file-wipe feature in
Win-XP Pro is going to "make it impossible for federal agents and law
enforcement to find and reconstruct digital evidence buried on
computers, particularly those seized from terrorists," according to
an article by Network World. [my emphasis]
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