Posted on 06/07/2015 9:46:26 AM PDT by TaxPayer2000
I have Firefox configured to forget everything: passwords, history, cache, etc. when it shuts down.
I also use the "secure" option when emptying my trash. It overwrites the file with random data.
A defrag is run automatically every night.
About once a week, a task automatically runs to overwrite all the empty space on my disk drive.
This is all basic security measures, to prevent private information from lurking on my computer in places I don't know about, and to keep it running in top performance.
What's the penalty for not knowing a preposition is something to never end a sentence with?
Heard that erasing your Google search history merely flags Google to archive it. Yea, you think it’s off your machine but they have preserved it.
One of these days...One of these days they are going to hit the too much button..
Once again, the idiocy of nondiscrimination is demonstrated.
One: “Khairullozhon Matanov is a 24-year-old former cab driver from Quincy, Massachusetts”. No, he’s not “from Quincy, Massachusetts”. He’s FROM Kyrgyzstan. He came on a “student” visa in 2010, dropped out, and later received asylum, I presume by committing perjury. He happens to be living in the United States and consorting with enemy soldiers.
Two: This fact ALONE is sufficient to return him to Bishkek, where there are plenty of mosques for him to pray at. Dropping him from a helicopter hovering over the Gogol Street mosque would provide a salutary lesson.
Three: If the idiot Bush had concentrated on removing Muslims who do not belong here and preventing more from arriving, none of this would be happening. But, because he is an idiot, he took at face value the lying complaints that Muslims living in the US (and taking advantage of our generosity) were a persecuted minority in need of special protection and special favors.
Four: Since it is presumably provable that his asylum case was fraudulent, the whole expensive legal process could be short-circuited by his immediate removal to Guantanamo.
Sure, if you've committed a crime, like lying to the FBI, and your history contains evidence of that crime and you are clearing it to hide that evidence.
Of course, it's in the British press, since the US media simply reprints or broadcasts press releases from his lawyer.
While dropping out of Quincy College (an "open admission commuter school" with an "international students program") and driving a cab, he managed to accumulate (or was given) $71 000 which he wired to various overseas locations.
I bet you anything that a proper investigation of this "international students program" and this open admissions junior college would turn up MANY persons of interest.
Anyone unclear on the double standards existing these days?
Only if you're gullible enough to believe the title of the article and the writer's assertions.
You can only be held legally liable/accountable if you're under a court order to preserve and present data. The fact he was charged with the "crime" of deleting data that was not under a court order or subpoena will quickly get thrown out of court.
I agree that digital records should be treated much the same as formerly-used paper records. It is now and always has been a crime to burn evidence of criminal activity.
Why should records with the exact same information be treated differently simply because they’re in a computer instead of a file drawer?
I think a simple way around this would be to set your browser to simply not keep a history, even in a single session. That would be the digital equivalent of not writing anything down. If there’s never a record, you can’t be charged with destroying it.
“If the Democrat Communists who run the US government knew how much time I spend on Free Republic....well....”
IF they knew? They already know. I think that all FReepers are on the administration’s ‘enemies list’.
This guy must have had a terrible lawyer who failed to inform him that he cannot be prosecuted as long as he claims he was only deleting items about yoga and wedding dresses.
And in saying so in public, confessed to a felony! Shhhhh Power Surge! Yeah that’s the ticket. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it!
You are correct on both points.
However, destroying the whole hard drive is not essential. Opening the case and destroying only the disks is all that is required but the fire has to be REALLY hot to burn the disks. They are metal.
A data recovery company somewhere in the DC area recovered data from a hard drive that had been severely burned in an office fire.
This is the Nation, a hardcore Marxist magazine.
Do people not know that anything it publishes is distorted propaganda.
I would invite to read an interesting article posted yesterday that states that "60 percent of new nonviolent, non-drug offenses lacked a criminal-intent requirement adequate to protect Americans who engaged in conduct that they did not know was illegal or otherwise wrongful from unjust criminal punishment."
It also indicated that "There are at least 5,000 federal criminal laws, with 10,000-300,000 regulations that can be enforced criminally."
“What’s the penalty for not knowing a preposition is something to never end a sentence with?”
Well, I do not know what the penalty is but whatever penalty Kennedy gets, YOU GET IT, TOO!
“What’s the penalty for not knowing a preposition is something with which to never end a sentence?”
ROFL Sorry, just doing my job! ;-)
You can’t get busted for destroying what you didn’t know what evidence. If you could we wouldn’t need trash collectors because nobody would ever get to get rid of anything.
When I replace my hard drives I take apart the old ones and remove the actual metal disks. I then use a pair of long handle needle nose pliers to hold each disk and melt it with a MAP gas torch.
“When I replace my hard drives I take apart the old ones and remove the actual metal disks. I then use a pair of long handle needle nose pliers to hold each disk and melt it with a MAP gas torch.”
That’ll do it. MAPP gas gets hot enough.
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