I’m not familiar with Cyberscrub. I’m a little familiar with CCleaner. It depends on what you’re trying to accomplish. If your goal is to make it harder for websites to track you or to prevent other people in your house from seeing your browsing activity, these tools will probably fit the bill. If you’re trying to protect yourself from a thorough forensic examination, they may not do the trick.
If you want to delete a few specific files where you’re keeping notes on your plan for world domination, you have to be aware of the limitations of the tool.
With CCleaner secure file delete, for example, the fact that you used CCleaner is readily apparent because it changes the file name to a sring of Zs, like ZZZZZZZZ.ZZZ. And while CCleaner will find and overwrite the clusters currently in use by the file, it won’t necessarily be able to find clusters previously used by the file, clusters used by temporary files generated when the file was edited, etc. Also, at least some references to the file will often be left in the registry or other places. These are things that could be found by a forensic exam but not by your roommate.
So, do you not want your wife to know you like legal, but non-mainsteam porn? Something like CCleaner will probably be enough. Are you tying to hide your illegal porn from the FBI? Not gonna do the trick.
If you are tying to hide data from the law or from an opposing party in a civil suit, wiping may not be a good idea, though. IANAL, but as I understand it, some courts have held that data that has been wiped deliberately can be presumed to have been disadvantageous to the party that wiped it. I have a cite for that somewhere on my PC, but not on my phone. I’ll try to dig it up when I’m back at a real computer, unless a passing lawyer can chime in first.
Yeah, true enough. I think the NIST document calls out some of that. It depends on the type of device and how you’re issuing the write instructions. That article was from 2011, and I think more recent wiping tools do a better job of handling SSDs. Ultimately you have to verify your technique by doing something like viewing the subject media with a forensic tool (there are good free ones) to see what’s still recoverable.
Not forgetting the white supremacy: the alt-right loves them some white Christian Russia.
ETA–okay, you did say ‘nationalistic,’ but it’s still worth highlighting the whiteness of it all.
When you are aware of an ongoing investigation that is somewhat close to you… and when you’re a close adviser to the president… isn’t there some requirement that obligates you to maintain all electronic records?
President’s aides are official positions, they get paychecks. Jared is officially his son-in-law. They could claim with a straight face that he is not included. Most likely, already have.
ETA: OK, not completely “never.” Apparently he did have 3 tweets by 2014, which were deleted sometime between then and October 2016 (which is the next time the Wayback Machine cached his Twitter account.)
Yep
“White White White is the color of our country”… to paraphrase from my favorite movie, " The Producers" ( the first one, not the unwatchable POS remake)
But “White” is usually a dog-whistle. Like when Trump says NATO is obsolete and needs to focus more on terrorists - that translates to “stop picking on the white country Russia and start picking on brown people”.
Of course when he says stuff like this it’s because the Bannonites are whispering in his ear. I bet if you got him alone in a room and asked him “what exactly is NATO?”, he couldn’t tell you.
“@marcorubio suffered from Russian active measures during the election, Clinton Watts tells Senate Intel Committee. Rubio looked startled.”
This is, of course, for the Senate Intelligence Committee hearings today. Clinton is testifying that the Russians meddled with the GOP primary, specifically naming Rubio as a target.
This may actually get the GOP interested in this topic…
