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RE: [ISN] Microsoft's Really Hidden Files: A New Look At Forensics. (v2.5b)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Cox)
Sun Oct 28 19:15:48 2001
From: "Ben Cox" <cox@summa-tech.com>
To: "'R. A. Hettinga'" <rah@shipwright.com>,
<cryptography@wasabisystems.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 19:00:34 -0500
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FWIW, this article has been floating around for a while; it's total
hogwash. The "hidden files" are IE's content cache. The files do, in
fact, go away when you clear your cache. (If they didn't, wouldn't you
think your hard disk would fill up really quickly?)
-- Ben
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